Lammycat Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I wouldn't know a D & D term if it held me down and shot me up a Tabasco enema. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Hey, at least you guys sat around playing D&D with other people. I can remember wasting a whole summer playing that Pool of Radiance D&D computer game on my parents' old XT--each move took about 1 minute to process, thereby guaranteeing that each session of game play took no less than about 10 hours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Once you go half-orc, baby, you never go back." Yeah, and all those geeks you made fun of back in the day, well, those geeks, they Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Tabasco enema. Are you sure, that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightOfJoy Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Nerd alert-I still have all my manuals and modules in a box in the garage just waiting for the moment in life when I have more time on my hands for fun n games......back in the day, I was one hell of a Dungeon Master. RIP Gary! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Hey, at least you guys sat around playing D&D with other people. geekery or not, this is an extremely valid difference between the RPG of the past and the PC-based RPG of today...at least it was a group of people interacting w/ each other. the whole video game culture kind of frightens me in that regard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dude Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 geekery or not, this is an extremely valid difference between the RPG of the past and the PC-based RPG of today...at least it was a group of people interacting w/ each other. the whole video game culture kind of frightens me in that regard. Eh, the NPCs in those games had way more personality and were a lot more convincing than some pimple faced 15-year-old dork doing a high-pitched female voice trying to be a Succubus or somesuch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swirlaround Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I bought my original 3 manual set from Gary up in Wi. and had him sign it. He looked at me, in bewilderment, and signed it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 geekery or not, this is an extremely valid difference between the RPG of the past and the PC-based RPG of today...at least it was a group of people interacting w/ each other. the whole video game culture kind of frightens me in that regard.I could not agree more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 Achewood weighs in on the issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I could not agree more. I cannot speak for off-line, single player rpg-ers, but, online games such as Warcraft are every bit as social as this forum, if not more so Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dude Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I don't know what on earth is happening here, but 'healthy social interaction' it is not : Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Gobias Industries Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I'm more of a Magic man myself, but dead gamers never makes a gamer happy...no matter how much nerdier they were. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I cannot speak for off-line, single player rpg-ers, but, online games such as Warcraft are every bit as social as this forum, if not more so Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 even in the case of this site, interacting w/ someone online is very different than interacting w/ someone in person. the more you function i nthat sort of enviornment, IMO, the rustier you get in your actual socialization/communication skills w/ folks outside of your non-virtual enviornment. i'm sure there ar exceptions to the rule, but that is my two cents. I totally agree Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JUDE Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 ...but that can be said of any sort of individual pursuit in which one over-indulges Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 [quote name='JUDE Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OOO Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I have no doubt I would have been into this stuff had I not been born in the PC era. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I have no doubt I would have been into this stuff had I not been born in the PC era. we also used to use hockey sticks as pretend guitars an pretend we were KISS while listenting to ALIVE...nowadays, i think you can actually pay a small fee to gene simmons and actually be Ace or Peter for a gig. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I am actually listening to Alive I and II this afternoon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I cannot speak for off-line, single player rpg-ers, but, online games such as Warcraft are every bit as social as this forum, if not more so Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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