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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3369709" data-attributes="member: 34865">That's a tough one.My buddy who took me out for my bachelor's night pub crawl, great guy.  He'd give you the shirt off his back, the food off of his plate and the money out of his wallet.  He had demons, though.I think about him from time to time when I game - because that's where I met him, at the gaming table - and I miss him terribly.  He was a pain in the butt, a powergamer, a trouble-maker and on and on but he was my friend.  He didn't have any one super duper memorable character nor was there one ongoing campaign that spanned years that we all had epic stories about; we usually played CHAMPIONS or some flavor of D&D or sometimes just free-form roll a die, 50-50 chance of making it or not because we were all bored and it was game night...His name comes up almost every gaming session; we remember some cockamamie thing he'd do or say, sometimes not even gaming related.  Sometimes he'd tell us all not to go to xyz bar or club but instead to abc bar or club and he'd meet us there - and then never show.  Other times we'd show up at his house ready to game and he'd cook us a seven course dinner while we played.He treated my wife like royalty and was the calmest guy in the world around her.  While he didn't always show it he worshipped the ground his own wife walked on and loved his kids with all his big heart.Tim Woolhouse was a wonderful, complex, infuriating, fun hurricane of a person to have blow by you and generally you were happier for the occurrence.One thing that sticks out in my mind the most is when he called me one night - years and years ago - to ask me why I'd blown off gaming for the last few weeks.  The gist of his scolding was that it was important that we all get together and hang out, that friendship was important to him and to everyone else.I know now how profound his words were beyond out frivilious little hobby of parlor games and tin knights and dragons.In respect to that, I make it a point to get together with the remaining guys - of the fourteen of us who hung out in 1989 there's just myself, Kevin and occassionally Rob (although Rob has recently moved away).We game because...we do.</blockquote>

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