Synnibarr vs WotC

[darjr]

Ignorance is bliss?

 

[Parmandur]

Ignorance is bliss?

War is peace, submission is strength?

 

[Mannahnin]

Yeah, I played Synnibarr with Raven as well, as a teenager. Met him at DragonFlight convention at UW in probably '91 by randomly signing up for a session he was running...

Super not the point, but it was Seattle University, the Jesuit-run school. Until... 2004, I think, when it moved to Bellevue because S-U decided we weren't the right sort of people.

Thanks for the correction! I went and looked at the history of Dragonflight a little and I see that in 1990 they also linked up with the Simulation Gaming Association at UW to form the Metro Seattle Gamers club. Maybe my misremembered UW reference was connected with that.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I think it was... '83? I was at Dragonflight, at Seattle University, I was pretty young, 14 - 16, I think. I was looking at the dealer tables, when a pretty aggressive fellow asked me I wanted to take look at "The game that's gonna replace D&D."

Even then I was old (jaded? Cynical?) enough to find that line problematic. But I looked. The book was a red cover, and comb-bound. Synnibarr.

I wouldn't say cynical necessarily... Anytime I hear someone without any industry cred tell me that "they've fixed D&D/their game is better than D&D" that's a red flag for me.

 

[Autumnal]

Yup. They may have, but the odds are against it.

 

[aramis erak]

War is peace, submission is strength?

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
Oh, and Soylent Green is long pork...

I have a secondhand copy of synnibar... of all the small press games I've got... it is one for which the cover is far more memorable than the contents.

Unlike Jorune. Or The Atlantean Trilogy. Or Star Riders, Star Thugs, or or Dark Realms.

 

[Longspeak]

Thanks for the correction! I went and looked at the history of Dragonflight a little and I see that in 1990 they also linked up with the Simulation Gaming Association at UW to form the Metro Seattle Gamers club. Maybe my misremembered UW reference was connected with that.

Oh, yeah. There was some serious involvement with U-W gamers, and before MSG, I think Dragonflight had game days on the UW campus... But I was just a kid for most of that. I didn't get super involved in the convention until... '96. When I was almost 30... so... super old.

 

[Blue Orange]

War is peace, submission is strength?

For the last one you're thinking of 'Freedom is Slavery'.

Though you could be mixing it up with Kushiel's Dart: That which yields is not always weak.

 

[Parmandur]

For the last one you're thinking of 'Freedom is Slavery'.

Though you could be mixing it up with Kushiel's Dart: That which yields is not always weak.

Scrambled brains.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Scrambled brains.

So good with hot sauce and a cheese that melts well.