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  • Lucifer Box
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    Originally posted by Alf W View Post
    Never had any time for D&D whilst at school. The Alpha males / top social set were usually too busy with sport or girls. We used to leave that sort of thing to the sickly dweebs.
    Ah, RuneQuest man, eh?

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  • Alf W
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    Never had any time for D&D whilst at school. The Alpha males / top social set were usually too busy with sport or girls. We used to leave that sort of thing to the sickly dweebs.

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  • Lucifer Box
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    Originally posted by chef View Post
    Dungeons & Dragons.. personally i always found Sheila, the thief quite cute..
    Nah, Diana the Acrobat was a minx. Mind you, given the many Presto the Wizard lookalikes around at the time, fantasising about cartoon characters might be as good as it got. Probably true of this board's membership too.

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  • chef
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    Wots D&D?
    Dungeons & Dragons.. personally i always found Sheila, the thief quite cute..

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  • Lucifer Box
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    Originally posted by hyperD View Post
    Ah, a blast from the past LB!

    I DM'd this at school. Remember everyone singing:

    "Ding-dong the lich is dead
    Which old lich?
    The wicked lich"

    when they finished.
    Yes, I played in it at school as well. Those were the days indeed, there were few to match Gygaz as the author of the deadliest dungeons in town. I recall we'd just done Expedition to the Barrier Peaks so we were all tooled up with blasters and grenades. We still died like dogs though.

    Perhaps we could re-run it with only level 1-3 characters allowed? It's what Gygax would have wanted

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by Lucifer Box View Post
    A black armband day indeed.

    Time to re-run Tomb of Horrors as a fitting tribute I think.
    Ah, a blast from the past LB!

    I DM'd this at school. Remember everyone singing:

    "Ding-dong the lich is dead
    Which old lich?
    The wicked lich"

    when they finished.

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  • Ardesco
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    Or log into DDO and redo Delara's to hear him narrating it once more.

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  • Lucifer Box
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    A black armband day indeed.

    Time to re-run Tomb of Horrors as a fitting tribute I think.

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  • Board Game Geek
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    'Tis a sad day indeed to see the passing of such an influential figure in the nerd niche of D&D.

    I met Mr. Gygax at a Gencon convention, and he struck me as a witty, non-assuming individual, with a real passion for the genre.

    I think I shall have to run a 1st Edition game in memoriam to his passing.

    Rip Mr Gygax, and may you be reincarnated in Greyhawk. (Though not as a badger, obviously)

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  • snaw
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    Originally posted by Ardesco View Post
    A day where all contractors must be paid at least double time.
    Only level 20 and above, please. Can't have the rookies getting these kind of abilities until they've earned enough XP.

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  • Ardesco
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    Hmmmm we could start a petition on the governments swanky petition site for a new national holiday called Gygax day!! A day where all contractors must be paid at least double time.

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  • Malacandra
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    Originally posted by snaw View Post
    Anyone got a rez for Gary?
    No good. There's no cure for natural death.

    Dear me, if I had even a stingy rate for every hour of my time I wasted on that game, I'd be supping a cold one on a sandy beach somewhere even now. 'Bye Gary, those were some fun times.

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  • Bagpuss
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    I'd have thought SASguru would have been into D&D

    Sir you have infringed rule 24a subsection 4 inappropriate mounting of a battle dragon, I pronounce sentence of death by the mighty sword of dobber

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  • snaw
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    Anyone got a rez for Gary?

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  • Pondlife
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    Wots D&D?
    Drunk & Disorderly

    HTH

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