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I'm still the primary game player in our house. My wife's MS has effected her hand-eye coordination to the point that most computer games aren't fun anymore, and our kids are horses and cats.

I was a huge Tempest player, back in the day. And, like Fancy, I still love pinball. There's just something about the fact that there's a real ball hitting real flippers. Call me an old fogey. That's OK.

:rolleyes:

Yo ho ho! Or does nobody actually say that?

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:rolleyes: over on my ren faire site, we're batting around an idea for developing a renfaire game. don't have anything yet, just in the brainstorm phase yet, but if it should come to anything, i'll let you know. B)

~snow :D

with faith, trust and pixiedust, everything is possible ;)

if it be tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

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While I don't miss Role Playing games, I sure liked to plan them out. I was the default Dungeon Master because I so enjoyed setting adventures up. I created a whole story arc for a group... I wrote up one of the adventures in publishable form - it was set in a castle overrun with gremlins and the undead (I even created the gremlin monster complete with line art, stats and behavior patterns).

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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I was the default Dungeon Master because I so enjoyed setting adventures up

I've spent more time writing a Traveler computer program (ok ... in BASIC) than I've played ....

Now I only have part of it.... lost most of it when my last pewter died..... dang .... it was a cool program..... generated the main star ( and secondary if present) and all the planets and thier satalites in a system..... I was then going to fix it so with "cut and Paste" it would write a web page of the system... so I could do "stellar cartography" in HTML format...... jump links and all......

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OH YAH.... I wrote a basic Program that creates pyrate characters for a game that I was writing...... (using an unregistered version of Liberty Basic.... gotta send them thier $39.00 one of these days....)

The Pyrate game, (what I have blocked out) is very simple, and fast.... I've set-up an "Aftermath" game.... (a character with a shotgun, turns and fires down a hallway.... half an hour later, I got very acurate results..... but that wasn't worth the effort.....)

I'm using the "handfull of D6" for results .... makes it more fun to play, and everyone has D6......

Basicly..... playability over reality..... quick results, and fast play......

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if we weren't on opposite coasts, i'd be over there in a heartbeat. way back when (in the old days before children) a bunch of used to play hazy crates with double deck of cards and teams. had a blast. snce uno made the scene, no one plays crazy eights anymore. used to play pinochle and canasta all the time too. sometimes i really miss those days.

and it will be a sad day when all the pinball machines vanish from arcades and other places. i have extreme pinball on playstation, but it just isn't the same. you need the hands on control on the real thing. :D

~snow :D

with faith, trust and pixiedust, everything is possible ;)

if it be tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

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emmf steel rose player - bella donna, 2005

improv cast member and dance instructor - fort tryon medieval festival

lady neige - midsummer renaissance faire

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My absolute favorite game is Uno. Anyone care to come to my place for a rollicking good game? :D

Uno is a fine game for campouts. (Of course, when I camped, we used to play AD&D...) I always liked Mille Bornes a little better than Uno, though. It has more strategy to it. And it has vehicles on the cards. :D

Risk is a great board game. I loved to play Risk when I was a kid.

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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my hubby and friends used to play risk on a regular basis, leaving games set up for as long as it took... but that was before kids (but still, they aren't that bad, mission)

I liked Pictionary, because I can draw adequately, and lately I've been liking hearts. even my kids can play that, well, not my 4yo, but she thinks she can... she can play dominos, tho :)

we all enjoy uno a lot too!

Fancy

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but that was before kids (but still, they aren't that bad, mission)

Now hold on a second...I don't think I ever said kids were bad (well, they're not always bad, only sometimes). [Er, this is from an email conversation, folks.] I believe said they're not what I want in my life.

Kids add elements C&D to your life... chaos and drama. Don't need 'em, don't want 'em.

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"I'm a quiet living man,

who prefers to spend the evening in the silence of his room,

who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,

A pensive man am I, of philosophical joys,

who likes to meditate, contemplate,

far for humanities mad inhuman noise,

A quiet living man..."

-the wise Professor Higgins

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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Duh!.... I remember.. i was teasing you. I do that, you know... hon :D If you thought they were really bad, I doubt you'd even let your namesake visit you. Spoil him, send him home with his C&D, right? That is one thing you're right about, kids do bring a certain amount of C&D to one's life, but also a lot of L.

You know, there are many things that can bring elements of C&D to one's life....

Fancy

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I can draw realy fast and well.....

hmm... really.... B)

I'm not that good... at drawing... B)

but I draw well enough that when we played in teams, I was always the chosen draw-er. B)

I think you'd be really fun to play Pictionary with.

Fancy

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My major was art all the way through school at seventeen my draft number came up 37 I changed my major to theology I wasn't drafted (thank God) not that I am not proud of every man and woman who served our country and fought in Viet Nam I hold their patriotism closest to my heart. I am just not a gun carrier and if I could have written the words to create a more peaceful time in our history I would have. I liked pictionary though! I like hangman when i'm sittin in airports too!

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a knife in your back.

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I think you'd be really fun to play Pictionary with.

Fancy... I'm fun to play all kinds of games with... :P (Bad Patrick...Bad... )

Sorry......

One time, I got typewritter (easy)... but the team I was on didn't let me finish the drawing.... rats... they guessed it to quickly......

Famine was kinda tricky..... drew a bunch of potbellied starving kids with empty plates, and farms from the "dust bowl" in the background..... the group got that one also.....

Like I typed..... they wont let me play anymore....... :lol:

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There are still folks out there playing? All my fellow AD&D campaigners married, moved away or became socialists. *Sigh* Now the big thing in this realm seems to be minitures gaming or card games. I don't much care for them.

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

Mission_banner5.JPG

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