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True 80s RPG Experience!

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22 Aug 2017 22:58 - 22 Aug 2017 23:09 #252921 by Mr. White
Put aside all the retro clones and silly dice, this eBay listing right here (for only $45 shipped!) is the most accurate 80s RPG experience I've seen for sale.

This is how it was folks!
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23 Aug 2017 18:55 #253000 by jason10mm
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Hah, that is a great set, already sold!

I picked up Knight Hawks a while back, and fortunately most Star Frontiers stuff is free on the web. Doesn't match having the boxed set with the counters and maps though. I used to have massive battles with all that stuff!

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23 Aug 2017 19:05 #253001 by Mr. White
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yeah. my point wasnt so much which 80s rpg it was....though Star Frontiers is fantatic...but that it was all bound up in a legit Trapper Keeper.

That's how my buddies and I had our d&d basic and expert sets. tossed the boxes...into the Keepers.

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23 Aug 2017 19:37 #253005 by boothwah
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My first experience in role-playing was at a friends house when I was and his older brother whipped out Star Frontiers - I was in 3rd grade. I finished my bug dude with extra appendages to fire extra guns first, so I got to read Deities and Demigods while they finished their characters. I can not find words to explain how awesome playing on a paper map of some space mall felt and how transformative it was. I was smitten. Me and my friends chipped in to buy our own version but somehow it turned into the D&D red box by the time we got to Kay Bee Toys.

Man, we must have killed Bargle like 13 times that summer.

We ended up buying the expert set too and I ran Isle of Dread all through 4th and 5th grade. We were convinced that anything that had a TSR logo on it had to be good. I bought Dawn Patrol - we played the hell out of that. Gangbusters, yup....5th graders playing as prohibition era cops. And then they started carrying the FASERIP Marvel system at the local department store - That was my campaign for lunch and recess in 5th and 6th grade.

Junior HIgh, I had sprung for my own set of AD&D books, and talked my Social Studies teacher to run a game for us during our free period. It ended up turning into an elective class my 8th grade year.

Man, I remember the Elmore illustrations in those early books - especially Star Frontiers. Everything in my head has coated that game with Stardust and magic because of what and when it was. I haven't held that product in my hands for like 25 years. I know I could get a rip of it for my Ipad, but I would love to find the old boxed set, even in some much loved fashion.
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24 Aug 2017 10:00 #253043 by SuperflyPete
Twilight 2000 is up there with that.

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24 Aug 2017 12:27 #253057 by boothwah
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You know what's sad, when I reread that, I realize what a crapfest my 90's rpq experiences where - I bought and read a lot of RPG sourcebooks.

I just bought a box of 45 Rifts sourcebooks/campaign books and rulebooks at a garage sale for $5. I have no freaking idea why, other than the fact my mind was hearkening back to the days before cell phones and we had to read on the crapper.

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24 Aug 2017 12:36 - 24 Aug 2017 12:37 #253058 by Mr. White
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I think your first post was one of the best ones I've read around here all year.

Even though my son and I are both playing AoS, I've really tried not to push any of my gaming onto him and encourage him to forge and find his own. He doesn't need experience and games handed to him from dad, but to experience that joy of self investigation. It's the only way for the games to be coated in stardust and magic for him and his generation. With AoS, it cam about because he would pick up and read my White Dwarf's on his own. He came to me wanting to play. He never did that with BB or DB or anything else, so I gave in and we're exploring the world of AoS together.

I'm not sure it's possible, with the over-saturation of information, accessibility, and titles, but I hope he's finding the magic as it were in his own childhood.

I have no idea if the above statements are conveying what I mean...
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24 Aug 2017 12:54 #253062 by Gary Sax
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^this 100% makes sense. I didn't love Rifts and White Wolf stuff because my dad told me how much he liked them. I liked it because it was orthogonal to what anyone in my family was into and it was *mine*

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24 Aug 2017 13:01 - 24 Aug 2017 13:03 #253064 by Mr. White
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That's what I mean.

So far, at 10yrs old, it looks like Pokemon and Splatoon are his games. Perhaps it'll be more tabletop when he gets a little older and he and his friends are moving around more freely.

With the two above games, he reads about them, plays them competitively, etc. I haven't gone into them at all but only to serve as an opponent when he needs it or drive him to tourneys. The last thing he needs is dad tuning his decks for him. It's his game.
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11 Oct 2018 03:47 - 11 Oct 2018 13:26 #282974 by zamakli2
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I recently finished a campaign of D&D pen a paper game (1st & 2nd ed ruleset, ya, old school, lot's of thinking, lots of fun!) with a bunch of friends. It was quite an adventure; fun, intense and quite epic. It lasted about 6 months. The game is done now and due to life and schedules, I don't have a P&P game going right now so I decided to get into a PC RPG for a while. Tutuapp 9apps Showbox
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