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Games and RPG's of My Mis-spent Youth
John Peterson
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Illinois
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So I was thinking about the Card and Board Games and RPG's I played or at least dabbled in when I was in junior high and high school and decided to put together a list of myself reminiscing....
My original "game group" was just myself and my two younger brothers (Bill and Joe). It eventually evolved to include my friend Tim (who badgered me mercilessly to get included) and later opened up to a lot of other kids in the small town I grew up in.
I originally thought I'd put everything in chronological order, but, after seeing the number of games I wanted to include, I couldn't remember (beyond the first few) what order I got into them.
Interestingly enough, of the RPG's I've listed, I believe I've only actually PLAYED one of the following games as a player during this time (Twilight: 2000), and it was only once. In my entire life, I've probably played the role of a player maybe 5-10 times, with all other plays being as the Gamemaster or Dungeonmaster.
I've locked down additions to the list because this is my misspent youth, but please feel free to add comments!
So, without further ado, here are the games of my mispent youth!
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Learned this one from Fred and got my own copy shortly thereafter. We played it quite a bit and enjoyed it for some time.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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I got this one too, based on the fun we had with Axis & Allies. It didn't see as much play as A&A, but it still got some table time.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Started to play by mail with Fred. He was adjudicating, Tim, another friend, and myself were the central powers, and he was going to have three of his buddies play the other powers. It never really got going (play by mail was too slow for teenagers), but I was hooked nonetheless.
I still play this game today.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Another purchase by Joe at the end of our Palladium Phase. I don't think we ever played it (at least I didn't). It just didn't appeal to me....
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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This one signalled the beginning of the end of the Palladium Books phase. It had a lot of cool ideas, but the revamping of the "Megaverse" really rubbed me the wrong way. It added a lot of accounting and killed the ease and flexibility of the game system.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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I knew better. After getting Rifts and knowing 2nd Edition of PFRPG was revamped to the new system, I still purchased the new edition. As expected, I just couldn't accept it. We played the 1st Edition a while yet longer, but eventually we left it behind.
Part of it was that we were probably burning out on the Fantasy genre, too, but that burnout, coupled with the unacceptable (in our eyes) changes to the system pushed us out of it.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Picked this one up because it looked cool. What can I say? This one turned out to be a really good one from a game company I wasn't familiar with - GDW. Coupled with my friend Fred's knowledge of modern warfare and technology and my interest in 20th century warfare, it was a perfect match.
We played it a good amount and I bought a lot of supplements. Probably my third favorite (after Mechanoids and PFRPG) on this list....
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Based on our enjoyment of Twilight: 2000, we bought Traveller: 2300. It looked cool, had cool weapons, but the books weren't well organized, and we decided the game was unplayable. Probably prematurely ended what would have been our "GDW phase".
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Picked this one up because it looked good. It had what we considered "realistic" weapon rules - an M16 really could empty its magazine in 3 seconds! We had great fun with it, but it was mostly for one-off games now and again.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Picked this one up for something off the wall. It was zany and crazy, and we played a few good games of it. It just turned into mass chaos (but fun mass chaos), and the body count was unbelievable....
Fond memories, even though it didn't see a lot of play.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Fred showed me this game. It looked pretty cool although completely different from most of the games I'd played (it was pre-Beyond the Supernatural).
Its system was much different than what I'd seen and we played it once, but it didn't resonate with my group so it was relegated to the shelf.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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I spent an entire evening rolling up a character for this game. It took FOREVER. By the time we were done, it was time to go home. I never played this game.
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John Peterson
United States
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Illinois
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Joe picked this up. It looked cool, had great graphics and presentation, and looked complicated. I was entering into the "I have a girlfriend" phase, so I didn't have time to figure it out, let alone play it, so I never played it.
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