(urth) OT: Anathem

[Rjyan Kadwallader]

ha, that's great!!

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

>
> I was in the service when D&D first came out, and beginning to experience
> the kind of slack an infantryman may experience if he is not in a combat
> zone and knows the way things work. So after I finished my work for the
> day (which would normally take an hour or three) I would mosey on down to
> the rec hall, where I would play D&D with various other guys doing the
> same thing I was doing. If anyone asked us what we were about, we were
> doing small unit tactical exercises.
>
>
> .
>
>
> > 2008/9/20 Rjyan Kadwallader <cexwell at gmail.com>
> >
> >> I think I would let Gary slide, it's not cool to pick on D&D kids they
> >> have
> >> enough problems as it is.
> >>
> >>
> > And didn't he die a few months back?
> >
> > As I understand (from reading Michael Moorcock's comments on this), early
> > D&D was very upfront about the sources it used - apparently they used to
> > cite Tolkien, Moorcock, Leiber, Vance, et al. in the guidebooks. Now -
> not
> > so much.
> >
> > I never played myself, but surely there are some "D&D kids" here? My
> > parents
> > were always suspicious of it, so it wasn't really an option for me. I got
> > my
> > watered-down fantasy through Japanese videogames, thank you very much.
> >
> > -Matt
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