Reminder to all women out there--get your prostates checked. Prostate cancer is no joke.
Burger "Becky" earned the nickname "Burger" because he bought a whole bunch of cheap burgers, kept them in his desk drawer, and would eat them over the course of several days.
Having said that, Heineman WAS a rockstar programmer. He was a very talented assembly programmer in an era when that mattered and was not easy. He wrote and programmed Bard's Tale III. He was a founder of interplay. Just because he was mentally ill does not mean that these truths are now false.
Sadly, he was at ground zero for gay autistic males pretending to be women. He lived with another gay man, "Jennell Jaquays," who also died recently and who was very involved in early tabletop.
Side note, I remember you had posted on D&D before, and I looked back and saw the comment I remembered (D&D being a lifestyle, critical role, etc.)
Couldn't agree more.
I played some some AD&D/D&D in middle and highschool. I was always more of a video gamer, but my friend group had some really devoted roleplayers. Our group was a bunch of nerdy guys, and 1-2 nerdy girls, who read the manuals, read the novels, loved the rules, and loved geeking out about arcane knowledge of the systems and world.
My middle school kid today joined a D&D club after school. There are maybe 35-40 kids in the club, aged between 7th grade and 12 grade. I watched them play one day.
None of them know the rules. They make SOME appearance of rolling dice, etc., but it's basically all just free style ruleless roleplaying. None of the DMs had maps (our DMs always had elaborate maps on graph paper, floorplans of towers, etc.) or plans, they just winged it.
One time a kid was rolling a D20 to see if he could make an arrow show. He rolled a 7 and the DM said that was such a bad failure that the arrow ricocheted 3 times and it hit the archer in the eye. Nobody batted an eye. A few minutes later someone else tried, rolled an 11 and got a bullseye. The kids just accepted all this as part of the way D&D works.
It's interesting how much the hobby has changed...
It's depressing. My kids' HS has a D&D club too. Neither of my kids are involved right now due to schedules, but I did manage to reach out to Black Blade and they donated THIRTY FIVE POUNDS of OSRIC books, as well as a box full of Castles & Crusades books from Troll Lord. This in addition to the 50 or so books I donated from my personal collection. WotC donated a grand total of one starter box, 6 months after the request was made.
I'm trying. I'd like to spend a little of my time running a high quality classic style game for them, but right now I absolutely can't fit it in. Hopefully the kids are intrigued by the older materials and rebel against Modern D&D. Right now it seems like their biggest problem is getting kids to run games, since it can be overwhelming for a first timer, especially for kids that have bad expectations set by things like CR.
Reminder to all women out there--get your prostates checked. Prostate cancer is no joke.
Burger "Becky" earned the nickname "Burger" because he bought a whole bunch of cheap burgers, kept them in his desk drawer, and would eat them over the course of several days.
Having said that, Heineman WAS a rockstar programmer. He was a very talented assembly programmer in an era when that mattered and was not easy. He wrote and programmed Bard's Tale III. He was a founder of interplay. Just because he was mentally ill does not mean that these truths are now false.
Sadly, he was at ground zero for gay autistic males pretending to be women. He lived with another gay man, "Jennell Jaquays," who also died recently and who was very involved in early tabletop.
RIP Burger.
Jaquays was an absolute Tabletop legend.
Side note, I remember you had posted on D&D before, and I looked back and saw the comment I remembered (D&D being a lifestyle, critical role, etc.)
Couldn't agree more.
I played some some AD&D/D&D in middle and highschool. I was always more of a video gamer, but my friend group had some really devoted roleplayers. Our group was a bunch of nerdy guys, and 1-2 nerdy girls, who read the manuals, read the novels, loved the rules, and loved geeking out about arcane knowledge of the systems and world.
My middle school kid today joined a D&D club after school. There are maybe 35-40 kids in the club, aged between 7th grade and 12 grade. I watched them play one day.
None of them know the rules. They make SOME appearance of rolling dice, etc., but it's basically all just free style ruleless roleplaying. None of the DMs had maps (our DMs always had elaborate maps on graph paper, floorplans of towers, etc.) or plans, they just winged it.
One time a kid was rolling a D20 to see if he could make an arrow show. He rolled a 7 and the DM said that was such a bad failure that the arrow ricocheted 3 times and it hit the archer in the eye. Nobody batted an eye. A few minutes later someone else tried, rolled an 11 and got a bullseye. The kids just accepted all this as part of the way D&D works.
It's interesting how much the hobby has changed...
No kidding - I used to get beaten up for doing things like playing D&D and watching Star Trek.
It's depressing. My kids' HS has a D&D club too. Neither of my kids are involved right now due to schedules, but I did manage to reach out to Black Blade and they donated THIRTY FIVE POUNDS of OSRIC books, as well as a box full of Castles & Crusades books from Troll Lord. This in addition to the 50 or so books I donated from my personal collection. WotC donated a grand total of one starter box, 6 months after the request was made.
I'm trying. I'd like to spend a little of my time running a high quality classic style game for them, but right now I absolutely can't fit it in. Hopefully the kids are intrigued by the older materials and rebel against Modern D&D. Right now it seems like their biggest problem is getting kids to run games, since it can be overwhelming for a first timer, especially for kids that have bad expectations set by things like CR.
Itll be funny if women are forced to do prostate exams to make trannies not feel different because they gotta check on it.