Hello fellow GRONARDS!

[Wombat]

Grognards are pre-RPG wargamers

Heh, that'd be me, too

I played Gettysburg when it used squares instead of hexes and mourned the passing of Jack Scruby...

 

[Storminator]

So, how many other actual Grognards like myself and Aramax are there round these parts who have tried 4E? Do you still also play wargames or is that a distant memory? Do you play 4E exclusively or other games as well?

I started out in wargames long before I played RPGs. I only pushed cardboard chits around tho.

4E is my D&D of choice. I started with 1e, missed 2e, and considered 3e such an improvement I would never go back. Now I consider 4e such an improvement I'll never go back to 3e.

I'm hoping to get back into some of Reaper's Warlord now that it's got a second edition. We'll see if I can find the time...

PS

 

[Squizzle]

Grognards are pre-RPG wargamers

This popular fallacy (which applies much more widely than gaming) is as inaccurate as it is pervasive.

 

[Mark]

This popular fallacy (which applies much more widely than gaming) is as inaccurate as it is pervasive.

In this case, it is gospel. Don't worry; You can start your own traditions and defend them when the time comes.

 

[kitsune9]

HI BOB!

Well, I can't say I'm in the same boat with ya, but happy to meet you all the same!

 

[rexartur]

I've been playing since the pamphlets and have played every version.
I've been DM'ing since 3rd edition and have DM'd every edition back-tracking to Basic D&D.
I also run Hackmaster (4 and 5e), and have run WFRPG
I am hoping to eventually get around to Aces & Eights, Mutants and Masterminds and King Arthur Pendragon.
I switched my group to D&D 4E for a year and we are now swicthing to Pathfinder. I still run 4e for my wife, but mostly as a tactical mini's game.
We play all variety of boardgames (not really the Euro stuff tho, except for Goldbrau - cause it's about brewing beer!) including Advanced Squad Leader, 1776, and too many to llist here (although I do have them all ist at geekdo.com)
We play miniatures games (Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, Legends of the Old West, etc.)
So, to sum up, our interest in games far exceeds the time we have to play them.
Oh, and I'm 43 and my wife is 28 and...wait for it...she plays all of these games with me. That's right fellers, life is real good! (She's durn pretty, to boot - the only down side is she consistently beats me at whatever we're playing. I'll live with that!)

 

[Tallifer]

Salutes the rest of the Old Guard.

I too began with wargames. Miniatures and miniatures based boardgames. Unfortunately I suck at strategy and tactics <laughs> But my favourites were some of the later generation wargames like SPQR and Empires in Arms.

As for Dungeons and Dragons, I too went directly from first edition to fourth edition. I much prefered less mechanically-complicated games like Runequest and Call fo Cthulhu, and so I love the transparent mechanics of the fourth editionof Dungeons and Dragons. (On the other hand I loved the baroque contortions of Powers and Perils, but it was clearly unworkable.)

 

[ExploderWizard]

This popular fallacy (which applies much more widely than gaming) is as inaccurate as it is pervasive.

Grognard is French for "grumbler" It is not necessarily pejorative and is sometimes used as a compliment. Historically it meant a soldier in Napoleon's army, particularly a member of the Old Guard It subsequently became an internet pop culture meme.

According to Alan Emrich , "grognard" came to mean a veteran wargamer in the early 1970s. It was first used by John Young, at that time an employee of SPI, and subsequently popularised by Strategy & Tactics magazine.
From wargaming, the term moved to role-playing games where it was used to mean someone who preferred older-than-current editions of a game (for example, a person who stayed with first edition Dungeons & Dragons even after the second or third editions were released). It has subsequently broadened even further in meaning, and now some experienced wikipedia editors display a grognard tag to show they have been a member for a long period and made a substantial number of edits.

The intarwebz speaks da TROOF.

 

[darjr]

The intarwebz speaks da TROOF.

And warps and twists and redefines definitions even as they are being written, even by those very authors.

I love the internet.

 

[diaglo]

"i was not a member of napolean's Old Guard.
but i did play with him. "

diaglo "a wargamer" Ooi