The world, all of them, are in mourning!

[Aren Jay]

EGG died tuesday morning at 69.

Ernest Gary Gygax

The father and co creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

Skimper
Exadoor
Eol Lenwe of Dorthonion
Omijar
Tinlin the Fool
and the rest of my characters are all standing, head down for a moment of silence.

[freakstatus]

Do you play that game alot?

[Aren Jay]

Not on paper lately. Not for 20 years anyway.

But I play on the computer every other day.

It gets boring sometimes but that is when you make your own adventures.

I have a large number of characters, several hundred.

I play at all levels although I also have very high level characters too.

I do not cheat, although I do make my own magic items, not super powerful ones but fancy enough.

My Tinlin the Fool character is my hopeless character. Minimal abilities and a bit crazy. Really fun to play.

I'm a big time gamer, I like Hard games and always play at the hardest levels, on computers. On Paper it works out different, and I usually end up DMing. On my Intellivision, which my Mom won back in the 80's, I was undefeated on the sea battle game. Everyone, all my friend eventually wouldn't play anymore. Havn't played that in ages but I still remember playing.

I still remember the last time I played that game, who I played against and how I won. Same with the last time I played paper DnD. Even the last three Games I DMed, and a few others. I even remember the first game I played back in the 70's. Fond memories.

:)

I also have a collection of the Lead figures. About 2000 of them. Most are in a box but I still have around 500 on display, including the very first figure I bought back when I was really little.

I started playing war games when I was two. I used to roll the dice and watch my Dad and a Neighbour play board war games. Little paper units, etc...

Computer games were really good back in the mid late 80's. Very open ended and while the graphics were not good, the game play made up for it. Now games are so simple being made for 8 year olds it just doesn't make up for it.

Recently I started playing and later making missions for Operation Flashpoint, but online games were beset with morons who didn't know anything or just kids you liked to shot stuff. Very realistic and very difficult. None of this get shot 10 times and run away stuff. Get shot in OFP and you died.

ftp://www.flashpoint1985.com/flashpoint/demos/ofp_demo_v142.zip
http://3dgxfer1p.3dgamers.com/3dgamers/games/opflashpoint/Missions/resistancedemo.zip
The second one downloads faster.
If you want to give it a try.

[Black_Noise]

wow i was going to really bash the game cause i thought this was gonna be a joke post but... ill bite my tounge

[Egon Spengler]

http://www.wegotcards.com/cards/friends/insults/nerd.GIF

[magindat]

This explains so much....

[RoyLPita]

I thought it was cool to not be invited to play.

[Egon Spengler]

http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/images/2007/07/27/frink.gif

[Motorhead350]

Come on now. Without this guy we wouldn't have had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

[Blk Mamba]

Without this guy we wouldn't have had anyone to pick on!

[Aren Jay]

I play online alot too.

I was a part of SHO in the Starwars Jedi games.
Used to play I76 and later the not so good I82. Two of the best car games out there. Think Dukes of hazzard with guns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_'76

Plus all the first person shooter games.

Battlefield 2 was one of the best. And the mechwarrior games are great fun when no one cheats, although there are alot of Assault mechs waliking around.

I'm not a Hardcore gamer like Thresh, but just good.

[freakstatus]

...and he's also immune to the effects of ridicule! Bahhahaha...

[88LTDCV351]

I used to play a lot of RPGs, wargames, and stuff like that. Only played DnD a few times before that friend moved away. Anyway, got more into computer games and video games since it took a lot of work out of the manual rule books and dice stuff.

The sad thing about wargames is a lot of the companies that used to make some real good WWII etc. games are all gone. Can't even find too many good ones on computer anymore. I'm into the Russion Front due to the battle between two evils which kind of interested me.

Since college though, I've found other interests and hobbies.

[Egon Spengler]

Why am I the one that has to post a picture of this guy up for you nerds!?!
TMNT is pretty cool... I'll give him that!
http://projects.thomashandkeefe.com/note/image/10/normal/wp_31.jpg

[Egon Spengler]

http://www.tvbabble.com/userimages/user2448_1161654149a.jpg

[Aren Jay]

So I wonder what will happen to Mordenkainen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordenkainen