Thresher
First Post
My origional gaming group of friends was a group of flatmates, me, 3 guys and 2 girls, many years ago and we've since gone our seperate ways a long time ago. Back with 1E Shadowrun and some 1E-2E D&D.
We sort of played together on and off for about 6 years, I shanghai'd in a few others along the way, like 3 girls and 3 guys I knew from high school and ended up in the same town at uni. Then there was my best friend at uni who had a boyfriend and I used to steal him off her on the weekends along with another 2 guys I shared a house with, that bloke ran some of the best Shadowrun games ever, an utter genius.
That went on for about 4-5 years and finding or running a game was easier than falling down drunk
Then most of us parted ways after uni finished and I found a Darksun campain pickup game at a FLGS, in between wargaming and painting mini's, of which painting mini's for other people seemed to contribute about 40% of my earnings back in the day. That lasted a year or so and I cant really say I found it easy to like all of them but my unemployed self needed something to fill in time.
After the Darksun game finished up I found another guy in a hobby store who played Warhammer with gameradar and turned up there at his joint with a few boxes of my own armies and found out they played D&D and a whole heap of other RPG's I'd never heard of.
So in between getting my arse kicked by the guy I met in the game store (he cheated and while I had prettier mini's I wasnt much of a tactitian either!) and lo and behold some of the old Darksun people where there, who also cheated in Warhammer a lot but a game was a game... we started playing RPG's again. All sorts of them and the warhammer cheats evn managed to cheat in RPG's but they where easier to squish at least.
Out of that core group 10-12 years later, theres 4 of us who, older, crustier and crankier still play as regually as we can, I'd consider them best of friends. So I spend my weekends driving a 350km round trip to see them as often as I can.
I dunno if anyone else would have me really
We sort of played together on and off for about 6 years, I shanghai'd in a few others along the way, like 3 girls and 3 guys I knew from high school and ended up in the same town at uni. Then there was my best friend at uni who had a boyfriend and I used to steal him off her on the weekends along with another 2 guys I shared a house with, that bloke ran some of the best Shadowrun games ever, an utter genius.
That went on for about 4-5 years and finding or running a game was easier than falling down drunk
Then most of us parted ways after uni finished and I found a Darksun campain pickup game at a FLGS, in between wargaming and painting mini's, of which painting mini's for other people seemed to contribute about 40% of my earnings back in the day. That lasted a year or so and I cant really say I found it easy to like all of them but my unemployed self needed something to fill in time.
After the Darksun game finished up I found another guy in a hobby store who played Warhammer with gameradar and turned up there at his joint with a few boxes of my own armies and found out they played D&D and a whole heap of other RPG's I'd never heard of.
So in between getting my arse kicked by the guy I met in the game store (he cheated and while I had prettier mini's I wasnt much of a tactitian either!) and lo and behold some of the old Darksun people where there, who also cheated in Warhammer a lot but a game was a game... we started playing RPG's again. All sorts of them and the warhammer cheats evn managed to cheat in RPG's but they where easier to squish at least.
Out of that core group 10-12 years later, theres 4 of us who, older, crustier and crankier still play as regually as we can, I'd consider them best of friends. So I spend my weekends driving a 350km round trip to see them as often as I can.
I dunno if anyone else would have me really
