Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Impeesa" data-source="post: 1313536" data-attributes="member: 498">I was just getting into gaming at the time, having picked up Magic in fall of '96 (beginning of grade 8 for me) and 1E AD&D a year later. The 1E books came from a friend's dad, when we got the budget we upgraded to a 1E/2E hybrid (ever see Combat & Tactics munched-out characters go up against 1E style dragons? Not pretty...). We played a whole lot of Alternity during its short lifetime, too. We had no idea TSR was in such poor shape - the first I heard of it was a blurb in an InQuest about the buyout (which I promptly forgot, since I didn't pick up AD&D until the next fall). Since I'm a terrible pack rat, I have it handy - here's a quick blast from the past. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This was accompanied by a picture of some undead-looking things and the caption "'Don't bury me.. I'm not dead yet!' - TSR's new corporate motto?" True IQ style. Looking back on it, some of that is kind of interesting.... targetting more mature audiences, indeed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And the last paragraph.... we all know what became of that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--Impeesa--</blockquote>

Verification