Let's do the time warp again.... I would like to propose a ..TOAST! to all the lovely ladies on the board, where were you when i started with the world of greyhawk back in '76? Got into chess club as a frosh, and started accumulating all the paraphenalia *(no, that kind of paraphenalia did not happen til college and the rocky horror pictureshow)* had a bunch of friends, we all ran dungeons of our own, had the dominoes and lead figurines so you could not slick the DM by saying you were going to backstab the zombie when your character was actually in the back of the pack and still had to work his way forward. I still have my AD&D player handbook, monster manual, DM guide, characters on paper that i started over 20 years ago, all the die, the killer-literally- dungeon i made up- on graph paper and everything! after i got out of high school and started college, drinking and seeking the close company of the opposite sex replaced D&D as my favorite activities, and the old bunch all went our separate ways. I just bought bg2 in january, and have gotten hooked all over again- and, I'll have you know i have actually pulled out some of my old books to figure out some of the monsters, spells, weapon damages and the like, 'cause i started with a {looks around furtively and puts finger to lips ssshhhh} a burned copy of the game, so i did not have the manual or anything else. i finally repented and did go buy the thing, but i still use my monster manual- I forgot that darn +3 or better and magical resistance on the iron golem in nalia's keep, but electical attacks slows them. I truly enjoy the game, but because it seems that others who play are few and far between, the interpersonal interactions is the component that i really miss the most, and the computer is a poor substitute. I guess that is why i find myself on this board as much as I play the game, if only there were a way to combine them, I would be in hog heaven!
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