Thanks ENWorld

[Rel]

Have any pics of that you can share? I'll believe it when I see it.

I save that sort of thing for Circvs Maximvs.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Back in October/November 2010 time frame three opportunities fell into my lap almost simultaneously. So, thank you to...

Morrus, for the short lived EN World comic strip experiment (that didn't go so well, but it was a learning experience)...and, of course, for running the place.

Steve Russell, of Rite Publishing, for my first few published editing credits.

Trevor Kidd, of Wizards of the Coast, for my current position.

Even further back, in May 2007, I started a Play-by-Post, Tragedy at Silvergard, that began a chain of events that led to the aforementioned opportunities. So, thanks to Arkhandus, Jemal, Amaury, Yttermayn, Helfdan, Voda Vosa, shadowmask, and ethandrew, the original Silvergard players.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I save that sort of thing for Circvs Maximvs.

I've seen it, I'll vouch.

For me it's someone who is no longer in gaming and hasn't been for a long time, and may not even be in this world much longer, my cousin David. When we cam home from school together we would usually end up at his house listening to records and whatnot. One day he told me his uncle (my cousin) had just come back from California and had this cool new game. He taught it too me and the rest is history.

Unfortunately soon after David got out of D&D and into illegal substances, he hasn't ever been quite the same and now his health is failing. The really odd thing is, if it hadn't been for David turning me on to D&D I'm not sure I'd even still be here. Let's just say it was a safe port in a very volatile time in my life.

 

[the Jester]

Thanks, Cody.

Cody being the first guy I ever played D&D with.

 

[Herremann the Wise]

Hello buddhafrog,

I can't XP you any more at this particular stage but it looks like the members are sharing the love pretty well. I've found your threads intriguing and your gaming circumstances particularly peculiar (but wonderful all the same).

For me I would have to thank several people:

- Gary for making the whole thing possible.
- Ian Livingstone (and Steve Jackson) for producing the Fighting Fantasy Game Books that got me on this fantastic path in the first place and into the red box and AD&D.
- Iain McCaig and Jeff Easley for producing the most amazing artwork that could instantly transport me into the realms of fantasy.
- And on the EN World forums in particular Piratecat and Sepulchrave for producing two magnificent story hours that showed me how high level games could be played and thus opened my eyes to a whole new gaming vista.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[Rel]

For me I would have to thank several people:

Wha? SEVERAL PEOPLE!?

This is egregious!!

 

[TarionzCousin]

I would like to thank Dave Arneson, for the spark that lit the flame.

 

[tuxgeo]

Re: thanking one person who made RPGs fun and accessible to me:

Has to be Ryan Dancey because of the OGL and SRD in the 2000s.

People near to me had dissuaded me from RPGs in the 1980s. I received "reliable" notification that the Books of the True Game were about D&D. I also received word from (?) their pseudonymous writer that D&D wasn't a great 97405 use of time or effort.
Having been dissuaded from D&D, I tried T&T; but that went nowhere fast.

Fast-forward to the 2000's: freely available D&D files from wizards.com gave me a whole game system to download and become enamored of -- with Domains! SLAs! Prestige cheeses, etc.
You, too, can Gnome (with racial Cantrips as SLAs? Bizarre!).

 

[Scott DeWar]

To M.D.Sheffield when i waws in the Air Force. he took a game that i liked and made it truley enjoyable! and to the gamers in that group, wherever they may be!

 

[Super Pony]

I gotta give my props to John Whiteleather, my first GM, and his grandfather George who bought him the red box so that we'd have something to do besides cause trouble with the other kids in our park.