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Ill search my archives to see if I can find them.  Im pretty sure I have them somewhere on DVD or CD - if not I know a man with a copy.   Send Mail me your e-mail address and Ill mail you them over, Ill also include some PBF stuff.

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Was Paranoia the sci-fi one where everyone was a double agent and nobody knew what was going on? That always sounded quite fun.
Yes it was set in a dystopian future where you lived in a domed city with a super computer that ruled over everyone.  Problem was everyone was a member of a secret society and each society had its own goals, everyone was after everyone else.  

I think that the funniest thing was that even if you died, yoru clones were activated and you played again (failry regularly you died as well)

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Now heres a way to celebrate Gary.  Post all the games you play or have played....

D&D - Started with AD&D in Greyhawk, went back to basic and then continued in with 2nd edition.  In 3rd Ed I currently run a PBF (Play by Forum) game in FR - always looking for ideas and players - more the merrier (well anything over 8 is too much) :D

Call of Cthulu (I Play infrequently on a PBF game), Traveller (I still play in a PBF game which is great), Rune Quest, Paranoia, Judge Dredd (both versions - should we forget), Star Wars (that was a PBEM game using D6 rules), Rolemaster, Spacemaster and MERP.  Since playing PBF, Ive been introduced to Blue Planet and a couple of other game systems whose name escape me.  I also collected the Harn rules and a number of other bits and pieces.  

Tordel do you mean Dragon Warriors (we play this  in another PBF game as a one off take us back to the old days game) instead of Warrior Knights?  Which was release as a series of softback novel size books ( i think I have a copy of the rules (PDF) if you want a look)

Right now I play in a number of games on a PBF  method its the only way I can play or DM and have some time to do all the other things one must do with life.        

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Not really the place to reply but Ill keep it brief.

As I said it looks like a move towards WoW, which may not be a good idea.  A simplification of the 3rd Ed rule set was pretty much a given, this may be a step to far.  Currently, Im willing to buy the PHB and see how it looks, then take it from there.  

Given that my current campaign is set in the Forgotten Realms and huge changes are due to that world.  Ill be looking at each change and each rule individually, seeing if it fits with the tone of my campaigns and what Im trying to achieve.  If it doesnt I wont use it.  

Currently my players are only 3/4th level and my PBF campaign has been running a year or so on and off.  I doubt Ill be converting to the 4th Ed rules anytime in the next 18 months or so, maybe even longer depending on the length of my campaign.  Having said all that I do play CoC, Blue Planet and Traveller, all of which havent had any modernisation of their rulesets.  All of which play perfectly well as they are in PBF games.      

Im not sure Gygax's death has hit me as such, but it certainly brings home that there were more RPGers about than I ever imagined.  Given the eulogies he's recieved.  

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Nah, the box I got was definitely a pinky purple, and had the basic rules and the Keep module, some dice and a crayon. I confess it took me some months to work out what the crayon was for. IIRC there was a red box edition with much nicer dragon art one or two years later.

You are probably correct it was a little later I got into the game, something like 83 or 84 and the group I joined were using the AD&D rules.  Which were a bit of a quantum leap forward from the red box.  

Its moved on a fair bit with the 3rd edition rules (now 3.5), which is actually overcomplicated IMHO.  Though rather poignantly 4th edition is due to be released this year and has some simplification of the rules and a move taking it closer to WoW, than old D&D.  

Ah E. GAry Gygax has spawned a whole generation of dreamers, writers and actors (maybe this is our generations version of amateur dramatics) :D

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Keep on the Borderlands is purple and has terrible kobolds on it.  The basic set was red and had the dragon on the cover.

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Im sure Id have got more A's if it wasnt for this hobby and maybe a better degree.  

It is funny how the whole RPG thing has evolved somewhat.  Much like 2000ad, RPG's (I mean standard RPG's like D&D, Traveller or Paranoia), have grown up with their customers and face a dwindling numbers joining from the youth of today.  Probably due to the same forces, computer games offer a solo RPG experience or CCG's.

Still RPG's seem to exist more and more in a play by forum or a wiki format.  

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would help if I added the link, really

Link: http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/3483/228/" target="_blank">Giving it another go...

Probably the best obituary Ive found on E.Gary Gygax.  

Send it to me fishy, you have my mail address.

You get some types who do shower once a day but in the morning when they get up.

Not that I want to talk about my washing habits, but you do realise you loose a lot of sweat when sleeping?  Id rather have a shower in the morning, you dont have to worry about have a wash before and after sleeping, and it has the advantage of waking you up as well.  

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I dunno, how often does it rain?


***place soapdodging weedgie joke here***

Only if you are a Paisley Skunk

Im always late!

Happy Birthday, you 50ft Queenie!


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I think this thread needs some "Whataboutery" to deflect the general disagreements and other such nonsense.  

I had a piece of toast for lunch today.  What about you?

:D

I really like Mercy Heights, though it did lose its way somewhat in the convoluted RT continuity.  If it had kept Tor Cyan out of it, it would have been a different take on a galactic war story.  

Still worth a reread though, having said that.

If anyone is interested there is a remarkable discussion on this in Jeremy Paxman's English.  Even within England, before a financial north and south divide.  There was a linguistic divide between the two.  Thus providing the linkage between Scots and northern English Dialects.

Of course even these two diverged over a period of time.

For me having a weird accent is funny down here in Middle England.

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