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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2479835" data-attributes="member: 20741">There are two "cores" to our gaming circle. One core of the group formed in Moncton, New Brunswick  as part of the old Moncton Wargames Club.  It was a club held in some empty space in a mall for Squad Leader, SFB and D&D/AD&D1st ed. It ultimately became the foundry for every gaming group in the city from the late 70s and early to mid 1980s. We all knew one another back then as a result  - about 50 gamers in the City who formed and dissolved in various gaming circles dictated by age and other interests most often. Some of them formed core groups that hung together as people moved across the country.This touchstone back to a group of about 50 people is a very very odd thing, I've come to realize. No one else I have met seems to have had an experience growing up where - literally - everyone else who gamed in a city of 100k essentially all knew one another more or less regardless of age and have kept in contact with one another over the course of four decades now.Anyways - that's core #1. Formed in 1979.  26 years later - the three of us from that original group are still gaming together. One was an usher at my first wedding - the other a roommate after said marriage went south 8 years later. Core #2 formed at an RPG club at UofT in 1982. Three of them initally.Core #1 and #2 hooked up through a chance meeting at a SCA event. One of our core and one of their core - both cores feeling too small for a decent size group. 3+3 = 6 and off we went.And so the Canadian Association of Mad Scientists and Evil Geniuses (CAMSEG) was born in '91 - which is what we call our "merged" group now.A few more got added onto CAMSEG through someone met at work in the case of one, bumped into in a gaming store in the case of another and the most recent addition as a member of my NWN team in the case of a third.</blockquote>

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