twesterm on 04 March 2008
| fkusumot said: Sad day for me. I started with Chain Mail and then onto Blackhawk and 1st edition DnD in 1976. My gaming group split time between Avalon Hill games (D-Day, Tactics II, Gettysburg, Diplomacy), wargame miniatures (Tractics) and DnD. By 1978 the DnD group split off for a twice/week campaign. It sure didn't help my grades but it was a lot of fun. I wish I had met him but I never did meet him at any of the GenCons. Such is life. The RPG genre, and especially the western RPG games, owes Gary Gygax a big thanks as the inspiration and template for most of what came after DnD. |
Diplomacy rocks. We use to get fairly serious about that game where we would have little whiteboards to write our moves, very specific syntax for the boards, and designated diploming spots with maps of the world spread out in whosever apartment we were playing in.
