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 //(Am I?)// //(Am I?)//
  
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 My game of choice is, surprise-surprise, old-school //D&D// We used to play a weird mish-mash of [[dict>red_box_d_d|Red Box B/X]] and //AD&D//, but once I started college in the late eighties and //AD&D 2e// began hitting its stride I was already moving out of gaming. My game of choice is, surprise-surprise, old-school //D&D// We used to play a weird mish-mash of [[dict>red_box_d_d|Red Box B/X]] and //AD&D//, but once I started college in the late eighties and //AD&D 2e// began hitting its stride I was already moving out of gaming.
  
-Now I'm back after I ran across [[http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/08/16/2334255/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition-announced|this article]] late one night in 2007 while browsing [[http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot]] in the summer of 2007.  I couldn't believe there was a fourth edition coming -- I didn't even know there had been a //third// It broke my brain... I wondered if anybody even remembered the stuff we used to play, so I began to investigate and found the humble early rumblings of the OSR.+Now I'm back after I ran across [[http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/08/16/2334255/dungeons-dragons-4th-edition-announced|this article]] late one night in 2007 while browsing [[http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot]] in the summer of 2007.  I couldn't believe there was a fourth edition coming -- I didn't even know there had been a //third!//  It broke my brain... I wondered if anybody even remembered the stuff we used to play, so I began to investigate and found the humble early rumblings of the OSR.
  
 This whole time I've meant to start a game but never got my act together.  Now, after years of thinking about it it's finally coming to fruition. This whole time I've meant to start a game but never got my act together.  Now, after years of thinking about it it's finally coming to fruition.
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 +==== Influences ====
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 +  * Old-school D&D and AD&D through
 +  * '60s through early '80s Saturday morning TV adventure shows
 +  * '80s through early '90s fantasy and horror movies and TV shows
 +  * Computer games, especially [[wp>interactive fiction]], '80s fantasy RPGs and [[wp>roguelikes]]
 +  * Copious amounts of science fiction
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-**//###Don't be a dick###//**.+**//<fs 1.4em>Dont be a dick.</fs>//**
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 Nobody likes gaming with a dick.  //Nobody.// Nobody likes gaming with a dick.  //Nobody.//
  
-I've gamed with enough dicks that there's actually a [[gameinfo:table_rules|code of conduct]] for games.+I've gamed with enough dicks that there's actually a [[gameinfo:table_etiquette|document for table etiquette]] for games.
  
  
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 {{:gmmeritbadges:meritbadge_beerandpretzels.jpg?nolink&50 |This is a beer and pretzels game}} {{:gmmeritbadges:meritbadge_beerandpretzels.jpg?nolink&50 |This is a beer and pretzels game}}
-Most people play the game to have fun.  We're here to have a good time and keep it lighthearted, but we all know the gamer that took the game Way Too Seriously™.  Please, don't be [[dict>stereotypes|that guy]].+Most people play the game to have fun.  We're here to have a good time and keep it lighthearted, but we all know the gamer that took the game Way Too Seriously™.  Please, don't be [[dict>stereotypes_gamer|that guy]].
  
  

Boomer D&D: “We are brutal mercenaries who take whatever isn't nailed down. We get killed because we didn't understand the ten paragraph description of the trapped room.”