Hello My Friends,
Uh, it's been a crazy few weeks with strange mental health crap, an emotional hang out with Fangirl, runny nose from the pollening, and Family/Cow drama in the holler, not my family thankfully. So hopefully if my mood, and Bob can hold it together we can get this post out.
A few weeks ago I guess now. I was pondering on back in the day playing TTRPG board games with my friends. I'm lucky I have friends who are nerdy like me or have nerdy aligned interests. So I thought I'd take you back to some of the shenanigans my peeps and I got into in our late teens early twenties. As I was coming up with this it reminded of Lady of the Manners in her Gothic Charm School post talking about past times of Goths, so I guess this the nerd version.
So the stories I'm about to spin revolve around two games:
Dragon Strike: I think this was the first of these games the Captain introduced us to. It released in 1993 and came with an instructional video. It has a dragon counter to mark how many turns you've done in your objective and if you fail to complete it before you reach a certain number of turns a dragon would get added to the board for you to take on. No pressure right?
HeroQuest: This game was released by Milton-Bradly in 1989, the year I started Kindergarten! Like the one above this box came with everything dice, minis, terrain boards, instructions, everything you need to start playing a little session.
We Made Our Own Sound Effects:
One of the things we did while playing these games is when a monster or character died and we removed the mini we'd do heavenly choir sounds as they were ascended to their maker. It was simple but it added a little humor to the game. Then there was the time we actually played victory music after a win. I don't think we'd successfully won against the GM Captain either since we'd started playing these games or playing that day, but we finally won. Now fun fact at this time the Captain hated the Crazy Frog. So we thought what better way to celebrate than playing We Are The Champions the Crazy Frog version. Adding a little salt to that burn of defeat.
Jareth Made Me Do It or Crazy Character Creations:
So at some point during this time period the Captain showed us the Jim Henson classic The Labyrinth, and were introduced to David Bowie's spray painted on pants. *cue my aunt screaming* Well, while setting up a game I had the mini for my fighter cause I always ended up being the fighter, and upon looking at him I saw his pants was a David Bowie situation. I showed this to my peeps who had a laugh, and it just got worse, we christened him: Grog Skinny Pants and His Awesome Pants of Tightness, which is how he introduced himself in the style of an 80's/90's body builder. Yes I played him with pride. He sadly perished in one of the games, but it's been said he lives on in other universes, especially when I'm playing a male protagonist in a video game and I need a name.
So at this time I had a cat named Merlin, the great founding ancestor of the Vampire Kitty. Captain was over at my house playing a game with my sister and me on the bed and Merlin was sitting on the bed, so we made him a character, a wizard, what else would we have him play? Sadly our squishy wizard perished, as did Merlin in real life sadly.
The Most Epic Spell Move Ever:
This has to be the most awesome move I have seen in a game I've played. Our objective was to escort a covered wagon safely to the destination. The people after it fell upon us and I think the wagon was taking damage. It was here when my sister gets this idea, she asked the GM Captain if she could use her invisibility spell to make the wagon invisible. Captain thought a moment and she was like "I don't know". A quick rule check showed there was nothing saying she couldn't so it was allowed. Now the wagon seemingly vanished and as long as it didn't get hit it would stay hidden, and since the attackers were more concerned about opponents they could see the wagon passed through to it's destination successfully.
Well my friends I hope you enjoyed that trip down memory lane. I'm looking forward to the next few weeks with the upcoming Free Comic Book Day and the Spring WNC Comic Con! Of course I'll post about it. Hope you all have a good weekend and play some games.
*Thrifty Geek*
