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You know you're getting old when... [Gaming]

Started by HappyDaze, November 16, 2021, 07:15:31 PM

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Fighterboy

#45
November 24, 2021, 09:11:26 AM
Quote from: Greentongue on November 24, 2021, 08:23:55 AM
... and you can remember the ANGST when Vampire: The Masquerade was released.

Twilight was all the rage at the time if I recall.

Nah, Twilight was much later. V:tM was when the Anne Rice books (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat) were popular.

Fighterboy

#46
November 24, 2021, 09:14:50 AM
You know you're getting old when you remember the outrage in the letters page of White Dwarf over the very concept of a "limited nuclear exchange" in Twilight: 2000.

Trinculoisdead

#47
November 26, 2021, 11:07:59 PM
You know you're not getting old quite yet when you still miss half the references in these types of thread.

Jam The MF

#48
November 27, 2021, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: RandyB on November 17, 2021, 11:38:12 AM
When you looked forward to the release of the AD&D 1e DMG.

Well played.  I say that anyone who was playing D&D before the release of the 1E AD&D DMG, is a true blue old school gamer.  They are the real deal.  Unfortunately, 1E AD&D was fully released when I was 9 years old; and absolutely nobody I knew in my small southern town would have allowed their kids to possess such books.  The DMG cover alone, would have been seen as an image of the devil himself.

I didn't get exposed to D&D, until the mid 1990's. 
Let the Dice, Decide the Outcome.  Accept the Results.

Greentongue

#49
November 27, 2021, 08:33:56 PM
You know you're old when you bought a copy of Magic Realm "fantasy adventure board game" when it came out and thought you could play it with friends.
(I actually did set it up once.)

You know you're old when you bought a copy of "Red Moon / White Bear" in a zip lock bag and heard this game called "RuneQuest" was going to be released.

Reckall

#50
November 30, 2021, 09:14:24 PM
Quote from: Greentongue on November 27, 2021, 08:33:56 PM
You know you're old when you bought a copy of Magic Realm "fantasy adventure board game" when it came out and thought you could play it with friends.
(I actually did set it up once.)

Magic Realm was my gateway to D&D. We had house rules to play with a "party".
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

zend0g

#51
December 01, 2021, 11:58:58 PM Last Edit: December 02, 2021, 12:01:35 AM by zend0g
Getting frustrated with TSR's cheap dice as the edges wore down on the d20 and they would roll and roll and roll and roll...
Flinching at the memory of stepping on a d4.
Moving up from using crayons to fill in the numbers on your dice to using paint pens. 
"Roll percentage dice?" *grabs two d20s.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest person, I will find something in them to be offended.

spon

#52
December 02, 2021, 06:52:51 AM
You know you're getting old when you used to wait for the next copy of White Dwarf for the awesome D&D/Traveller/CoC/Runequest content.

oggsmash

#53
December 02, 2021, 12:54:17 PM
Quote from: Jam The MF on November 27, 2021, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: RandyB on November 17, 2021, 11:38:12 AM
When you looked forward to the release of the AD&D 1e DMG.

Well played.  I say that anyone who was playing D&D before the release of the 1E AD&D DMG, is a true blue old school gamer.  They are the real deal.  Unfortunately, 1E AD&D was fully released when I was 9 years old; and absolutely nobody I knew in my small southern town would have allowed their kids to possess such books.  The DMG cover alone, would have been seen as an image of the devil himself.

I didn't get exposed to D&D, until the mid 1990's.

  I lived in a small southern town and had the DMG in hand in 1982.  I found the reactions mixed, but there were most definitely people who would not tolerate their kids having any contact with those books at all.  Some, who were initially concerned (like my parents) read through the book, and then shrugged wondering what the fuss was about.  I did have a pal a few years later, who had his father forbid him from playing and had him destroy his monster manual 2.  I never really understood that one, as his father was not really very religious and rarely, if ever attended church.

Jam The MF

#54
December 02, 2021, 02:40:13 PM
Quote from: oggsmash on December 02, 2021, 12:54:17 PM
Quote from: Jam The MF on November 27, 2021, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: RandyB on November 17, 2021, 11:38:12 AM
When you looked forward to the release of the AD&D 1e DMG.

Well played.  I say that anyone who was playing D&D before the release of the 1E AD&D DMG, is a true blue old school gamer.  They are the real deal.  Unfortunately, 1E AD&D was fully released when I was 9 years old; and absolutely nobody I knew in my small southern town would have allowed their kids to possess such books.  The DMG cover alone, would have been seen as an image of the devil himself.

I didn't get exposed to D&D, until the mid 1990's.

  I lived in a small southern town and had the DMG in hand in 1982.  I found the reactions mixed, but there were most definitely people who would not tolerate their kids having any contact with those books at all.  Some, who were initially concerned (like my parents) read through the book, and then shrugged wondering what the fuss was about.  I did have a pal a few years later, who had his father forbid him from playing and had him destroy his monster manual 2.  I never really understood that one, as his father was not really very religious and rarely, if ever attended church.


And now he can visit his father's gravesite, and read aloud the replacement copy he purchased online.
Let the Dice, Decide the Outcome.  Accept the Results.

oggsmash

#55
December 02, 2021, 02:56:07 PM
Quote from: Jam The MF on December 02, 2021, 02:40:13 PM
Quote from: oggsmash on December 02, 2021, 12:54:17 PM
Quote from: Jam The MF on November 27, 2021, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: RandyB on November 17, 2021, 11:38:12 AM
When you looked forward to the release of the AD&D 1e DMG.

Well played.  I say that anyone who was playing D&D before the release of the 1E AD&D DMG, is a true blue old school gamer.  They are the real deal.  Unfortunately, 1E AD&D was fully released when I was 9 years old; and absolutely nobody I knew in my small southern town would have allowed their kids to possess such books.  The DMG cover alone, would have been seen as an image of the devil himself.

I didn't get exposed to D&D, until the mid 1990's.

  I lived in a small southern town and had the DMG in hand in 1982.  I found the reactions mixed, but there were most definitely people who would not tolerate their kids having any contact with those books at all.  Some, who were initially concerned (like my parents) read through the book, and then shrugged wondering what the fuss was about.  I did have a pal a few years later, who had his father forbid him from playing and had him destroy his monster manual 2.  I never really understood that one, as his father was not really very religious and rarely, if ever attended church.


And now he can visit his father's gravesite, and read aloud the replacement copy he purchased online.
Well, his dad was a good guy over all, and I liked him.  He could be a bit head strong, and I think this was right around the time the satanic panic was literally full bore (I think it was 1984-85).  I have serious doubts he ever thought that sort of thing, and the odd thing was, supposedly his dad did not care if he still came over to my house and played, which he did, so it was strange.  Teachers and school folks also had some interesting reactions in the bible belt around that time, again a bit of range.  I do remember the scout troop at first allowing games on campouts, and then a banning...which was also right around 1984, so oh well.

Zalman

#56
December 03, 2021, 10:51:30 AM
... when you wonder who did such a perfectly clean job of filling in the numbers on this black 20-sided die with liquid paper.
Old School? Back in my day we just called it "School."

Greentongue

#57
December 03, 2021, 01:59:45 PM
You know you're getting old when the paper of your character sheets are starting to yellow with age.

Greentongue

#58
December 06, 2021, 07:34:57 PM
When your "Alarums and Excursions" posting was for that new game "RuneQuest".

dungeon crawler

#59
January 02, 2022, 04:11:42 PM
You know you're getting old when you played D&D before the Satanic Panic.
You know you're getting old when you your character sheet was a piece of note book paper.
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