03-09-2018, 04:09 AM | #41 | |
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In mid '76 Before MELEE came out, moved from our Austin property on Brodie Lane off 290 - now get these directions: "just before 'Convict Hill Rd' comes into Brodie, and if you hit 'W Slaughter Ln' you went too far". I am 100% serious about that! LOL! We didn't even have a normal mailing address back then; it was just some wacky Rural Route code. NOW think what it would have been like as a Jr High kid in '77 after the release of Melee, to ask other kids to come over to play this new game where you chop each other up, IF you don't fill each other up with arrows first,.. and use those directions to your house LOL! I couldn't have found Metagaming back in the day, as I didn't start driving until around 1980. Even if I had known about the TFT Play-Test Sessions, the address printed on the Microgame Boxes would have lead me to a Post Office over on the other side of the Colorado River and UT - and I probably would not have thought to simply write and ask where they were physically located LOL! As a teen, all kinds of wacky projections go on through your mind, like: If I had called to ask if i could join the Play-Test Group, what if HT might have told me: "If you're too dumb to find us, you're too dumb play with us" <click> Dial Tone And, What if HT might have asked me where I lived? "Uh,..on Brodie, near,..Uh,.. Convict Hill,.. ugh,...before,.. ugh... Slaughter Ln,... " <click> Dial-Tone So we both had bad timing; and I just had a worse address . Last edited by Jim Kane; 03-09-2018 at 04:39 AM. |
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03-09-2018, 08:55 AM | #42 | |
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I got Melee in 9th grade (1979). Actually, I accidentally bought Death Test first. But even though I lacked the rules for combat, I was intrigued. Then a buddy bought Melee and showed it to me. For some odd reason, the individual weapon counters stood out. I was already a Metagaming fan due to Ogre/GEV. So I bought Melee. Then Wizard. I tried a number of ways to use Melee with AD&D, but teenaged AD&D players in my school were utterly hidebound. Then ITL came out. I accidentally bought Advanced Melee first (a recurring theme in my early wargame days) instead of ITL. Then Advanced Wizard because the store was sold out of ITL. Finally, a good while later, ITL was back in stock. In fact, I was on the verge of starting a roleplaying campaign modeled after D&D but using Advanced Melee when I got ITL. My reaction was "Huh. That's an easy way to do characters." I started the first of MANY TFT campaigns a week later. |
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03-09-2018, 11:22 AM | #43 | |||
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I see you are located in Tyler. You would have had ride on the back of one of those AMAZING Smoked Turkeys from Greenberg's for over 200 miles to get down to Austin - before cooking it, of course - and see if you could have picked-up a copy of ITL at Metagaming in-person LOL! |
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03-09-2018, 12:41 PM | #44 | |
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In short, I strongly recommend them to anyone looking for some new adventures to run -- heck, they even have a more-or-less consistent "game world" (which is explained in some detail in the "Campaign Guide" included in Fire in the Streets). For those interested in taking a look, here's a link to the DCG web page... (Note: I include the link with a bit of trepidation, but rely on Steve Jackson's comment a month or two ago regarding including links to places where things can be purchased as permitting this -- since technically, I guess, DCG is in "competition" with SJG. Also, since SJG doesn't actually have anything TFT on the market yet, I don't feel I'm cutting into their profits by doing this. However, if Steve or Andrew feel differently about it, I trust they'll either ask me to delete the link, or do so themselves...) Last edited by JLV; 03-09-2018 at 12:47 PM. |
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03-09-2018, 12:52 PM | #45 |
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Re: Addressing the Elephant in the room (No, not you Sir! Please, sit down.)
This kind of comment is extremely off-putting. It certainly isn't going to be helpful when it comes time to convince new gamers to try TFT. You can have whatever opinions you like about the merits of various RPGs, but you need to express them in ways that aren't derogatory to people who have different views.
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03-09-2018, 01:03 PM | #46 | |
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03-09-2018, 01:35 PM | #47 | |
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03-09-2018, 04:05 PM | #48 | |
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LOL! We did get a proper address after we moved,... just so TSG could be delivered ;-) |
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03-09-2018, 06:59 PM | #49 | |
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03-09-2018, 07:58 PM | #50 | |
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