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Started by Jacob, July 22, 2014, 02:59:27 PM

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crazy canuck

#1
July 22, 2014, 03:15:51 PM
Quote(Make all the jokes you want, but some of my fellow-players were jocks who had girlfriends...

Woot, my subculture within the subculture finally gets some recognition!

Jacob

#2
July 22, 2014, 03:21:48 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 22, 2014, 03:15:51 PM
Quote(Make all the jokes you want, but some of my fellow-players were jocks who had girlfriends...

Woot, my subculture within the subculture finally gets some recognition!

I gamed with a few guys like that :)

CountDeMoney

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July 22, 2014, 05:03:44 PM Last Edit: July 22, 2014, 05:38:43 PM by CountDeMoney
The revisionist popularity is only because so many of the Gen Xers that played D&D back then are so prevalent in modern media now;  it's taken a generation to undo all the damage Tom Hanks did to the hobby in after-school special, panicking the fuck out of Reaganaut-era mothers.  NEVER FORGET

crazy canuck

#4
July 22, 2014, 05:42:42 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 22, 2014, 05:03:44 PM
it's taken a generation to undo all the damage Tom Hanks did to the hobby in after-school special, panicking the fuck out of Reaganaut-era mothers.  NEVER FORGET

I remember that one.  :D

Tamas

#5
July 23, 2014, 03:49:56 AM
All this D&D talk in online press has made me all nostalgic.

Pedrito

#6
July 23, 2014, 04:02:48 AM
Quote from: Tamas on July 23, 2014, 03:49:56 AM
All this D&D talk in online press has made me all nostalgic.
:yes:

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crazy canuck

#7
July 23, 2014, 01:08:19 PM
I look forward to the day I can play it again.  :)

mongers

#8
July 23, 2014, 01:26:02 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 23, 2014, 01:08:19 PM
I look forward to the day I can play it again.  :)

:cool:

Damn, that's why I should have had children, I knew there was something.  :D





edit:
The guy's right about Deities and Demigods; I'm regretting selling my stuff years ago.   :(
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11B4V

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July 23, 2014, 01:38:16 PM Last Edit: July 23, 2014, 01:42:09 PM by 11B4V
A very good article

I wonder how many Languisher's have played this with any regularity in their lifetime. Be interesting to see by age group too. I bet upwards to 80%.
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mongers

#10
July 23, 2014, 01:50:52 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on July 23, 2014, 01:38:16 PM
A very good article

I wonder how many Languisher's have played this with any regularity in their lifetime. Be interesting to see by age group too. I bet upwards to 80%.

I think my friends and I played from around 78 to 81, before other stuff occurred; maybe 14-17 years old.
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Syt

#11
July 23, 2014, 01:54:53 PM
Not me. I grew up in a town devoid of roleplayers, so I had to make do with choose your own adventure books (Lone Wolf and SteveJackson/Ian Livingstone stuff). :Embarrass:
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Caliga

#12
July 23, 2014, 01:56:36 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 23, 2014, 01:54:53 PM
Not me. I grew up in a town devoid of roleplayers, so I had to make do with choose your own adventure books (Lone Wolf and SteveJackson/Ian Livingstone stuff). :Embarrass:
:wub:

You know you can get those on smartphones now, right?  I have House of Hell on my Samsung.
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garbon

#13
July 23, 2014, 02:00:14 PM
Not me. I never understood the attraction.
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Delirium

#14
July 23, 2014, 04:28:15 PM
I played not so much D&D as such but equivalents in Swedish religiously from 6th grade upwards, around 1984 it was. Some games in English we turned to were Gammaworld, Traveller and something with Frontier in it that I forget right now. The 80's were a lot of fun that way, but then I turned into a jock and then a drunk.
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