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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Longspeak" data-source="post: 8993968" data-attributes="member: 7019284">My Synnibar story (Though I am not sure it was a Raven story.) My memory of the times may be off, as it all blurs together, but I recall this being pretty early on.I think it was... '83? I was at Dragonflight, at Seattle University, I was pretty young, 14 - 16, I think. I was looking at the dealer tables, when a pretty aggressive fellow asked me I wanted to take look at "The game that's gonna replace D&D."Even then I was old (jaded? Cynical?) enough to find that line problematic. But I looked. The book was a red cover, and comb-bound. Synnibarr.The fellow went on to tell me about the various amazing things I could do and be in this game. He had pretty inconsistent examples and mostly confused me and made me think he was talking about two different games at the same time.After a bit I said I didn't think it was for me, and that I was pretty sure nothing was going to replace D&D, and turns to go. I may have said it less politely that that, as I was a punk back then.The last thing I remember was his parting shot. "That's alright. A lot of people aren't smart enough for Synnibarr."Super not the point, but it was Seattle University, the Jesuit-run school. Until... 2004, I think, when it moved to Bellevue because S-U decided we weren't the right sort of people.OMG! You must be super old! Like me! LOVED Autoduel on my Atari 800XE (XL? X-something)</blockquote>