From: cmcarthu@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Christopher Gary McArthur)
Subject: Re: Who do you game with?
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 06:59:28 GMT


	Well I started reading some responses, and I thought what the hell, I
will put in two cents worth.


	I started playing in grade 5 when a friend bought the basic rules for
DnD.  We were all very excited, and about six/seven of us started to roll up
characters.  It was rather amusing, as for those who know, we drew different
polygons for each attribute on a piece of scrap paper.  I recall took a Cleric
but don't recall ever playing him.

	Well we went from strength to strength and soon started playing all
manner of games any time we could.  We played James Bond 007, Starleader AssaultMarvel Superheroes.  We got into board games as well such as Ogre and Car Wars.
Everyting was all wonderful, our Dnd characters were running around amassing 
armies and killing dragons with +99 swords.

	My most memorable characters were a family of three.  There was
Goldenglade a immortal fighter who renounced his immortality and was killed by
dragon fire on a saving throw of one.  There was his brother Silverglade, 
another fighter about 20th level who owned a castle, and their sister Ladyglade
who was a Cleric of about 10th level.

	Grade six came around and one of our players went to another school.
Things went on a backburner for awhile until I teamed up with some friends in
grade seven (High School) to start playing DnD again.  This went quite well
until grade eight when our Schoolmaster decided DnD corrupted the mind and
banned it from the school.  Since that day I had not played until this year
when I started going to Uni.

	After such a long break (about 4 and a half years) I was happy to start
up again.  Why didn't I play after school and on weekends?  Well I lived out of
town and my parents weren't about to drive me into town everytime I wanted to
play.

	So when I got to Uni we started playing Rifts, and Call of Culthlu.
Rifts I enjoyed immensely, I played a Glitter Boy, and I loved firing that
BOOMSKI gun.  We also played Dark Sun for one session, and then two of the groupof four moved interstate.  I found another player from Uni and we started
playing two games of ADnD and one of Rifts.

	I then lost the Rifts book and I then really couldn't afford to buy a
new one, so that campaign hit the dust.  We got two new players from the Uni
and we started playing two sessions of ADnD a week.  I DMed one game which
unfortunately hit the dust as well when the party were wiped out, first by
a level 10 mage and then twenty very nasty Duergar.  The party unfortunately
mentioned that they had killed the mage.

	The other DM decided that it wasn't going on in that campaign either
so we have now started playing Heroes Unlimited which he GMs.

	So the players at present;

Chris - That's me!  Not terribly experienced, but have DMed and played a variety	of games.  Currently 18 and a Uni student.

Troy  - Friend of mine from way back to High School.  Had a lot of Experience
	DMing various systems, and a lot of playing hours as well.  He is 
	leaving to join the army so he won't be playing with us next year.  At
	the moment he is a student at Colledge.

Craig - Another Uni student!  Likes Manga a lot and he GMs a game of Mekton for
	some other players.  Particulary likes the role-playing part of RPGs.
	He likes to think he is a mature game player.

Shaun - Risk-taker and life breaker.  The Gung - ho player who kills most things	on sight.  Seems to have a lot of experience playing different games.
	Currently at Uni as well.

Doug  - The Older member of our group.  Aged 20 going on 21 he puts in the calm
	approach for our sessions, which is handy otherwise our characters would	probably be dead within an hour of playing.

So thats it.  Fascinating stuff huh?

Chris McArthur
University of Tasmania, Launceston
"The opinions expressed in this document are my own and not those of any companyof corporation that I know of at this time"


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