Great history of Dungeons and Dragons in Gamespy this week.
I played from 1977-1986, and still have all my old Gary Gygax books and dice at home.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.
He really is that stupid.
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
Mike
I’ve got tons of that stuff somewhere also.
Now I play the computer versions. (sigh) I am so pathetic.
Brian J
But what about Dangerous Journeys (Mythus)? Ever try that?
Gregory Markle
You want pathetic? Played it last night…with my co-blogger and a friend that we’ve gamed with for about 15 years…and, yes, we played our highly modified 2nd edition rules and not ***spit***the 3 or 3.5 editions***spit***. The upshot is that our friend plans on writing a book(s) based on our sessions so there is a slim chance of some sort of future for this effort.
Noah D
Heck, I still play. 32 years old, been at it for 20 years now.
“When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
‘Highly modified’ is the only way 2nd Ed. works – for sufficiently low values of ‘works’. ;)
Justin Ogren
Never played it, but it was a heavy impact on all gaming genres and the advanced techniques it has brought to today’s RPG’s. We still have yet to see the full implementation in video games of today, of the ever deep gameplay as in Dungeons and Dragons.
M. Scott Eiland
It’s been a while now, but I was playing somewhat regularly as recently as early last year–and would play again if I could find a convenient regular game.
Noah D
I’m not sure if a video game (console or PC) will ever approach the depth of people sitting around the table, talking and rolling dice; but I also don’t know if it should even be trying. Video games are superb complements to face-to-face tabletop gaming: Diablo allowed gamers to revel in the ‘kick in the door’ playing, Neverwinter Nights brought the beauty of CGI design to spell effects. But they’re all limited by the programming; no game will be able to handle what a group of creative players will come up with, but a halfway-competent GM will – and a good one will, with style, making it part of the narrative of the game.
Justin Ogren
You can’t get it that deep on consoles, that’s one unique vision of storytelling no matter how you put it. But as I mentioned, it did breathe unique mathamatecal and yes Noah D ‘creative’ capabilities into much of the advanced storytelling gaming genre.
What would probably jump the community, would be more similar games to be created, a la different rules, scope of the environment and such. Really I mean kids are all up in this Yu-Gi-Oh cards and yesteryear pokecrap but aren’t ever into the advanced stuff like Dungeons and Dragons, you see companies don’t promote that mindset that Dungeons and Dragons gives you, and then how many people were bread bad fear in the media over Dungeons and Dragons incedints, pretty ridulous. I remember my mother one time in life telling me not to play Dungeons and Dragons, never really told me why, but I soon found out what was up, it was just people’s promotion like something unique and smart was bad.
Dungeons and Dragons did something amazingly positive and really tests your wits and mind through hardcore gaming techniques. I’m so sick of even hearing with my mind of any Dungeons and Dragons ‘incidents’. If anyone talks about that shit one more time I’ll change my position on gun control and go full Rambo on their ass, because there hasn’t been anything more annoying and thrown with just complete idiotic reporting as has been any ‘gaming incicident’ such as the ‘Manhunt’ killings, oh then people found out the media just pushed that story even after finding out the real facts in the case. Then the media doesn’t even apologize for their blatant bad coverage and shit. But if anyone’s on the real, know what’s going on and don’t eat bullshit all day, they know Dungeons and Dragons is kick ass and the movie should be burned and long forgotten! HAHA
physics geek
I played from 1979-198, took a break for about 6 years, and have been playing off an on since then. Yes, I’m pathetic. 25 years of fantasy wargaming. I used to own the original 3 D&D booklets until someone stole them; I’m a first gen gamer.
BTW, editions 3 and 3.5 suck in more ways than I can possibly mention.