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Sometimes the internet feels like perpetual High School
Hate to break it to you, but no one has ever left high school. All the cliques and bullying just changes the newer, slightly bigger stage. The old People, Variety and other women's Mags were proof enough of that.Sometimes the internet feels like perpetual High School
Hate to break it to you, but no one has ever left high school. All the cliques and bullying just changes the newer, slightly bigger stage. The old People, Variety and other women's Mags were proof enough of that.
Ladies and gentlemen? One of the lucky ones! Seriously, if you can't see it around you, then you're one up on most people! And probably MUCH happier than the rest of us!Not my life experience at all.
Ladies and gentlemen? One of the lucky ones! Seriously, if you can't see it around you, then you're one up on most people! And probably MUCH happier than the rest of us!
Hate to break it to you, but no one has ever left high school. All the cliques and bullying just changes the newer, slightly bigger stage. The old People, Variety and other women's Mags were proof enough of that.
I dunno, I'm a cynic, but not a pessimist. My life has been perpetually better since leaving High School.
Sometimes the internet feels like perpetual High School
I wish I could say that was totally true for me but I've rarely been able to recreate the magic of having a ton of friends with plenty of free time to do whatever I was into.I dunno, I'm a cynic, but not a pessimist. My life has been perpetually better since leaving High School.
Isn't that related AOL adding internet access?Wait, you've never heard of "eternal september"?
Now I feel old...
Yes, because prior to that there was only a wave of newcomers who had to be taught manners when people got access through college in September.Isn't that related AOL adding internet access?
AD&D sucks for all the previously given reasons. Try The Fantasy Trip
or better yet *****TRAVELLER******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rich Magill
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More options Oct 20 1982, 6:28 am
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
From: unc!tim
Date: Wed Oct 20 06:28:39 1982
Local: Wed, Oct 20 1982 6:28 am
Subject: AD&D sucks
In a possibly vain attempt to get some discussion on this group, I will now come out of the closet
publicly and say I think that Advanced Dungeons and Dragons is a very poor excuse for a game. Gary Gygax has no conception of how books are actually used in a play situation, and a very poor ability to understand hand-to-hand combat. Further, the magic system is totally counter-intuitive. Finally, the importance of magic items (as well as the ideas of class and level) depersonalizes characters, leading to a "rogue"- type environment. (Oh yes, the description of gods in terms of hit dice, etc., is totally useless to the DM, and the unarmed combat system is an atrocity; sorry to have forgotten these.) The only reason that AD&D is the most popular FRP game around is that it has a major lead on the others--unfortunately, TSR has not used this time to improve the rules, only to lengthen them.
The only game I know of that's worse than AD&D, aside from basic D&D, is Tunnels and Trolls. Both RuneQuest and The Fantasy Trip provide much better alternatives, and I am told that SPI's DragonQuest (now owned by TSR) is hard to learn but very smooth once one learns it. I strongly recommend that any AD&D player buy RuneQuest and play a few games before further glorifying their rather primitive game.
I suppose I should be afraid to sign my name,
Tim Maroney (unc!tim)
There’s always some dork who feels compelled to tell you why the thing you like sucks.
This happened to me Monday at a local art supply store. I was looking to replace some of my wife's expensive colored pencils and got a lecture from a worker (who looked and acted like a bitter grad school dropout) about how shitty that brand is. They also didn't have the ones I wanted in stock.The worste is when they are working at the place you are trying to actually buy the item from
The worste is when they are working at the place you are trying to actually buy the item from
Inclines me to wonder what he did want to carry in his store.I've had the owner of an RPG shop actively give a speech to other customers and myself about how no one should be buying RPGs and how he didn't want to carry them in his store.
Inclines me to wonder what he did want to carry in his store.
The guys at my local game store are complete knobs. If they aren't being rude they're being lazy or talking trash in the vein of how "group X is ruining gaming".
Whaaaat?!?!?Like an internet message board come to life.
Like an internet message board come to life.
They would boycott themselves over something or another within about 5 mins.Now I'm trying to picture a shop populated by RPGnet...
Another popular site would bludgeon each other to death and survivors would go out for beers.They would boycott themselves over something or another within about 5 mins.
Not my life experience at all.
There was a related Dragons Lair in Bellevue for a time. Nice little store. Closed down a few years ago.*watches everyone talk about how bad their game stores suck*
Y'all mofos need to come to Texas.
Home - Dragon's Lair: Austin Store
dlair.net
Yeah. David Wheeler (original owner of the Austin store) has been trying to get a franchise thing off the ground for about a decade now, to mixed results.There was a related Dragons Lair in Bellevue for a time. Nice little store. Closed down a few years ago.