Knights & Knaves Alehouse

I haven't kept in touch with many people from back in the day, but I can think of about a dozen or so that played in the 80s and don't play, now.

It just about kills me that the guy who introduced me to D&D wont play anymore. He only plays Wow these days.

Clangador wrote:It just about kills me that the guy who introduced me to D&D wont play anymore. He only plays Wow these days.

That's too bad. How was he in the games then - did he seem to enjoy the social interaction or were other people necessary evils to his gaming escape?

Clangador wrote:We need a secret handshake or something to identify us from the mundanes.

Something like an alignment language! Or perhaps the equivalent of Thieves' Cant.

Chainsaw wrote:

Clangador wrote:It just about kills me that the guy who introduced me to D&D wont play anymore. He only plays Wow these days.

That's too bad. How was he in the games then - did he seem to enjoy the social interaction or were other people necessary evils to his gaming escape?

Last time I saw the guy who introduced me to D&D (in 2002, at a mutual friend's wedding) he was working in a kitchen and I'm pretty sure he was strung out on meth. I don't believe he was still playing rpgs as of that time (and the topic certainly never came up), but I suppose I could be wrong...

T. Foster wrote:Last time I saw the guy who introduced me to D&D .. I'm pretty sure he was strung out on meth.

Hmm.. So he had completely embraced the fantasy world and you were still just playing games. He's hard core.

Chainsaw wrote:

Clangador wrote:It just about kills me that the guy who introduced me to D&D wont play anymore. He only plays Wow these days.

That's too bad. How was he in the games then - did he seem to enjoy the social interaction or were other people necessary evils to his gaming escape?

He gets along with people just fine. He is an alcoholic. In fact he is the reason I have a policy of no drinking at my game table. Don't even get me started on the guy that is the reason I have a policy of you must play your own gender. This guy always played female characters and liked to flirt in character with male characters.

T. Foster wrote:

Chainsaw wrote:

Clangador wrote:It just about kills me that the guy who introduced me to D&D wont play anymore. He only plays Wow these days.

That's too bad. How was he in the games then - did he seem to enjoy the social interaction or were other people necessary evils to his gaming escape?

Last time I saw the guy who introduced me to D&D (in 2002, at a mutual friend's wedding) he was working in a kitchen and I'm pretty sure he was strung out on meth. I don't believe he was still playing rpgs as of that time (and the topic certainly never came up), but I suppose I could be wrong...

The guy that taught us to play 1E (around 78' I think) last visited about a decade ago. He said he'd tossed all his 1E stuff (he had several big cardboard boxes he used to drive around with stuffed with home made dungeons, cities, castles, villages, etc. he'd stay up all night for many years designing....a treasure trove probably rivaling alot of early TSRs material. And of course his books, Dragons got dumped). I guess it was too intrusive into his ability to live a "normal life" (I believe this guy had some possible mob connections -was independently wealthy or something, and when asked he says in an American-Italian Father Sarducci accent he does "business" was all we could ever get out of him). When someone asked him if he wanted to go canoeing, he said the last time he'd gone in a boat (a couple years earlier) it was in a long boat sitting between two native-tribal paddlers on Safari in Africa going down some remote forested river. Pretty interesting guy I guess.

Anyhow, I'd kill for those boxes full of his hand made "1E gems" (he'd been working on for over a decade, I'd only seen small bits of it, but what I saw was fantastic stuff). Perhaps I should have made the offer...with his mob connections he'd probably have taken me up on it. Anyway, we keep expecting him to show up out of the blue, as he appears at odd times that usually correspond to some bizzare astronomical or world event.

Yeah, he was the spitting image of Father Sarducci, but the real deal (just not a priest).

My first DM died a couple of years ago after throwing a clot some months post-surgery for intestinal cancer, or as he called it, ass cancer.

Being an alcoholic, tweaker or mobster ain't so bad.

I introduced myself to the game, DMing before playing.
In other words, I completely missed out on most of the fun of AD&D.

Random wrote:I introduced myself to the game, DMing before playing.
In other words, I completely missed out on most of the fun of AD&D.

Well, speaking as someone who has done it both ways (insert jokes here), the player and the DM experience are both great in their own ways, so I'm never disappointed to fill either role.

I would like to have the chance to play now and then. I end up DMing all the time and never playing.