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strangest way you've acquired a game.

Started by Schwartzwald, October 18, 2017, 01:22:55 PM

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Schwartzwald

#30
October 26, 2017, 12:29:39 PM
Quote from: Spike;1003716Hmm...

I found the Starships book (book 2?) of the original LBB Traveller, sitting on a table in what was basically an airport waiting room (but not, you know, actually IN the airport... keep reading and it might make sense...) in Afghanistan.

I'm pretty sure someone just randomly donated it as random reading material with no idea what it was... perhaps the other LBBs were included but didn't make it to this particular location?

I, of course, adopted it immediately. Poor thing was half starved and shivering.

You're all heart.

remial

#31
October 30, 2017, 05:16:49 AM
unlikely, very few people know my mailing address.  Hell even if you google me you can't find me.

LouGoncey

#32
November 13, 2017, 02:29:14 PM
A friend decided to run some Rules Cyclopedia DandD for us. He only ran it for us once. Later that week we met up at the FLGS and he just gave me his copy of the game...

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#33
November 15, 2017, 02:19:14 AM
The only other thing that comes even close to a 'strange' acquisition for me was one day finding the old (pre-mentzer) expert set, and it had a number of additional D&D modules inside it, at a "value village" (sort of like goodwill) for about $4.
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#34
November 20, 2017, 06:44:47 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1007912The only other thing that comes even close to a 'strange' acquisition for me was one day finding the old (pre-mentzer) expert set, and it had a number of additional D&D modules inside it, at a "value village" (sort of like goodwill) for about $4.

That reminds me of something odd. I have had the original Greyhawk boxed set for decades. At some point the books inside multiplied. As in, I have two of everything and I have no idea how.
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#35
November 20, 2017, 10:55:37 PM
* I'd been a writer for Gamelords (and as such, had a hand in on the final published TFT products), and a few of us lived in the Boston area.  While Gamelords was moribund by 1985, Rich Meyer got a courtesy playtest copy of GURPS from SJG.  Far more interested in APBA baseball and board games than in GMing at that point, and knowing that I was GMing TFT, he figured I'd get more use out of them and handed the cream and green spiral-bound notebooks off to me. So hot diggity, there I was, an uninvited playtester, got my name in the book, and went on from there to write stuff for GURPS. :)

* I was helping to run the gaming tracks (as well as moderate panels) for Worldcon in 1989.  Shadowrun had just come out, and FASA sent a couple comp copies to the concom member in charge.   No one else was interested, and while I wasn't interested in cyberpunk myself, I was fascinated by its production values, which at the time were by far the best the industry had ever seen.  I never did run the game, but I got a few bucks for the book from Noble Knight a few years back.
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