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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mach1.9pants" data-source="post: 5332301" data-attributes="member: 55946">^Bravo to you, Sir!Yeah it was not huge in NZ, but much bigger than now. We played Basic set at lunch time, the DM owned the only copy. It was pretty eccentric (as seems the case throughout); for example the DM tried to insist that we had to roll to decide the sex of our PC. I put my foot down at that and said 'show me in the rule book'. We had a group that 1 PC from every class/race in the Basic Set, which was quite cool. I played a Magic User called (and modelled on) Raistlin Majere. I (to my shame) cheated on char creation to get an 18 INT which netted me exactly 0 benefit! I also had to roll my spells and had Read Magic (free) and Floating disk at level 1. Got Shield at level 2... You get the idea.Latter that group split and we played every hour we could in the 'Hostel'. I was a boarding kid (rural) and our boarding 'hostel' was attached to a normal state/public (as in available to the public, not UK public) school. Called College (which is 13-18 yrs, this stuff is very confusing explaining internationally LOL). Anyway I DM'd there for me and 2 plus upto 6 more players. BECMI>ADnD>2E. In the Hostel, of my year everyone played at least for a small period of time, even the cool skilful Rugby players!So although still thought of as geeky, it was more accepted than now.. I have cousins etc going through the same school, there is no RPG at all any more. In fact I don't know of any RPGing at all in our region, apart from ourselves <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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