Which ENWorlder Would You Want to Meet?

Well, I got to hang out with Grodog ALL day today. What a blast! Very cool cat. We met up with Col Hardisson, enjoyed a delightful dinner, and then retired to my parlor where we geeked out ... A LOT. Grodog regaled us with gaming lore as only he can. It was educational.

(edit: Piratecat resized and uploaded my pics for me in the following post. That hosting site is really cumbersome. Need to find a better hosting site for hi-res images.)

Check this out ... Allan showed us something really impressive. Notice the maps on the table? These are a bunch of Rob Kuntz's levels from the original Castle Greyhawk campaign from the 70's! Grodog and Pied Piper are working to publish some of these rare beauties in their modules. Cool, huh? We were too facinated by the pretty dice to notice something as munane as CG maps. Hey, they look just like candy!

Man, what a good time. These gentlemen are bursting with class, in opposition to me ... I'm more of a showoff and a gossip.

Too cool! Man, Col. Hardisson looks nothing like I pictured him. It's funny how you have a mental image of people from the boards that has no bearing whatsoever on reality.

You guys look like you're having fun. I wish I could have been there.

I took the liberty of resizing and uploading your pictures because your hosting site is frustrating. Hope that's okay!

A couple of years back I was in Anaheim, and Hardisson came up for dinner at the hotel my family and I were staying at.

The guy is super-cool

Piratecat said:

Too cool! Man, Col. Hardisson looks nothing like I pictured him. It's funny how you have a mental image of people from the boards that has no bearing whatsoever on reality.

You guys look like you're having fun. I wish I could have been there.

I took the liberty of resizing and uploading your pictures because your hosting site is frustrating. Hope that's okay!

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Thanks, Piratecat!

Piratecat said:

I took the liberty of resizing and uploading your pictures because your hosting site is frustrating. Hope that's okay!

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Thanks for that, Pcat!

Piratecat said:

Too cool! Man, Col. Hardisson looks nothing like I pictured him. It's funny how you have a mental image of people from the boards that has no bearing whatsoever on reality.

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I know what you mean. I recall you said you found grodog to be younger than you expected, and I found that to be true also. The guy is about 4 years younger than me, and here I was expecting someone maybe a decade older! Anyway, yeah, I'm a mountain of a man, and I was sleep-deprived, and I was under a time crunch, so I felt and looked a bit frazzled.

Speaking of grodog, I have to admit to being mesmerized by the guy's insight and knowledge of gaming history. I could've questioned him and listened to him all night. I'd love to be in a campaign where he was running Greyhawk. Plus, as dragonlordofpoondari pointed out above, grodog had some utterly fascinating color copies of Rob Kuntz mapos for Castle Greyhawk (and the El Raja Key castle that is whispered of in legend) he was kind enough to let us paw over. Those maps - and keys! - resemble the kind of thing I was doing in the late 70s, but are much more meticulous and beautiful, particularly some of the Greyhawk City sewers. Holy cow but those would be nice to have! Anyway, grodog is top-notch, a really cool guy. I'm glad I got a chance to meet him.

dragonlordofpoondari is also a truly cool guy. Laid back and knowledgeable about gaming, plus a damned gracious host. Turns out he used to haunt some of my old stomping grounds back in Ohio! Very cool to run across somebody who knows places like the Midway Mall in Elyria, Ohio, where I got a lot of my early gaming stuff, or Oberlin College. Plus we also met him better half, Micki (or is it Mickey? Correct me if I'm wrong on that), and she was very kind and also gracious. Great folk.

Piratecat said:

You guys look like you're having fun. I wish I could have been there.

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It was neat.

Teflon Billy said:

A couple of years back I was in Anaheim, and Hardisson came up for dinner at the hotel my family and I were staying at.

The guy is super-cool

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Hey thanks! The same applies to you. A very cool meeting that I look back on fondly.

I'm always up to meeting up for a beer with any EN Worlder who comes to New York City.

ColonelHardisson said:

dragonlordofpoondari is also a truly cool guy. Laid back and knowledgeable about gaming, plus a damned gracious host ... we also met him better half, Micki (or is it Mickey? Correct me if I'm wrong on that), and she was very kind and also gracious. Great folk.

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Miky is how she spells it (short for Maricella), but she pronounces it MEE-key. Thanks for the kind words. It was a pleasure to have you, Colonel. You're always welcome in our house. Since it turns out that we're next door neighbors, we should endeavor to hang out from time to time. We'll definitely will have to do the Game Empire - Pho thing sometime soon. And hopefully you'll be playing in my Ptolus campaign when your schedule lightens up!

I've had the opportunity to meet many, many ENWorlders over the years and they have been, nearly without exception, excellent people. It's why I'm now a GenCon addict.

I'll see a bunch of you in a few months!

I'm particularly looking forward to meeting Hobo so we can spoon because he's one of those people I just know I'll get along great with.

WTF!!!!! no one wants to meet me?!?!?!?!?!

I guess that's what I get for lurking more than posting. Heck there are a few enworlders in my town (it's a small town) and I havn't met them.