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When worlds collide....

During the 1970s, plastic model kit building was huge. Below, re-live the 1973 moments in Airfix Magazine when British plastic modellers, positive but slightly puzzled, are exposed to the first signs on the horizon of something that right now doesn't even have a set of rules, but just a few years later will have snatched hordes of young would-be modellers away from Spitfires and tanks....
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Hehe. I played Legends of Wargaming: Battle for the Moathouse at Gary Con last year. It was run using the original Chainmail Fantasy rules. This was my first experience with miniatures wargaming, and I had a lot of fun. I'd say Gygax and Jeff Perrin were able to figure out what you can do with fantasy figures on a gaming table.
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And STILL not level 10... :D
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Very cool article. :)

I hope my table top group lasts that long.
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Not really old school, but this picture just looked awesome!
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Google tells me its the Disaster of the Gladden Fields -- Tolkien, no wonder why I like this one.
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Gary Gygax being interviewed by Tom Snyder:

http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2 ... nyder.html

Pretty cool stuff - a fighter is "the one who hits things" :D
Great interview. Fun to hear Gary talk about D&D and it's bits.

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This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
Alethan: I'm good with NOT pressing our luck this time.
mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
Scott308: ...everyone should be reminded of just how wonderful the people they play games with here can be in real life.
Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
Rex: I can move to the wait list to let someone else into the game.
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Video of the Frost Giant's Rift, in 3d, holographically rendered. Neato stuff!!

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This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
Alethan: I'm good with NOT pressing our luck this time.
mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
Scott308: ...everyone should be reminded of just how wonderful the people they play games with here can be in real life.
Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
Rex: I can move to the wait list to let someone else into the game.
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Niiiiice.

Although, for true fidelity to the source material, it should be littered with the remains of thousands of TPKs.
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:lol:
This is a game about killing things and taking their stuff so you can become more powerful in order to kill bigger things and take even better stuff.
Alethan: I'm good with NOT pressing our luck this time.
mjulius: That's how I know I'm home.
Pulpatoon: The whole point of PbP is to take the scheduling pressure off the game. We're just chatty because we're so eager!
Scott308: ...everyone should be reminded of just how wonderful the people they play games with here can be in real life.
Leitz: Quality and quantity wise, I think US is the best I've seen.
Paladin: I can promise terror, glory, and riches...or a quick and brutal death.
Inferno: Come on! That's was Vicar's Head, a completely different doomed village!
Rex: I can move to the wait list to let someone else into the game.
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That's pretty cool.
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Hello all, I thought I'd resurrect this old thread, this time with science fiction goodness given a new game I'm spinning up.

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From left to right, authors Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Silverberg, three giants of the science fiction field whose work and ideas echo through the genre today (and in X Minus One.) I think this picture, by Jay Kay Klein, is from the 27th World Science Fiction convention, St. Louiscon, in 1969.
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Phillip K. Dick (left) and then-wife Nancy talking with a young Robert Silverberg (right)at Baycon, the 26th World Science Fiction Convention, 1968. Many of his 121 short stories and 44 novels have been adapted to films and TV shows such as The Man in the High Castle, Blade Runner, Total Recall, and others. The current "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" on Amazon Prime is very good.
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Old Gamma World ad with Gary's daughter Elise.

Elise with a younger and gentler Tim Kask.
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Ads for science fiction role playing games of old, from Dragon magazine around ‘81.

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I love the look of the line and ink drawing style that was standard in those old sci-fi games.
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It's not "super old school" but it is 20 years old.
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