Roof and tunnel hacking is a thing, and at MIT is something of a tradition, but I don't rate anyone playing any tabletop game in a steam tunnel unless it was to be ironic. Paper gets soggy in places like that.What convinces you that "At MSU, and other college campuses, this actually happened to some extent"? As far as I'm aware there's never been any evidence that anyone actually did that.
Sure. Having wandered the tunnels under MIT a little myself in more recent years, it wouldn't surprise me if someone got the idea AFTER Dear created the legend. I've just never seen any real evidence that people were trying such things in the 70s, especially not any place as unhospitable as tunnels with average 115 degree fahrenheit temperatures.Roof and tunnel hacking is a thing, and at MIT is something of a tradition, but I don't rate anyone playing any tabletop game in a steam tunnel unless it was to be ironic. Paper gets soggy in places like that.
For what it's worth, Egbert's family has publicly stated that "most of the things in the book are inaccurate."Right, it is just a summary. I had to leave out tons of stuff, like how his men combed an early GenCon searching for the kid, and all the problems Dear had with campus police. I have no idea what was real or not in the book, it was just a good story. It reads like fiction for sure. Maybe parts are fiction.
Holy mackerel! That movie would give Die Hard some stiff competition.Which is almost hard to believe, considering that Dear wrote in The Dungeon Master that he once rescued another child from a group of armed cultists, exchanging gunfire with them as he carried the kid to a helicopter that was waiting to fly them out.![]()
Polyhedral Die Hard!Holy mackerel! That movie would give Die Hard some stiff competition.
"Now I have a Wand of Wonder. Ho-ho-ho."Holy mackerel! That movie would give Die Hard some stiff competition.
"I think he went way overboard with all his quotation marks. After all these years, I don't know how he could remember all those conversations."For what it's worth, Egbert's family has publicly stated that "most of the things in the book are inaccurate."
Which is almost hard to believe, considering that Dear wrote in The Dungeon Master that he once rescued another child from a group of armed cultists, exchanging gunfire with them as he carried the kid to a helicopter that was waiting to fly them out.![]()