Gary Gygax RIP

[tryptych]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7278927.stm

and a wonderful blog post by Andrew Rilstone, which brought back a lot of memories:

http://andrewrilstone.blogspot.com/2008/03/there-was-observer-colour-supplement.html

 

[Mr. Tea]

Poor bugger reached 0 hitpoints and there wasn't a Mage handy at the time? Damn shame. Still, perhaps he'll come back as a Ghoul...

 

[STN]

As soon as I saw this thread, I knew level-6 cleric Mr Tea would pop up within seconds. I don't know how...

 

[Mr. Tea]

As soon as I saw this thread, I knew level-6 cleric Mr Tea would pop up within seconds. I don't know how...

Because you picked up a Scrying Sphere three quests ago, but had forgotten you had it?

 

[tryptych]

My youth wouldn't have been the same without D&D. There's gotta be some closet players on Dissensus... no one else get a nostalgic pang on the memory of colouring in half the numbers on a 0-9 d20?

 

[noel emits]

There's gotta be some closet players on Dissensus...

I think this has already been confirmed.

 

[STN]

My goth mate used to play some kind of military strategy game through the post. Imagine, Through. The. Post.

 

[fokse vektaire xeven]

Closet?
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Til we meet again Gary...

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[tryptych]

http://xkcd.com/393/

and

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=03062008

 

[Mr. Tea]

This guy:

hot contender for the Annoying Face thread, no?
Roll 7+ on a d10 to avoid becoming Irritated...

 

[Pestario]

His special attack is charm. With that face? hehe

 

[Mr. Tea]

His special attack is charm. With that face? hehe

Haha, hadn't noticed that.

 

[swears]

 

[swears]

Played these at school:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game)


Quit when I was about 13 cuz I was worried about looking like a geek.

Told a girl at work I used to like role playing games at school, she looked shocked and said "Weren't you a bit young for kinky sex?"

 

[tryptych]

Call of Cthulhu was brilliant. Any game where you get to go mad from too much staring into the horrors of the abyss is a lot of fun.

For truly jaw-dropping levels of commitment, you have to check out these guys - Cthulhu live action roleplaying:

http://www.cthulhulives.org/gameindex.html

This game in particular sounds mental:

http://www.cthulhulives.org/Game55/frame55.html

 

[Mr. Tea]

from http://lolthulhu.com/

 

[tryptych]

 

[continuum]

"The Navis Nobilitai, more commonly known as Navigators are vital to the existance of the Imperium. It is their powers and 'third eye' which enables ships to make warp jumps in relative safety. Without the navigators, ships would only be able to make short, blind, dangerous jumps, and without safe warp travel the imperium would fracture and be doomed."

 

[swears]

So J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, William Gibson and Frank Herbert have all been ripped off for RPG settings. Who else?

 

[Mr. Tea]

So J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, William Gibson and Frank Herbert have all been ripped off for RPG settings. Who else?

Ridley Scott/James Cameron/Hans Giger, Robert E. Howard, Isaac Asimov, George Lucas, Homer, the authors of the Talmud/Bible/Greek, Egyptian, Sumerian etc. myths/Elder Edda/Beowulf/mediaeval romances, Arthurian legend etc. etc. etc.

Basically RPG/fantasy war games act as a sort of cultural trash compactor, with sometimes interesting results.

(Also, I wouldn't call The Call Of Cthulhu a 'rip-off' since it is openly based on the Cthulhu mythos...and also out of fear of meeting an untimely, tentacley demise. )