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Thank you.Hidden away somewhere I still have a purple Crown Royal bag full of oddly-shaped dice.
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He's a Wisconsin native, you know. Makes sense...D and D fits well in the midwest winter landscape. I played a lot about twenty-five years ago. When I walk past the new D and D displays in hobby shops (my kids like hobby shops) I can't believe how complex it's become...there are about twenty manuals now, if not more, I swear.
D and D, to me, is all about the conversation and camaradarie. I loved playing...wish I hadn't grown too cool for it, but then again, girls actually wanted to talk to me, living ones, so I guess I had a reason for putting away that monster manual...
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Charissa, a gal after my own heart. :) Never played (they tried to teach me so many times). But every guy I dated from high school to marriage was a player. Even now, my husband's e-mail address has "paladin" in it. heh.
I made the boys roll me up a character once (haveing read nearly all of the Dragonlance books, I wanted to give it a go), but they spent all their time yammering about everything but D&D that we didn't ever acomplish anything! I got bored and went back to my books...
I used to love just going through all the rulebooks? character books? just to read about the different gods and goddesses and classes and such. Good times.
I'm 31 and still know the guys I played with all through high school. We'd go to Eric's house after school on Friday, play all weekend and go to school together on Monday. It's funny how my parents never worried about me spending so much time unsupervised in a basement full of boys... of course they were D&D boys so they probably still haven't figured out how to kiss a girl anyway. When I came home from running errands the other day my eleven-year-old son and two of our neighbor boys were sitting in my living room surrounded by D&D books. "Will you be our DM mom?" So, another generation of game geeks begins. Gygax would be thrilled to know that the imaginations he valued so much are still being stimulated by the game he helped create.
Wow...a mom who can be DM is going to be way popular...then everyone can play. That's perfect. You rock, Clackamas.
Yeah, I'm the cool mom. The boy doesn't know how lucky he has it. BTW, there are WAY more than 20 manuals in each of second and third editions, and 4th ed is on it's way soon. I don't even want to know how much money I spent on D&D stuff in my teens and early twenties. I'm really hoping that my kid will be fine with the books we already have and not try to convert to 4th ed. If he does he's going to have to find a way of earning his own money. I'm not willing to count D&D supplies toward either my book or board game budgets... time to start mowing lawns=o)
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I never played... my parents thought it was evil or whatever. But when I was in 7th grade I read a series of books about a role playing game like D&D but not D&D. It seems like maybe they actually, magically, became those characters and they had all sorts of adventures that were medieval fantasy type stuff. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
Don't know your series, but Andre Norton wrote Quag Keep in the mid/late 70's, and you've pretty much described the plot.
Hmm, I don't remember the title, but it's possible that was it. I really liked it, whatever it was.
Wowza, it looks like there are a lot of really similar books.http://browse.barnesandnoble.com/brow...
Those are books based on the games & modules; the two began to feed off of each other in the 80's. I think the they-were-playing-the-game-oops-they're-living-the-game plots are part of a much narrower sub-genre.But I still have no idea of the series you were thinking of so I'll stop yammering now.
It could be Quag Keep. I don't think I'd ever know for sure, even if I re-read them.
Sarah, I read about the first 9 or 10 of the Dragonlance books and liked them. I really loved the first 4 or so. Eventually they begin to be written by different people and it goes down the drain from there in my opinion. But, Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy are the first three.
Do they sound like what I described? Because the "Dragonlance" title feels more familiar than "Quag Keep." But that might be because Dragon is a more familiar word than Quag, you know?
They didn't "magically" become anything. It begins with them all meeting up in a little town after the group had split up for a year or so in separate directions. There was a half elf (Tanis), a halfling/kender named Tasslehoff, Tas most of the story, a pair of twins, one - Raistlin - was a wizard and his brother was a warrior, uh, some elves join the party eventually and a couple of "barbarians", a blue staff...blah blah blah the adventure ensues!
Yeah okay, that's not it then. It must have been Quag Keep because they were a bunch of modern kids (teenagers and young adults I think) who were playing and like opened a portal or something and entered the world they were playing. Then the rest of the time they were having adventures while they tried to get back home.So thanks guys! I think we probably solved it! :)
I started my D & D obsession when I was 14. A new kid moved down the road from me & he was a self-styled Dungeon Master. I lived in a very rural area, so we had to walk or ride our bikes two miles to Barry's house to play. In between sessions, I would spend hours planning out new adventures on graph paper, designing dungeons, caves and characters. Sometimes Barry would come to our house for the D & D, and his dreaded foot-stink after that long walk was the bane of us all. He would peel his payless tennis shoes off and get comfy in the middle of the floor of my room. My room would smell awful for days afterward.That is why D & D will always reactivate my olfactory memory of horrid smelling feet!
R.I.P. Gary Gygax, you will be missed.
Dash, that is COMPLETELY repulsive!
Heh... when I was about 19 I dated a guy who didn't have a car so he'd walk to my house. It might have been 2 miles. Anyway it was fine until summer came. But I live in Sacramento where it gets to be in the triple digits in the summer. The first time we made out after one of those long summer walks was also the last time. Ew.I may not be completely shallow but stinky boy is one thing I have never tolerated!
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I was 16 in the summer of 1980. Southern California. We'd stay up late in our friend's garage drinking beer and playing D&D. Then we'd get a wild hair at oh-crap-thirty, drive to the beach, start a fire, drink more beer & sleep until the seagulls or that guy with the metal detector woke us up (I don't know why-- he never really made much noise, what with the Pacific Ocean slamming itself against the rest of the planet just 30 yards away, but for some reason I always woke up when he was walking by). Swimming, body-surfing and laying in the sun until the beach got too crowded or we got too hungry. Carl's Jr. if we were low on cash, BJ Grunt's if we were flush (awe-inspiring deep dish pizza, but not cheap); home if we had spent it all on gas and beer (of course, if we met any girls somebody inevitably would "find" a few forgotten dollars to keep the party going).
There's another version where we stay home and make Magical Instantly Disappearing Nachos in the middle of the night, which explains why La Victoria Green Taco Sauce will always remind me of Dungeons & Dragons.
R.I.P., Gary Gygax