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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
At Con on the Cob this weekend, I met one of the members of the Dead Game Society. He had been playing or running games of 1st edition AD&D, Top Secret, Boot Hill, Gangbusters, and other "old school" '80's-era RPGs. The group does just that, play old games at conventions, rather than the newer stuff. I had a ball in a 2-person game of Top Secret, on the run through 1953 East Berlin.
This sounded like something I could get behind, and I'm feeling inspired to join them and pen some T2k one-shots for use at conventions near me. One of the suggestions was 1961 Cuba, which could be a good spot for a raid/sabotage operation.
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Admiral,
That would be fantastic! Would you be using v2.2 or going really old school with T2K v1?
Within the last 5-6 years I've run Gamma World (1st ed.), Morrow Project 3rd ed. (
Liberation at Riverton,
Final Watch), Boot Hill (1st ed.), Twilight 2000 (v2.2), Call of Cthulhu (5th ed.), Classic Traveller (
The Chamax Plague). Games I've recently tried to get going but not quite succeeded (yet) include Aftermath! (
Empire of Karo), The Price of Freedom (
The PATH of Freedom) and Delta Force (starting soon, probably
Terror at Sea). Not all of these are original edition but it's the thought that counts! I'm not currently running 1st ed. AD&D but I am running Hackmaster 4th edition (
Quest For the Unknown and
Little Keep on the Borderlands), which is basically AD&D 1st ed. on steroids.
These have generally been 1-shot games (with the exception of my long-running T2K and Morrow Project campaigns). Come to think of it, most of these I never got a chance to run or play back when I was a serious gamer in high school even though I wanted to. (The exceptions being GW, T2K and pre-everything Traveller.)
Christ, maybe that's my version of a mid-life crisis... instead of trying to capture my lost youth with an impulse-bought sports car or Harley and a trading my wife for a younger model (so to speak) I'm instead doing it via gaming. Just for fun I pulled out Squad Leader (not ASL) and enjoyed a play-through of "Buchholz Station" solo for some reason, now I know why! (I already have a younger wife who has promised to buy me a motorcycle as soon as we can afford it so I have that angle well-covered.)
Tony