I've Got My Twelve-Sided Die

[robotnik2004]

Dungeons and Dragons Club, Somebody's Yearbook, California, 1980.

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[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Capital suggestions. I fully intend to when I get a chance to go through my photo albums. Brant can afford to laugh - he wasn't even a zygote in 1980, but I looked a lot like some of those kids (well, in the mid 1980s - I'm a few years younger than they). I posted it not because they are alien to me but because they are emphatically not.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Yeah in 1980 I was 9, which meant I was probably playing Chivalry and Sorcery. Our schools RPG club probably dates from like 1982. I'll have to ask my mother if she has thos pictures, because I certainly don't. I don't think I have any pictures of my life pre-Jess. Make of that what you will.

[bluegargantua]

So...D&D (and C&S) are not...y'know, Candyland. They're pretty hardcore games. These days I wouldn't even attempt to learn a new game as complicated as D&D -- I only kept up with 3rd ed. out of tradition. It's not that I can't learn the rules, it's just that I don't think baroque rulesets mean it's a good game.

But yeah, I'm around 8-9 years old and I'm tinkering with D&D, Avalon Hill Wargames, I even got into Star Fleet Battles -- Really frickin' complex games. I'm amazed that I comprehended it as well as I did. I'm amazed that any of us did.

I guess it's no different than being able to rattle off all 250 Pokemon and distinguishing characteristics are today. But still...

Tom

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Yeah we were doing Rolemaster, C&S, Space Opera, some Star Fleet Battles all before we were 12. D&D was big, I was just a difficult little bastard even then.

Nowadays I can't handle anything with more than 5 stats reliably.

Emphatically not alien. In fact there's me!

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Back row on the left. That was me. Styling with my flowing locks and skater cred. Not a loser like these other kids. I'm just here 'cause I like the game. :)

The kid with the PHB looks just like an old friend and fellow gamer I knew at that age. Friggin' weird. 'Course all blonde haired blue eyed aryan youth probably looked like that back then. Or maybe he was a boy from Brazil...

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Back row on the left. That was me.

Really? You looked kinda like a young Steve Buscemi.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Well, truth be told, in 1980 I was seven. But when I was fourteen (that's about how old these kids are right?) I started growing my hair in my first faltering steps of quasi-teenage rebellion... that and the shock of going from a junior high class of 20-something kids to a regional high school freshman class of 500-odd kids. That'll make you desperately seek an identity pretty damn fast! Small fish and big pond and all.

I just WISH we had a D&D club in school.