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April 25, 2007
Dork Memories
Positively brilliant! Stephen Lynch's ode to Dungeons & Dragons. Made me think of The Gamers by Dead Gentlemen Productions.
Perhaps I'm an aberration <.< (or maybe just lucky), because my RPG experiences buck the women-less stereotype of gaming geekdom. There have almost always been multiple girl gamers in my game groups. Woot! Sure, there were the rare cases of GM girlfriends, who leveraged their RL relationships to net in-game benefits, but those were thankfully the exceptions. The majority of my girl gamer friends are awesome, wicked, imaginative, even evil role-players. :)
Not sure exactly why I've been lucky in this, but I'm happy for it. Hmm... *theorizes wildly* ...maybe it's me. Yeah! Maybe I'm just that hawt... or something... and they just can't help but flock to my side! :P (I'll go with that.) Well whether or not I am, I know some of them certainly are! Lucky gamer me!
Posted by Tacitus at April 25, 2007 11:14 AM
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Tacitus, I assume I'm in the blogroll because of the Director conection, but I just put up a D&D-related story of my own the other day:
http://www.darrelplant.com/blog_item.php?ItemRef=674
Posted by: darrelplant at May 10, 2007 04:36 PM
Yes, sir, your assumption is correct. And I enjoyed your D&D story very much. :) Do you still play? Thanks for the note.
Posted by: Tacitus at May 10, 2007 09:20 PM
I haven't for years. My game-playing friends moved away long, long ago and apart from a brief return to gaming in the late '80s, I haven't played much of anything, RPG, board-game, or otherwise.
However, I do still have almost all of my stuff from those years, including an original white-box version of D&D from about 1976, a huge selection of RPGs from the early '80s, and a lot of Avalon Hill and GDW war games and board games. Plus, magazines like "Autoduel Quarterly" (in which I had the first letter in the first issue) and "The Dragon" (my first professional publication was in issue #29).
So long ago!
Posted by: darrelplant at May 11, 2007 11:58 AM
I was introduced to D&D in 1980, and played regularly all this time until about two-and-a-half years ago when I moved away from my game-playing friends. My old gang seems to have gone their separate ways since. Apparently, I was the glue that kept us together; that or they were too lazy to find another place to game, as I always played host.
And I too still have all my old game books; stuff spanning the 80's and 90's from TSR, GDW, FASA, Steven Jackson Games, R. Talsorian, White Wolf, etc. as well as a selection of Avalon Hill war games (loved Squad Leader). My first copy of D&D was a later printing of the 1979 Box Set (contained Module B2: The Keep on the Borderlands). WOw, I may still have a copy of the first issue of ADQ, come to think of it. I know I still have my first issue of "The Dragon" (#34). I am such a pack rat.
I myself remain professionally unpublished. If I think about it, I don't know the first thing about getting published really. I've always been a lurker, a wall-flower, a social chameleon; never certain that anything I have to offer would be of any real value to the global community, which is silly, because I am a virtual fount of esoteric knowledge (aren't we all?), able to formulate coherent sentences in a single pen-stroke (barring spaces and punctuation of course), as well as a skilled programmer with a talent for teaching. I just lack follow-through, or an entrepreneurial spirit, or something. But I digress.
Ah, D&D... Whiling away hours with friends. The laughter. The adventures. Those were halcyon days. By the way, what was the subject of your article in "The Dragon" #29?
Posted by: Tacitus at May 12, 2007 10:07 PM