New to the planet, olde school player!
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:45 pm
Greetings one and all,
I am a long time ad&d player and collector, Brightmantle's the name- as in the keeper of secrets. I've been lurking here at pad&d for six months and decided to make my joining the community official. Happy to be here. So I guess I'll begin by sharing my gaming background.
I began playing d&d in 1988 in my 7th to 8th grade year of school. Our group began with Frank Mentzer's BECMI which we played through 1989 when a big brother of one Justin France came home from college and introduced us to Gary's ad&d. Man, from then on I was Hooked! Thus began my love affair with ad&d. We had years of great fun playing 1st and moved on to 2nd in the early 1990's and have continued playing and collecting tsr era Dungeons and Dragons ever since. Ad&d is absolutely my favorite game, I have tried but do not grock the post 2000 era games (wotc&d) no offence meant, it's not fun to me and I find it overly and needlessly complicated. So for me 1999 was a very sad year. Not one to play what I didn't dig, I have kept on rocking Ad&d for both the 3e and 4e era with no signs of stopping. Has it really been almost 26 years now? I guess I'm a grognard- and I'm proud of that.
So anyway, I dig artists from the ad&d era (Elmore, Easley, Caldwell, Parkinson, Brom) and collect masterwork series mini's from these fantasy legends. My wife and son play D&D with me and she is an accomplished painter so we have nearly 300 figs, we play with figures more often than not . Mini's are fun!
I began playing in a time when the game was being persecuted heavily by m.a.d.d. and have personally faced the vitriol of the simple, uneducated, and ignorant: when I was a teen I was made to destroy my gaming material in front of my parents who had been given the book "A stairway to hell" which derides d&d falsely - by a concerned mother. I have payed a steep price to be a gamer, and was a pariah growing up. So when I tell you I am a proud ad&der know that I mean it. "waves" Hi Mom!
I am happy to be a member of pad&d, and I look forward to good times discussing this awesome hobby with you good folks,
I plan to be active and hope to become a valued and productive member of the Borg of d&d.
Sorry for the wall o' text. Bonus points for anyone know who Brightmantle is and where the reference comes from.
Happy gaming folks.
I am a long time ad&d player and collector, Brightmantle's the name- as in the keeper of secrets. I've been lurking here at pad&d for six months and decided to make my joining the community official. Happy to be here. So I guess I'll begin by sharing my gaming background.
I began playing d&d in 1988 in my 7th to 8th grade year of school. Our group began with Frank Mentzer's BECMI which we played through 1989 when a big brother of one Justin France came home from college and introduced us to Gary's ad&d. Man, from then on I was Hooked! Thus began my love affair with ad&d. We had years of great fun playing 1st and moved on to 2nd in the early 1990's and have continued playing and collecting tsr era Dungeons and Dragons ever since. Ad&d is absolutely my favorite game, I have tried but do not grock the post 2000 era games (wotc&d) no offence meant, it's not fun to me and I find it overly and needlessly complicated. So for me 1999 was a very sad year. Not one to play what I didn't dig, I have kept on rocking Ad&d for both the 3e and 4e era with no signs of stopping. Has it really been almost 26 years now? I guess I'm a grognard- and I'm proud of that.
So anyway, I dig artists from the ad&d era (Elmore, Easley, Caldwell, Parkinson, Brom) and collect masterwork series mini's from these fantasy legends. My wife and son play D&D with me and she is an accomplished painter so we have nearly 300 figs, we play with figures more often than not . Mini's are fun!
I began playing in a time when the game was being persecuted heavily by m.a.d.d. and have personally faced the vitriol of the simple, uneducated, and ignorant: when I was a teen I was made to destroy my gaming material in front of my parents who had been given the book "A stairway to hell" which derides d&d falsely - by a concerned mother. I have payed a steep price to be a gamer, and was a pariah growing up. So when I tell you I am a proud ad&der know that I mean it. "waves" Hi Mom!
I am happy to be a member of pad&d, and I look forward to good times discussing this awesome hobby with you good folks,
I plan to be active and hope to become a valued and productive member of the Borg of d&d.
Sorry for the wall o' text. Bonus points for anyone know who Brightmantle is and where the reference comes from.
Happy gaming folks.
and welcome! Im pretty sure I'm the young guy around here (glad I misse all the insanity) but I've been playing for a while.