D&D 1E Whatever happened to the 1E Iconics?

[GreyLord]

Look, all you whippersnappers with your attack cantrips and your healing hit dice and your feats. Back in the day, I used to walk 10 miles in a snowstorm, uphill, just so that I could play a first level Magic User with 2 hit points. And you know what? I'd get there, and cast my single light spell, and right after that I was killed, KILLED by a kobold with a dull butter knife. And you know what I did then? I'd walk 10 miles back, ALSO UPHILL, in that same snowstorm. That's how I PLAYED REAL D&D, AND I LOVED IT!

Only reason it ever seemed uphill on the way back was because we were all drunk on the walk back. It wasn't just uphill, the world itself decided to make it tougher by spinning and teeter tottering. That's just how it was back in the old days when we could have beer for lunch and 1/4 of our classmates died before we ever became adults.

Half the fun of gaming was an escape from a world set on destroying us. It was a time to kick back and drink heavily while carousing and rolling dice. If there was a pizza, that was a bonus.

You tell that to the young people of today and they won't believe us...nope....nope they won't.

Of course, I do hear it is a little similar with some these days with some...but they use mountain dew instead. How in the world do you ever relax enough on mountain dew?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Look, all you whippersnappers with your attack cantrips and your healing hit dice and your feats. Back in the day, I used to walk 10 miles in a snowstorm, uphill, just so that I could play a first level Magic User with 2 hit points. And you know what? I'd get there, and cast my single light spell, and right after that I was killed, KILLED by a kobold with a dull butter knife. And you know what I did then? I'd walk 10 miles back, ALSO UPHILL, in that same snowstorm. That's how I PLAYED REAL D&D, AND I LOVED IT!

And you were Always the First to Die.

 

[Mannahnin]

Duh, of course they did. music was better, movies were better, heck even water tasted better.

Pffft. Water was foul-tasting poison! Poison I say! Compared to the wonderful elixir that was full sugar, caffeinated soda.

 

[Joshua Randall]

While Googling, I learned that the name 'Gutboy Barrelhouse' was lifted wholesale from a science-fiction story, "Nine Hundred Grandmothers", by R.A. Lafferty, also published in a collection of short stories with that same name, in 1970. Thus it seems that Gygax lifted the name wholesale from Lafferty.

Does this mean this particular 1e 'iconic' lives on, forever, as long as Lafferty's work is remembered and republished?

 

[Mannahnin]

Was

While Googling, I learned that the name 'Gutboy Barrelhouse' was lifted wholesale from a science-fiction story, "Nine Hundred Grandmothers", by R.A. Lafferty, also published in a collection of short stories with that same name, in 1970. Thus it seems that Gygax lifted the name wholesale from Lafferty.

Does this mean this particular 1e 'iconic' lives on, forever, as long as Lafferty's work is remembered and republished?

Is the character a Dwarf Fighter with a reputation as an "evil marauder"? If not, then I suggest that the AD&D character and the Lafferty character are not the same individual.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Is the character a Dwarf Fighter with a reputation as an "evil marauder"? If not, then I suggest that the AD&D character and the Lafferty character are not the same individual.

Not the same individual, but in a mystical way, all Gutboy Barrelhouses are the same Gutboy Barrelhouse.