All this talk from the 'veterans' is making me feel young now. (8-)
I played my first RPG when I was 13 (in 1986!). Experimented with D&D, the
whole Palladium system, GURPS, and some homebrews before settling on Shadowrun
2nd ed. My first miniatures game was with Warhammer 40k, at University. About
a year later, I was introduced to FT, and I've never looked back since then. I
also do the wargame thing.
My favourite, even though it's dated, is "Air & Armour" from West End.
Of course, all the teens must feel really young now that all the old
people are out and about. (8-)
J.
Yup. I started in the Star Wars RPG about 6 years ago or so, and have been
hooked since, but I do feel like quite the newbie. It's funny, though. I've
been playing for 6 years, and GMing just as long, as I was introduced to the
game by my best friend, who had played it with some cousins of his, and was
going off of the rules from memory. (needless to say, it was one odd game)
Then, being the poor teens we were, we built a patchwork of rules from bits
posted on the 'net. We played for a year or so this way. Man, it was awesome
when we had 18 skill die instead of the proper 7. <shrugs & grins> Then I
finally coughed up the cash for the rulebook. It was a nice pretty hardback
blue book with Darth Vader's picture on the cover. It's still probably my most
prized RPG book. Anyway, that started an addiction I've fed since. Maybe
someday I'll be able to look at crates of old books and reminice like you
guys.;o)
God bless,
- Buddy
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Heh, when i was young, we banged rocks together and pretended they was
cavalry! And we liked it that way.
1971 CHESS 1978. AH Bismarck 1979 D&D
Ye gods.
-Mike Wikan
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> Of course, all the teens must feel really young now that all the old
Oh, you had it good. When I was young, we had to use bits of jagged glass for
dice and write our characters on goat skin if we were lucky.
84 Black box Traveller + High Guard (quickly followed by D&D and a slew
of others)
> -----Original Message-----
In a message dated 6/8/99 12:33:27 PM EST, MWikan@mailhost.accolade.com
writes:
<< Heh, when i was young, we banged rocks together and pretended they was
cavalry! And we liked it that way.
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We used cocnut halves on a wooden tray clip clop clip clop. Monty Python
stole it from us.
> In a message dated 6/8/99 12:42:41 PM EST, nathanp@MICROSOFT.com writes:
<< Oh, you had it good. When I was young, we had to use bits of jagged glass
for dice and write our characters on goat skin if we were lucky.
> [quoted text omitted]
Oh yeah! We had to play in the heat of summer using wax tablets for character
sheets and jagged glass you were luck. We had to bite holes in our wrists and
count blood drops from the first wave of our bleeding arm!
Please stop; I started gaming Risk in the mid-60's, did some Avalon Hill
and
Rocco-tanks-in-the-dirt in the late 60's, Diplomacy and some D&D(never
did take to RPGs) in the early 70's.
Did my first space ship gaming with Zocchi's Alien Space and Star Fleet Battle
Manual(not terrible) and Superior's Starfleet Wars(was terrible). Had to wait
entirely too long to find FTII!
I'm not the grand old man of gaming, but reminiscing for time periods that
include when my daughter started sure can make me feel it!
The_Beast
> Oh, you had it good. When I was young, we had to use bits of jagged
> In a message dated 6/8/99 12:59:34 PM EST, jon@gzero.dungeon.com writes:
<<
Eee, goat-skin, sheer LUXURY! Our games club was forty seven of us in
t'
shoe-box in t' middle o' t' road.....
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Fifty-tree o' us living in a matchbox at the bottom of the scummy pond
outside the coal mines. We had it rough!
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Ground Zero Games wrote:
> >Oh, you had it good. When I was young, we had to use bits of jagged
You mean you had *roads*??? Must a' bin th' rich part o' th' valley .
. .
[ducking]
In a message dated 6/8/99 1:04:48 PM EST, Hauptman@concentric.net
writes:
<<
You mean you had *roads*??? Must a' bin th' rich part o' th' valley .
. .
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Well, we call'd 'em roads. Heard about you guys in the valley havin' sich
things, but we never ackshully saw one. Mostly we just hopped from stump to
stump where they cleared the timber and called that a road cause we didn't
have to crawl through the thorns to get to the mine.
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, j a c wrote:
> Ok ok, I have to drop my old fart line here as well.
Hey, you young whippersnapper - you don't even qualify <g>.
[snip]
> When you were 13? Ha, I was 13 in 1974!
Remember, boys and girls, Cybercoot-ness starts at 40!
In a message dated 6/8/99 1:43:45 PM EST, journeyman2000@juno.com
writes:
<<
When you were 13? Ha, I was 13 in 1974!
Snicker, we had to use little sticks for troops, rocks stolen from our
neighbors cave for vehicles, and used a pair of little mice for dice, put em
in a box with 6 holes and see which one they ran out of.
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When I was thirteen it was 1960 HA!
We used to use mice just like that, but we had to eat 'em one winter.
> Oh, you had it good. When I was young, we had to use bits of jagged
Ha! We had to play Ancients because the Napoleonics weren't done yet.
In a message dated 6/8/99 6:25:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
> laserlight@cwix.com writes:
<< Ha! We had to play Ancients because the Napoleonics weren't done yet.
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Heck nobody'd thought of asking Nappy if he even wanted to play when I got
started!
Amazingly similar... AH in '68, D&D in '76, Tractics, SPI, Traveller, etc
Still have my first mini... Archive Conan and Red Sonia set.
Michael Brown
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My folks are still under the impression that all "you gamers" are teenagers,
and are surprised that most gamers I know are 25 or older.:o) (many 35 or
older...)
God bless,
- Buddy
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> -MWS- wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, j a c wrote:
Oh, good. 185 days to go.
Ok ok, I have to drop my old fart line here as well.
1967 chess Bismark? heheheheh, I started with Jutland (year unknown) Battle of
the Bulge (again, year unknown) 1978? (Ogre) 1977 (Traveller) 1980 (SFB)
When you were 13? Ha, I was 13 in 1974!
Snicker, we had to use little sticks for troops, rocks stolen from our
neighbors cave for vehicles, and used a pair of little mice for dice, put em
in a box with 6 holes and see which one they ran out of.
JimC