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#1 Post by ClockworkPoltergeist »

Oh, hi! I guess that's what it does.

Hey, Everyone, ClockworkPoltergeist here having been seduced over by Starbeard to join his Let's Learn… Tunnels & Trolls! adventure. Thinking back on the journey, I guess I started my RPG adventure with the Choose Your Own Adventure books back in the early '80's and progressed on to the D&D boxed sets not long after. Of course, being an avid reader, RPGs are simply the natural extension of the interest to adventure in new realms. A couple of years after the B/E/M boxed sets I picked up AD&D 2nd Ed (Hey, does anyone else find it as hilarious as I do that Wikipedia's first search result for AD&D is Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance?). I gamed with that through high school after which it kinda fizzled out when my group went several different directions. I had a brief stint of the next evolution of D&D though I couldn't tell you what the edition or version was. What I do recall is a completely revamped character creation process where the player had to pick a character package of some sort to build a character from. I played a dwarven rat-catcher. Yeah, it was that exciting. :roll: Honestly, it probably had a lot more to do with small group dynamics and such as I was the outsider and no one really bothered to roll out the welcome mat. I picked up one other group in college and gamed with them a few times, I recall Talislanta and some other game that is now lost to the haze of time. It didn't last all that long.

I dropped out of gaming for a number of years, you know - life: marriage, kids, job, etc. Picked it back up - oh, 15 years ago - and it's been a sporadic journey since. I got involved with a group from work, whom I'm still gaming with, to play Shadowrun 3rd Ed (?), might have been 4th ed. We jumped from there to Earthdawn and then 7th Seas. I've played some Legend of the 5 Rings and now we're back to Shadowrun 5th ed. I'm having fun evolving the character. In the midst of all that, I picked up the Firefly RPG and played some online, though it's really hard to find a decent group of folks that want to game for any length of time. I also found Tunnels and Trolls and made the Trollbridge my home online.

That's pretty much the gist of the story, though I may have missed a game or three in there somewhere: Classic Battletech, Mechwarrior, Robotech, Advanced Recon, a homebrew or two - the gods only know what else. So, I'm here now to pursue my love of T&T and game with some interested folk. That's pretty much it, a rather typical story, I'd expect.

~ C.P.

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#2 Post by rredmond »

Welcome ClockworkPoltergeist!
Looks like you've played an interesting slew of games there!
Perfect timing for T&T too, welcome and well met!
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#3 Post by Alethan »

Welcome to the forum, Polt!

Lots of other rule sets here on the forum if you want to branch out (or go back to your roots). Lots of OSR, especially, if that peaks your interest.

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#4 Post by OGRE MAGE »

Welcome to the Unseen Servant!

Enjoy the tunnels. :D

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#5 Post by Starbeard »

Welcome, C.P.! My friends and I had a pretty good time playing Shadowrun, Earthdawn and L5R around the same time as you.

I know there's a Firefly game on here somewhere, but I don't know if it's still running or accepting new players. Ah, here it is.

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#6 Post by dmw71 »

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Welcome ClockworkPoltergeist :)
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#8 Post by ClockworkPoltergeist »

My thanks to you all for such a warm welcome. Thanks also to Starbeard for pointing out the Firefly game. While the game may be on hiatus, according to the OOC thread, there should be some good reading in there. After we explore troll tunnels, of course.

~ C.P.

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Welcome to the site and glad you found your way here.

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Welcome, Clockwork. I hope this place becomes your home away from home. :)
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Welcome aboard!

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Greetings :)


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Welcome.
Sometimes this summer I will most likely be participating in another 24 hour game of Dungeons & Dragons as part of Extra Life. This organization uses gaming to help raise money to donate to children's hospitals. I'm raising money for Marshfield Children's Hospital in Marshfield, WI, and all money I raise will go to that hospital. All donations are tax-deductible. Please take a moment to check out my donation page below. Thank you.

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