A Land Far Away

A buddy of mine just sent me this. Me (bottom left) with my older brothers at the tabletop in 1979.



Beat that!

what a bunch of...................................... awesome dudes...

how about this one from good ol' 1987:



Where's Galadorn???

dergon darkhelm wrote:A buddy of mine just sent me this. Me (bottom left) with my older brothers at the tabletop in 1979.



Beat that!

my favorite part is the plywood haha

Great pics!

1979? You're like old enough to be my great great grandfather.

Luv it..still have all of tose books I started a bit before that but not much and alas have no pictures to share

geeks....

i had a mohawk back then and was beating up kids like you....

dirsa wrote:geeks....
i had a mohawk back then and was beating up kids like you....

naaah ya got it all wrong... we were the "non-geeks" who played D&D.

The guys who did real well in school, but still pipped off Fridays, got chicks, partied on the weekends, drank and smoked alot.
...my crew and I were the jocks and cool kids who liked to beat the be-jesus out of those skinny asshole mohawks and punks who picked on the weeklings and geeks cause thass'all they could.



hehe

Dont have pics but i started out in 82, funny thing is that my cousin that got me interested in it also got bringer hooked too. lol girl number three and her friend want to play so we spent some time(bringer and fellow player and father of the other girl) digging out or dnd stuff this weekend.

Galadorn wrote:

dirsa wrote:geeks....
i had a mohawk back then and was beating up kids like you....

naaah ya got it all wrong... we were the "non-geeks" who played D&D.

The guys who did real well in school, but still pipped off Fridays, got chicks, partied on the weekends, drank and smoked alot.
...my crew and I were the jocks and cool kids who liked to beat the be-jesus out of those skinny a**hole mohawks and punks who picked on the weeklings and geeks cause thass'all they could.



hehe

Also, they were gay. See the make-out attempt going on in that pic?

I sure do. Man smooching.

Weird. It was usually all the jocks and "cool kids" that picked on all the mohawks/geeks/outsiders/punks/etc...

At least where I came from.

~Killy~

Killthorne wrote:Weird. It was usually all the jocks and "cool kids" that picked on all the mohawks/geeks/outsiders/punks/etc..

Yes, there were those fellas too, but we were not them.

JaydeMoon wrote:Also, they were gay.

If it got cold enough sure why not.

I didn't start playing until the early 80s. And I don't have any photos.

Killthorne wrote:Weird. It was usually all the jocks and "cool kids" that picked on all the mohawks/geeks/outsiders/punks/etc...

At least where I came from.

The jocks and cool kids at my school were all pretty cool. It was the losers and geeks that tended to bully me.

NickD wrote:The jocks and cool kids at my school were all pretty cool. It was the losers and geeks that tended to bully me.

Seems it's not only the seasons that are reversed in NZ!

Logically speaking, the losers and geeks tend to be the ones with lower self esteem, so would find it more rewarding to take out their frustrations at having a lack of self worth on outsiders like myself who didn't really fit into any of the social groups and was generally non-threatening.