So you're the one who stole my old Dungeon Master's guide!

Fez-tastic! And I'm glad to see that your R. Talsorian CP is not very worn. I know mine didn't see much use. I ran a tournament game of Talsorian CP once. The people who showed up to play were very very frightening.

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
Fez-tastic! And I'm glad to see that your R. Talsorian CP is not very worn.

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The second edition is in a much sorrier state. But I prefer the minimalistic white on black pictures of the shoestring budget first. At the time the only CP books I owned were Neuromancer and Hardwired...

And Colin, you are showing my age and yours. And I got mine in exchange for a battered copy of "Air Assault on Crete", in 1981, in Durango, CO, after watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. When did you lose your copy?

José

Hm. I think I got mine around the same time, and I had it until university at least, starting in '89. (I had stopped using it by then. No, really! I was playing GURPS, Call of Cthulu, Cyberpunk and Vampire instead... )

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
Fez-tastic! And I'm glad to see that your R. Talsorian CP is not very worn. I know mine didn't see much use. I ran a tournament game of Talsorian CP once. The people who showed up to play were very very frightening.

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I can imagine. Some of the best campaigns I've
ever played were in CP2020. It was, though the
nail in the coffin for classed-based character
systems.

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Originally posted by JRE:
And Colin, you are showing my age and yours. And I got mine in exchange for a battered copy of "Air Assault on Crete", in 1981, in Durango, CO, after watching Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Well, you don't have to be too terribly old. I've got a copy of the same DMG, along with all the other 1E books (including Deities and Demigods with the Cthulhu mythos) in a box here. Oh dear, I'm a geek.

[geek challenge]
Have ye the original Chainmail?
[geek challenge]

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
[geek challenge]
Have ye the original Chainmail?
[geek challenge]

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No, as I said I started in 1981, and I live outside the US. I got the 2nd Ed., however, and sold it in e-bay in 1999, with my original Vampire, original Ars Magica, and a few other old games. Nobody wanted my old D&D, which is why they are still at home.

I did not say we are old, Split, just that we are showing our age, sixties' kids all (I assume).

With some tweaking CP2020 was a very friendly system to GM, while allowing players to love and customize their characters. And I still think that is the main thing. Of course, loving a CP character is SM of a high degree.

Back to books, I must recommend to those of a scientific bent "Foundations of Food Preparation". Great to know why we cook as we do, and why a pot is a chemical reactor.

José

I hate to encourage the threadjack, but surely I'm not the only guy who played Traveller back in the day, am I?

Also...can SOMEBODY please tell me why in the world there's not a Car Wars MMORPG? Steve Jackson games never returns my drunken emails about it.

As I did not enjoy Car Wars, I cannot answer you, but we did play a short Traveller campaign, a couple of Megatraveller ones, and a weird TNE one, as the excellent supplement Fire Fusion and Steel made us redesign all our equipment.

We were planning to start a GURPS Traveller one, but we do not have as much free time as we used to.

Quick, someone, post a photo!

José

Still Life with Books, Hat, content kitty and, oddly enough, a still life with books.



Still Life with Books, Hat, evil kitty and, oddly enough, a still life with books.

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Originally posted by FaustusRedux:
I hate to encourage the threadjack, but surely I'm not the only guy who played Traveller back in the day, am I?

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I'll admit I played Traveller. It was kinda fun. Gauss guns rule.

Nice kitty SC.

I didn't play Traveller, but I wanted to. Just never found the books and/or the inclination to look harder for them.

Evil kitty SC.

Honestly, I'm not that old and I've got the early dnd stuff right here next to me. I'm still in love with that 1st ed cpunk set. Very austere. But god, their melee rules were pointless, and the system was way easy to break. But some of my best games were under that system. At gencon one year, a friend and I dragged the r.tal guys into a corner during the white wolf party and had a long and vigorous argument about hand to hand combat. It was all great drunken fun.