Whatever happened to old board members...

[Rune]

You may well have had different experiences than mine.

I am an original member of the Pantheon. (Henry, God of Enthusiasm, "C'mon, August!", Deities local #7347, pleased to meet you.) However, I no longer play in those ivory halls of Mount Hater.

The whole pantheon thing started as loads of fun, and membership was a difficult as getting membership into B.A.D.D. - if you could think of a portfolio that had not been taken, such as, Say, God of Washing Pink Bottles on Days that End in "Y", then you felt free to participate.

HENRY'S PAGE OF BOARD HISTORY:

LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: The Pantheon threads were the absolute beginnings of the In-Character Forum. People complained about Pantheon threads existing in General, so Eric came up with a place for them.

"CHARWOMAN GENE": Charwoman Gene was the result of Eric running one day's front page news through a Translator program (I beleive Babelfish on Altavista). It mangled the page in quite humorous ways, including turning the Character Generator (that came with the PHB) into "Charwoman Gene." A poster with the last name of Gauthier (can't remember his first name) picked up on this and started posting as "Charwoman Gene."

The poster who was Charwoman Gene actually started the idea of the Pantheon. With a thread about deciding to be a god, the other posters of the time joined in, and the in-character Pantheon Thread was born. The first Pantheon thread may have been the first thread to exceed psoting size on those old boards!

I can't believe I actually have fuzzy memories of those carefree, innocent days before The Release. It almost seems like yesterday.

 

[King_Stannis]

Oh lord, I'm flashing back to when I stupidly called it something along the lines of the "in-crowd." I'm still smarting over it. I really put my foot in my mouth then, and I paid for it.

my good colonel, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....

 

[Matafuego]

WoooooooOoOoO I remember PA and his photoshopped pics... that was great...
And happiy I see the Gnomish Industry Revolution in BUgbear's sig...
Those times were great...
What's the link for Nutkniland? I went there one or twice before my machine passed out and had to be ressurrected...

 

[The It's Man]

(...)What's the link for Nutkniland? I went there one or twice before my machine passed out and had to be ressurrected...

http://pub53.ezboard.com/bnutkinland

 

[Gargoyle]

....
The poster who was Charwoman Gene actually started the idea of the Pantheon. With a thread about deciding to be a god, the other posters of the time joined in, and the in-character Pantheon Thread was born. The first Pantheon thread may have been the first thread to exceed psoting size on those old boards!

Yes, I remember the original post. The title was something like "I'm going insane". After the numbers started creeping up, I took a look, thinking it might be some house rules on insanity in D&D, like the d20 Call of Cthulu stuff has now. After figuring out that it was a place to be insane, I declared myself the god of misunderstanding post titles...

 

[V-2]

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I hear Rinndlair and Ruin Explorer are off running guns in Central America.
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And arguing about Exalted's combat mechanics with the drunken remnants of the old Contra units.

All while listening to Linkin Park and Billy Idol. Or so I hear. But that's a secret.

 

[Matafuego]

Thanks "The It's Man"...
Cthulhu d20 is out? I've been sleeping a long time I guess... Are the insanity rules available somewhere or it's just not SRD?

 

[el-remmen]

puts on moderator hat

Can we not turn a nice trip down memory lane into a flame-fest, please?

You flame the Pantheon. They come over here and flame you. I have to moderate my fellow Pantheon members. You flame them back, and then yadda yadda yadda everyone gets cranky. It's not fun.

takes off the cap


Only today I was thinking about starting a thread about "Who were the Mods when you first joined up?"

For myself, if I recall correctly, it was: Eric Noah (of course), Pirate Cat and Muad'dib (what happened to him?)

What about you?

 

[Randolpho]

Muad'dib (what happened to him?)

Yes... what *did* happen to him?

 

[Piratecat]

No idea!

When I was here, it was just Eric. He wanted to spin off story hours into their own forum and make me a mod; I resisted. He won.