My (star) kingdom for a resurrection scroll.....
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I could just cry... his post office box has not been more than 7 blocks from my home until one year ago. I used to live at 1896 Grand Ave and then moved to four blocks off Lexington and Grand.
I could have had beers with him.
Well, a couple of my friends and I have buried a few mates in that same funeral home so we're going to wish the guy a hearty thanks. Beers at the Muddy Pig afterwards. It's a Saint Paul thing and we owe him after 22 years of gaming pleasure.
I could have had beers with him.
Groganardia said:
Well, a couple of my friends and I have buried a few mates in that same funeral home so we're going to wish the guy a hearty thanks. Beers at the Muddy Pig afterwards. It's a Saint Paul thing and we owe him after 22 years of gaming pleasure.
BlackBat242
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Don't forget that last year on April 19 we lost Bob Bledsaw... founder of Judges' Guild.
saundby
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*sigh* Another loss.
Adding to the list from the past, there's Steve Henderson that we lost in 2006.
Adding to the list from the past, there's Steve Henderson that we lost in 2006.
I never did much D&D. I thought the rules didn't fully represent the middle ages as I understood them, but I appreciated the escapist quality the setting and modules provided.
I'm sorry he's passed on.
Gamers seem to die a little earlier than most. Guys, please get out and exercise a little. The longer you live, the more you can game.
I'm sorry he's passed on.
Gamers seem to die a little earlier than most. Guys, please get out and exercise a little. The longer you live, the more you can game.
The more time I spend exercising, the less time i spend gaming now! :devil:
(Just kidding; good advice)
BlackBat242
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They were never intended to do that.
They were intended to allow individuals to play within the types of Fantasy worlds that they were reading about... Conan, Middle-Earth, Jack Vance's novels, Poul Anderson's non-historical fantasy... etc.
D&D was about Heroic Fantasy, NOT "historical re-creation".
It was never intended to be a "Society for Creative Anachronism-game".
BlackBat; I guess I would disagree with that, but perhaps only partially. I played basic D&D with three friends one Sunday, and found it very entertaining, but was dismayed that I couldn't bring in full fledged knight.
I appreciate the creations by Gygax and Anerson, and the spinoffs they inspired. But when I see all the spikey hair, oversized sword and mish mash of cultures, I often think that the spirit of the history which those games are supposed to pay homage is truncated and defeated.
It's like the fantasy genre is now a free-for-all, as long as there are swords and spells. I don't know what Anerson's nor Gygax's thoughts were regarding the mutation of the genre, but I know it seems very overwrought to me.
I appreciate the creations by Gygax and Anerson, and the spinoffs they inspired. But when I see all the spikey hair, oversized sword and mish mash of cultures, I often think that the spirit of the history which those games are supposed to pay homage is truncated and defeated.
It's like the fantasy genre is now a free-for-all, as long as there are swords and spells. I don't know what Anerson's nor Gygax's thoughts were regarding the mutation of the genre, but I know it seems very overwrought to me.
BlackBat242
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I do know what EGG's view was... he had (for years) until his death, a Q&A thread on Dragonsfoot (actually, there were so many posts that there were 12+ threads of a couple hundred posts each).
There is also a section there devoted to his new RPG Lejendary Adventures, in which he posted frequently.
He addressed this subject repeatedly, and he was really unhappy with the direction RPG games had gone... and really advocated the style of the early game (original D&D and AD&D [1E]).
He also stated (repeatedly) in both those early works and anytime someone asked him on-line, that D&D/AD&D was NOT supposed to be a simulation of historical characters/settings/world/etc, but was supposed to be fantasy... preferably fantasy created by the DM & players.
If you wanted to use something historical for inspiration, more power to you... but he opposed trying to use the game to play historically "there are plenty of historical games that let you do that".
A later AD&D book (Unearthed Arcana, 1985) did include the Cavalier class... intended to be a fantasy counterpart of the historical knight, but not to be the historical knight.
There is also a section there devoted to his new RPG Lejendary Adventures, in which he posted frequently.
He addressed this subject repeatedly, and he was really unhappy with the direction RPG games had gone... and really advocated the style of the early game (original D&D and AD&D [1E]).
He also stated (repeatedly) in both those early works and anytime someone asked him on-line, that D&D/AD&D was NOT supposed to be a simulation of historical characters/settings/world/etc, but was supposed to be fantasy... preferably fantasy created by the DM & players.
If you wanted to use something historical for inspiration, more power to you... but he opposed trying to use the game to play historically "there are plenty of historical games that let you do that".
A later AD&D book (Unearthed Arcana, 1985) did include the Cavalier class... intended to be a fantasy counterpart of the historical knight, but not to be the historical knight.
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Eek, I don't want to hijack the thread. Let's open a new discussion on what RPGs are? Okay? 
