I thanked the guy who introduced me to RPGs tonight. Felt great. If you can, try it and let me know how it goes.
Quote from: mcbobbo;589083I thanked the guy who introduced me to RPGs tonight. Felt great. If you can, try it and let me know how it goes.
I thanked my cousin on a French message boards a few years ago. It felt great.
I haven't seen the guy who introduced me to RPGs in about 15-20 years. He stopped playing by 1984 when he became obsessed with cars and girls, and I doubt he'd even care if I told him thanks.
Quote from: flyerfan1991;589089I haven't seen the guy who introduced me to RPGs in about 15-20 years. He stopped playing by 1984 when he became obsessed with cars and girls, and I doubt he'd even care if I told him thanks.
That was pretty close to my experience, actually, but it was still fun.
I would love to thank him, but he died a hero in the Gulf War. Sleep well with the Lord Sean!
Quote from: mcbobbo;589091That was pretty close to my experience, actually, but it was still fun.
Did you actually seek him out? The reason why I'm asking is that it'd take a lot of research for me to track him down.
When I finished and published my first game, I thanked my older brother as I gave him a copy. He seemed really humbled.
I introduced myself to RPGs. I thank myself every time I have a good game.
Quote from: mcbobbo;589083I thanked the guy who introduced me to RPGs tonight. Felt great. If you can, try it and let me know how it goes.
I thanked myself for introducing me to RPGs.
It did, in fact, feel rather great.
Dear TSR,
Thanks for placing ads in comic books, and for creating the "Black Box".
Dear Toys "R" Us,
Thanks for carrying TSR products in your board game aisle.
Sincerely,
The Were-Grognard
P.S. I already thanked Jeff Easly for the Red Dragon art that caught my eye, and was lucky enough to get to thank both Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson for years of entertainment while I was at Gen Con.
Thanks Mum!
Thank you, Gary.
I bought a copy of B2 and used it as my only D&D "game book" (there's enough inside that you can intuit how a lot of the game mechanics work, at least in the version published for Holmes Basic). Carefully reading it gave me a taste of how to run and play a game.
Everyone else who I knew in my elementary school at the time who played D&D were freaks and assholes. Same for middle school, same for HS. All I learned was that my peer group gave my mom the screaming heebie-jeebies enough to push her over the edge into full on Satanic Panic, and the small mountain of D&D "stuff" I was amassing was locked away until I sold it for some insane goddamn reason when I was in college.
So I don't thank them for anything. "The guy..." was Gary, not those shitlords.
Quote from: mcbobbo;589083I thanked the guy who introduced me to RPGs tonight. Felt great. If you can, try it and let me know how it goes.
Unfortunately, my high school best friend, who introduced me to RPG's, ate a bullet at the Disney World Campground in 1981.
I learned about wargames watching my Dad play his next door neighbor Mike in 1974/75, and then getting sucked into games when my dad got tired of playing.
I already had a really great collection of 1/72 Airfix and Revell army men going by then along with maybe a couple dozen Hasagawa Panzer III's IV's, Panthers, Tigers, Hetzers, a Jagdpanzer, Several Kettenrad and Motorcycle kits, several Shermans, several Grants, a bunch of Stuarts, a Chafee, a bunch of M3a1 Halftracks, an M32 Quad 50 AA Halftrack, PAk 50's PAK 75's, 37 & 57mm antitank guns, jeeps, trucks, maybe half a dozen Bren carriers, along with a couple Crusaders and a Cromwell tank and aircraft too. Lots of Zero's along with a couple of the Japanese Airfield kits, a decent collection including P-38's, P40's, a pair of Spitfires, a P47, a P51, Me-109s, and Me262 jet, and Bombers that included a Junkers JU-88, a Lancaster, a B-24, A B-25j Mitchell that would always flop back onto it's tail, with the nosewheel going into the air cause it was a poorly designed model and my favorite for minis games a Junkers JU-52 transport.
Always wanted a 1/72 Sherman Firefly and never got around to buying one.
Troops included hordes of American, German, and Japanese Infantry, Gurkhas, US Marines, American and German paratroopers, Russian Infantry, and also a smaller collection of WWI Germans, French, British, Yanks, along with the bicycle infantry
I had all sorts of accessories too including bunkers, sandbag emplacements, watchtowers, barbed wire (we made out of regular wire and spray painted silver), bastions, revetments, redoubts, and just some regular berms.
For introducing me to RPGs though, I'd have to thank Doug. He was the college ROTC guy that came back from school looking for some new blood for his games, and he lived across the street from my friend Paul. The three of us (and a few more friends) got together for alot of games, whenever he was on vacation.
P.S. Wish I had that wargaming collection now. I actually had all that built and painted by 75. It got whittled down considerable over the years, sometimes when we played, we played our wargames outdoors and actually burned the tanks, troops, and planes (back then it cost next to nothing to buy all that stuff!!!). The burning plastic made an ultra-realistic black battlefield smoke. Wish I had taken some photos of the epic battles we conducted as well.
Quote from: flyerfan1991;589111Did you actually seek him out? The reason why I'm asking is that it'd take a lot of research for me to track him down.
On Facebook only, so not very much effort.
I don't even know if the guy who introduced me to D&D is alive or not anymore. Been years since I have seen him.
The guy that introduced me was just another kid in my class who had the red box and wanted me to DM because he figured I was the "smart kid" who might actually understand how the rules work.
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