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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7973030" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah. The only reason I'm aware of it is that, somehow even pre-internet, and even though he's two years younger than me, my brother had an incredible nose for really good or really interesting RPGs (same for music, the little bastard! At least I've got genre novels, sniff). I tended to go for the "obvious" ones (like Shadowrun, or RIFTS), but he'd find these amazing ones I'd never even heard of and wouldn't have looked at. I still remember the day in 1991, when he came home and tossed 1E Vampire on to my bed (he'd been out shopping in the West End with my parents), and I was like thinking "Well this looks stupid and for lame dorks" from the cover, and he's like "Read it, dude!" and I did, and was just jaw-to-the-floor astonished by how utterly cool it was (yes of course our campaigns were bit trenchcoats and katanas, we were teenagers! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ).</p><p></p><p>Then I think later that year or the next he came home with RC D&D, and again my instinct was "Why would I play this? It's like AD&D but for younger kids, right?", but the he told me about it, and I read, and even as a youngling, I could see that this was something special, something remarkable. Essentially all of the PHB/DMG/MM but in a single book, and so elegantly put together, and so flowing. We never got to run it much precisely because of other RPGs, but wow, we both loved it. I still have it in usable condition, I was looking at it not that long ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7973030, member: 18"] Yeah. The only reason I'm aware of it is that, somehow even pre-internet, and even though he's two years younger than me, my brother had an incredible nose for really good or really interesting RPGs (same for music, the little bastard! At least I've got genre novels, sniff). I tended to go for the "obvious" ones (like Shadowrun, or RIFTS), but he'd find these amazing ones I'd never even heard of and wouldn't have looked at. I still remember the day in 1991, when he came home and tossed 1E Vampire on to my bed (he'd been out shopping in the West End with my parents), and I was like thinking "Well this looks stupid and for lame dorks" from the cover, and he's like "Read it, dude!" and I did, and was just jaw-to-the-floor astonished by how utterly cool it was (yes of course our campaigns were bit trenchcoats and katanas, we were teenagers! :) ). Then I think later that year or the next he came home with RC D&D, and again my instinct was "Why would I play this? It's like AD&D but for younger kids, right?", but the he told me about it, and I read, and even as a youngling, I could see that this was something special, something remarkable. Essentially all of the PHB/DMG/MM but in a single book, and so elegantly put together, and so flowing. We never got to run it much precisely because of other RPGs, but wow, we both loved it. I still have it in usable condition, I was looking at it not that long ago. [/QUOTE]
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