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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 1591109" data-attributes="member: 3208">my 2 centsthe reason i know EGG's name and had not even heard of garfield until this verry thread despite having spent a few years as a booster pack addict is this in my opinion.i played magic for 3 or 4 years and i have no clear recolection of any one game i played, nothing really amazing happened to form a lasting connection for me in the game. i remember the guys i played with, the food i ate while playing ect... but the game itself, whikle i could probably pick it up and play needing only clarification on some new abilities and terms, meant little to me. it is a quick short term game with little time investment needed and thus the games themselves are forgetable. like most games.my first dnd character regrettably was a drow elf thief named Drazen who wielded two long swords (i'm sorry) who became the royal assassin for the character in the party who was a regent in the birthright campaign setting. which of course did not even have drow but i was a jock so cut me some slack, i lacked the pedigree to create a good first character. one year later my second character was an undead killing paladin named remmy in dragonlance. killing lord soth had a level of satisfaction i will never forget, i had 3 hp left and the rest of the party was dead. the next year i created Nach Dun, "great head" in klingon for the trekkies out there, a minotaur with the barbarian kit from the fighter's handbook. i still remember the charge attack, followed up with a deadly series of attacks with a club that killed the gnoll leader in a generic border town and a fleeing minion getting hit in the back with said club as he fled and blood dripped down the minotaur's face from his innitial attack. if i sat down for a few hours i can probably name you every character i have done since with a few exceptions for one shots, ill advised combinations that were quickly aborted and very shortlived campaigns. in short for good or ill, dnd and rpg's in general fire the imagination to the point that they stick in the mind as though crazy glued in. while i dislike almost everything EGG has done professionally, if i were to meet the man, my only action would be to thank him for the thousands of hours i have spent playing the game that he was largely responsible for the original version of and wish him well in his endeavors. if i met garfield i'd probably throw out "like the cat?" and keep walking. someone else might have come up with something to fill the niche that dnd did but the bottom line is, he did it. our society rewards accomplishment, not potential. he did it. he's the man! thanks EGG.</blockquote>

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