(TFT) Re: TFT Digest V3 #334 (fwd)

[Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>]

>>>>> Forwarded message from Nils K Hammer <nh0g@andrew.cmu.edu>

Ah, first FRP experience, that was 1976 Defense Language Institute
Monterey California.
"you are attacked by 6 orcs, blah blah blah"
   Uhhh, what's an Orc?
"oh, just kill it".

It was something of a D&D death dungeon, where not many survived.
Being born a cheapskate, and short of gold, I said I would sell
the equipment from dead Orcs, and they laughed, but _I_ paid _10_
gold for my sword, so it ought to worth at least One!. Even with
the flaws, the GM wasn't nearly a bad guy like some I met later were.
He just had a hard scale for survivability. I learned stuff about
game stats I used later. When I first GMed in 1979 I set an informal
death-rate of 1 PC per 10 adventurer-sorties, and thought I was
being gracious! Ha!

Sorry I forget when I got Mel-Wiz, and I don't know why it was
hard to get others to join, some sort of cultural inertia, but
I remember sitting and marveling over it's purity. This inspired
me to make new rules, weapons, and hand-draw many counters.

Nils K. Hammer




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