My mum played in high school (1976) and in college where she got her boyfriend (later my dad) into it. Eventually they got caught up in jobs and grad school and three small children that they stopped playing. But as kids, there were always funny-shaped dice in the house.
In high school, my friends got me into 3.5, which got my parents all nostalgic and they brought out her old photocopied rulebook and lead minatures. In terms of "dice mojo" (Greg London @89), I use my mother's orange d20 as my primary die. I consider it the real-life equivilent of weilding an ancestral sword.
Now that my friends and I are in college, we only meet every couple months. Just last year after our youngest member's high school graduation, we ended our first campaign. It was six years of effort and didn't end in TPK. It was a great sense of accomplishment.
We owe a lot to Gary Gygax and he will be missed.
Did anyone else have the Gygax-designed board game called DUNGEON which came out sometime between 1987-1993? Oh how many times my brothers and I rolled snake eyes and were killed by the Dracolich!
Just a passing mention that the first episode of Pushing Daisies, "Pie-lette," was surprisingly dark yet candy-colored SF and probably the most unique use of the genre on network tv since Firefly.
Better that than undead fangirls! Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead.
Will @ 565, it really is fybj. Orpnhfr perngvat n obafnv gerr= n "fybj fphyghcgher," nf vf punatvat barfrys. Naq vg gnxrf cynpr va fhzzre, VVEP.
557: Correct, but with "fybj" not "fabj"!
Vassilissa @ 551: No, that's not it. Perhaps I should have noted this is a short story.
Elusive oncologist with super cancer cure and female patient learn how to "grow."
Albatross @ 383, yes, you got it.
Accidentally time-travelling single mother learns how to put her modern life together after a year in the Roman Empire. Survives a plague, invents apple pie. . . inspires "Life on Mars"?
Teenage ophan becomes accomplice to mysteriously charismatic terrorist in dystopian Britain. Is it love or Stockholm syndrome?
#283: Puevfgbcure Vfurejbbq'f "V Nz N Pnzren"? Or is it "Qunytera"?
Congratulations, Doctrows! I think they're excellent names; but then again, my middle name IS Romana.
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts didn't get some of my regional varients either. With regards to the title tune, the last line was always "that's what boys/girls are made of!!" not "and I forgot my spoon."
Andrhia, I may be only 20 but these have shaped my life so far:
1. Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
2. "Slow Sculpture" (Theodore Sturgeon)
3. Lest Darkness Fall (L. Sprauge de Camp)
4. Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey)
5. A Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot (Tennessee Williams)
6. The Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)
7. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
and one of the most original and complex YA fantasy novels,
8. The Spellcoats (Diana Wynne Jones)
also, for a really fun read chock-full of wit and puns,
9. The Case of the Toxic Spelldump (Harry Turtledove)
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