I haven't played in 20+ years but I can't seem to bring myself to throw them out. I was wondering who else had this problem ( roll 2x20 sided vs D&D talk) and yes I am a geek.
Do you stil have your D&D Dice
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There's a blast from the past. I was never really hard core into D&D but did play. I remember the cool little lead figures you could buy. There was a store in one of the local malls that carried all that stuff and used to love going there. 
There was another role playing game (who's name I can't recall at the moment) which had a spy theme to it that I used to play a lot. Same format as D&D and think it was also made by TSR.
There was another role playing game (who's name I can't recall at the moment) which had a spy theme to it that I used to play a lot. Same format as D&D and think it was also made by TSR.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I know the name of the game you're talking about: Top Secret SI. I actually never played it, but I did play D&D for a while.gravitas said:
A friend got me to play D&D one time, never got into it, never bought any of the paraphernalia. Twenty years ago I was more into video games. I do still have a couple of my old consoles and lots of cartridges packed away in a box even though I haven't played them in about 15 years.
Yeahhhhh, I think they're still in a drawer somewhere. Me an one buddy would make up our own role playing games. I was always the hero who got laid alot. Ahhhh to be 12 years old again.
Wow I used to play too. I call it pen and paper RPG since we've all gravitated to computer and console RPG games. I was into Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. I guess playing late 80's and early 90's SSI games like Pools of Radiance and Champions of Krynn turned me toward RPG's on the computer. Man, memories from high school!
Only game where you can put a pavilion tent and a 40 foot ladder in your pocket and go adventure.
Only game where you can put a pavilion tent and a 40 foot ladder in your pocket and go adventure.
I played Traveller, the SCI-FI RPG. I read "Rendezvous with Rama" and the Gateway saga series and other SCI-FI greats. I dig science, not fantasy. I thought all the medieval shit with the elves, dwarves and magic spells was for fags.
But RPGs weren't my thing really. Instead, I spent hours playing Advanced Squad Leader. Those 1000 page manuals with the decimal system notation and reading armor penetration tables for the Panzer IV.... I WAS IN FUCKING WEHRMACHT HEAVEN!
But RPGs weren't my thing really. Instead, I spent hours playing Advanced Squad Leader. Those 1000 page manuals with the decimal system notation and reading armor penetration tables for the Panzer IV.... I WAS IN FUCKING WEHRMACHT HEAVEN!
Oh yeah! AD&D (2nd ed.), Runequest, Third Reich, Axis & Allies, Succesion Wars, Risk (of course!). I still keep in touch with the old D&D crew even though we're all too busy to get together very often. I still like strategy games but play them on the computer mostly these days. I wish somebody would write some new turn-based games: I still find myself playing the old ones like Civ. II, Panzer General III and M.O.O. II the most though the Total War series isn't bad.
Wow, a blast from the past!
Cheers! WS.
Wow, a blast from the past!
Cheers! WS.
D&D is the best game ever
I used to play D&D regularly for about 5 years (Usually weekly). The quality of the game depended totally on the quality (and imagination) of the Dungeon Master. I have observed games where players would go up 2 or 3 levels evry game (boring). In our games it could take 5-6 games to up a level and there was always a real threat of death. I have lost 3 characters in one game (2 in one day). Favourite type of character: half-orc cleric assassin (usually lawful evil), as a cleric he could use any armour and as an assassin he could use any weapon: thus, he would look like an ordinary fighter.
I used to play D&D regularly for about 5 years (Usually weekly). The quality of the game depended totally on the quality (and imagination) of the Dungeon Master. I have observed games where players would go up 2 or 3 levels evry game (boring). In our games it could take 5-6 games to up a level and there was always a real threat of death. I have lost 3 characters in one game (2 in one day). Favourite type of character: half-orc cleric assassin (usually lawful evil), as a cleric he could use any armour and as an assassin he could use any weapon: thus, he would look like an ordinary fighter.
RUNEQUEST was excellent actually. If I was forced to play fantasy, it would be that. The most researched and well thought out RPG system was their's, even better than Traveller.Walk Softly said:
THIRD REICH: I still have the original box from my teen years. I loved that game, but never got Avalon Hill's computer version which I heard was pretty good. The "Operational Art of War" was a damned good computer game that modelled many aspects of WW2 similarly to 3rd Reich.
TOBRUK: another Avalon Hill fave. The shell trajectory tables were astounding.
FLAT TOP: great board game about the Pacific's carrier wars. I think the maps layed out to be 10 feet square. It got rebranded into another game and perhaps even a computer game, but I lost track.
RISK et al: too beer and pretzels for me.
ADVANCED SQUAD LEADER: the king of all tactical WW2 games. The amazing detail! A buttoned down King Tiger slowly and easily treading through town with flamethrower burning up wooden buildings full of soldiers, while they aimlessly pilleted the armor with semi-automatic rifles to absolutely no effect. And as the soldiers flee, a waiting half track lays down a suppressing fire while enemy soldiers beside it target shoot them at will. A nebelwerfer deploys 10' high thick smoke behind a half hedge while a squad sneeks through with a heavy machine gun as a sniper tries to pick them off in the distance. Fuck I love that game.
I'm just an old wargamer at heart. Love the strategy, love the tactics.
Ha ha ha, I don't think me and my high-school buddies were the typical 'dweebs and dorks' although we did play D&D.LonelyGhost said:i used to stuff you 'dweebs and dorks' into lockers in high school ...
There were 3 bullies in school who everyone else hated, because they were constantly shoving people into lockers, giving people wedgies, starting fights, etc. One day the 3 of them decided to pick on one of the guys in my D&D group. He ended up with a black eye, a cut lip, and a whole lot of bruises.
We were understandably pissed off at this, so we tricked the 3 bullies into meeting us in the woods behind the school field before school, so we could give them a taste of their own medicine. Long story short, we beat the living hell out of them, tied them to trees, and pelted them with mud.
When we came back to untie them at lunch time, they were bawling like babies, and one of them had pissed his pants. They had to go right past the school to get to their car, and because it was lunch time, everyone was hanging out outside the school, so just about everyone in school saw these guys crying, covered in mud and blood. After that, they would all run away any time they saw one of us.
Anyway, the point of this is that when I was in high school, us dweebs and dorks used to beat the hell out of bullies like you!
The subject in question is not unfamiliar to me... interestingly enough, there is an upcoming MMORP based on the Firefly series...
Dweebs & Dorks... ya know, outside of elementary, the "bullies" tended to bring weapons to school...
Holy crap, funny question. I was just doing some cleaning up yesterday and came across a box that somehow always gets moved with me when I move residences. I never seem to open it up until now.
Contents:
1 x 100-sided (almost tennis ball sized. I remember buying this one. Seemed oddly weighted to come up with 100 more often then the odds dictated).
2 x 20 sided
4 x 10 sided
4 x 8 sided
10 x 6 sided
6 x 4 sided
crap, I'm good to go, get the boys over, pull out the AD&D set (still have some modules) or maybe Roleplayer or Car wars....oh the nerd list goes on.
Seems like a lot of my friends (who am I kidding, I don't have a lot of friends, let's just say my best friend and my brother) have moved to online games such as Neverwinter nights. Easier to get together online than it is to find a nice table that we could all sit around.
Contents:
1 x 100-sided (almost tennis ball sized. I remember buying this one. Seemed oddly weighted to come up with 100 more often then the odds dictated).
2 x 20 sided
4 x 10 sided
4 x 8 sided
10 x 6 sided
6 x 4 sided
crap, I'm good to go, get the boys over, pull out the AD&D set (still have some modules) or maybe Roleplayer or Car wars....oh the nerd list goes on.
Seems like a lot of my friends (who am I kidding, I don't have a lot of friends, let's just say my best friend and my brother) have moved to online games such as Neverwinter nights. Easier to get together online than it is to find a nice table that we could all sit around.
If I had known how many people there were I would have added a bonus question like
7th level magic user casting magic missle, how many d4's do you need to calculate total damage in one roll.
One nice thing about the way life works out is most of the locker shover guys work for the guy that works for the guy that gets coffee for the guy that was the geek in high school
7th level magic user casting magic missle, how many d4's do you need to calculate total damage in one roll.
One nice thing about the way life works out is most of the locker shover guys work for the guy that works for the guy that gets coffee for the guy that was the geek in high school
Yup, the bullies in my story always carried knives (switchblades usually). Unfortunately for them, me and my buddies knew that (hell, the whole school knew that, since they were constantly threatening people with their knives - although they never actually used them), so we upped the ante a little. A guy with a knife is no match for a few guys with aluminum baseball bats.CJ Tylers said:
