When LONE WOLF's Joe Dever Met TABLETOP'S Wil Wheaton

One item available at Gen Con was the new Lone Wolf Adventure Game from Cubicle 7. Creator Joe Dever encountered Wil Wheaton at the Cubicle 7 booth when the latter appeared to buy a copy of the game, although he didn't know it at the time! He kindly sent along this photograph and a short description.

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"One of the many Lone Wolf fans I met at Gen Con turned out to be none other than Wil Wheaton (Star Trek Next Gen, Stand By Me, The Guild, Toy Soldiers, Big Bang Theory). You can tell by the look on Wil’s face just how big a Lone Wolf fan he is. He’s also a genuinely nice guy and we had a long chat about the Lone Wolf game books (he has them all) and the new Lone Wolf Adventure Game.

I must admit that I was unaware of who he was when he visited the Cubicle 7 booth on the Saturday and, with hindsight, I'm glad I didn't know anything about him and his über-geek reputation. Our conversation was great as he's very knowledgeable about Lone Wolf (having read all the books) and we had an in-depth discussion about the minutiae of the series and the world. It was only after our long chat, and him buying one of the last remaining copies of LWAG, that everyone came rushing over to say: "Do you know who that is?!!!". I didn't then... but I do now!"

The Lone Wolf Adventure Game was a successful Kickstarter, based in the well-known world of Magnamund which was the setting for Joe Dever's bestselling Lone Wolf game books in the 1980s and 90s. You can get it from Cubicle 7 here.

[video=youtube;p9qM826P0ys]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qM826P0ys[/video]
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[neobolts]

I am not familiar with Joe Dever, but there's something lovable about creative-types who seem out of touch with the world around them. Wheaton's not only a veteran sci-fi actor and current big face in the fandom, but also technically a competitor thanks to Ashes of Valkana.

Clearly, someone should tell Dever about ENWorld so he can stay up on this stuff LOL.

 

[mlund]

Joe Dever isn't so much "out of touch" as he's "a more elegant weapon for a more civilized age," to steal a phrase from Star Wars. He's a fantasy author from 1970s and 1980s Britain. He was a D&D tournament champion in the early 80s. His adventure books were my gateway into the world of RPGs before I'd even heard about Dungeons and Dragons - "back in the before times," as it were. He's had his own franchise to focus on across the pond for like 40 years now, so it's understandable if he's not a mogul of the current generation's transitive pop-culture. I wouldn't be surprised or horrified if Michael Moorcock didn't know who Wil Weaton was either.

 

[Zarithar]

Well said mlund. I was actually more into the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, but did have the first 2 or 3 in the Lone Wolf series as well. It made enough of an impression on me however to back the Kickstarter... currently waiting on my boxed set!

 

[neobolts]

Joe Dever isn't so much "out of touch" as he's "a more elegant weapon for a more civilized age," to steal a phrase from Star Wars. He's a fantasy author from 1970s and 1980s Britain. He was a D&D tournament champion in the early 80s. His adventure books were my gateway into the world of RPGs before I'd even heard about Dungeons and Dragons - "back in the before times," as it were. He's had his own franchise to focus on across the pond for like 40 years now, so it's understandable if he's not a mogul of the current generation's transitive pop-culture. I wouldn't be surprised or horrified if Michael Moorcock didn't know who Wil Weaton was either.

Good info. And no, I wouldn't have the same expections of a novelist as a game designer regarding knowledge of the gaming community. Thanks for bringing me up to speed.

 

[Henry]

Thanks for reminding me that i had gotten away from http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books before i finished them all -- and it looks like there are even more since i last looked! Fantastic!

Wil is absolutely a genuine Chief of the Tribe. He is so ecstatic when he encounters people like Dever, or Gygax, or the other 80's icons that shaped the geek-landscape he grew up in.

 

[graves3141]

Make it so Wesley Crusher!

 

[DM Howard]

Very cool. My friend almost ran right into Wheaton at one point when we were walking by the concession area. It's cool to see him there just being a gamer (for the most part) and I was surprised that the times I did see him that no one was trying to mob him for photos or signatures.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I'm 46 and my first exposure to Wil Wheaton was via the columns he wrote in Dungeon or Dragon for a while because so many people were whingeing and bitching online because he wrote them. But the first time I actually saw him on screen was on The Big Bang Theory.

Yes, I missed an entire decade's worth of TV....

 

[Tyranthraxus]

I'm 46 and my first exposure to Wil Wheaton was via the columns he wrote in Dungeon or Dragon for a while because so many people were whingeing and bitching online because he wrote them. But the first time I actually saw him on screen was on The Big Bang Theory.

Yes, I missed an entire decade's worth of TV....

Wheaton still looks weird to me with a Beard. I dont know why, he just does.

Dever for me is from the same awesome stable as guys like Ian Livingstone, Steve Jackson, Mark Smith and Jaimie Thomson.

Way of the Tiger was my fave and I always remember it showed pictures of the combat moves with in Bold 'Do not try these'