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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5686083" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>I started gaming in the mid 70's with D&D but our informal "club" played a lot of other games as well. Lots of boardgames (old and new), a little bit of micro-armor, other RPGs (mostly sci fi oriented though, like Traveller and Space Opera, and I myself eventually ran a fair amount of d6 Star Wars). We played every Saturday almost all day and would often take a break for food and a few hours of videogames.</p><p> </p><p>It's because we were open to playing more than just D&D that we were more of a club, though we didn't think of ourselves that way. And we were from several different schools and even fairly far apart in the city so it was our mutual interest in games (though overwhelmingly D&D) that brought us together as a group.</p><p> </p><p>My understanding of older, and/or more formal groups is that they weren't all that different and that's why there's not a lot of recorded historical information about them - they ddin't keep many formal records or memorialize what they were doing. They were just a bunch of guys like us who'd get together every week to play wargames of various kinds. The only reason we really consider them any different is that some of them went so far as to create new games entirely and publish the rules for them either informally through their club or more formally as a retail product for the emerging gaming-hobby market.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5686083, member: 32740"] I started gaming in the mid 70's with D&D but our informal "club" played a lot of other games as well. Lots of boardgames (old and new), a little bit of micro-armor, other RPGs (mostly sci fi oriented though, like Traveller and Space Opera, and I myself eventually ran a fair amount of d6 Star Wars). We played every Saturday almost all day and would often take a break for food and a few hours of videogames. It's because we were open to playing more than just D&D that we were more of a club, though we didn't think of ourselves that way. And we were from several different schools and even fairly far apart in the city so it was our mutual interest in games (though overwhelmingly D&D) that brought us together as a group. My understanding of older, and/or more formal groups is that they weren't all that different and that's why there's not a lot of recorded historical information about them - they ddin't keep many formal records or memorialize what they were doing. They were just a bunch of guys like us who'd get together every week to play wargames of various kinds. The only reason we really consider them any different is that some of them went so far as to create new games entirely and publish the rules for them either informally through their club or more formally as a retail product for the emerging gaming-hobby market. [/QUOTE]
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