Dungeons and Dragons artist dies

CBC ^ | 6/15/05

[Windsong]

"I don't know about suicides, but I knew some people who got *way* too wrapped up in it

Like Freepers? :)

[BJClinton]

Dang, I'm such a nerd.

[RogueIsland]

There's not much strategy involved in classic D&D. It's mostly all about the outcome of the die rolls.

You've either never played, or played with a very poor DM if you can make that statement. We are talking PnP here, not CRPG.

[dangus]

>> You do know that geeking is also a porn term. <<
Uh, no I didn't. Lack of research. Normally, I wouldn't want to know what a porn term means, but I'd like to know what I just accidentally said about myself. Plus, I'm trying to think of any women whose eyes might have grown unnaturally when I used that term. :^D

(And I can always fall back on insisting that geeking and geeking out are unrelated terms.)

[Sir Gawain]

I wasted so much times as a kid playing those stupid games.

Actually games that engage your creativity and imagination are much better than TV or video games.

[dangus]

Aah, there was that brief and shining moment in the early '90's when the internet opened up the world of perpetual, international role-playing games, led by Dungeon-Masters ("Wizards") who would furiously code new realm after realm, while gamers chatted away, "emoted," and met new friends across the globe.

I played a Finnish "MUD" (Multi-User Dungeon; think "Multi-Dungeonmaster") with participants from England, Israel, Australia, Germany, the States, Italy, Russian, Sweden, etc.

[escapefromboston]

Is D&D still popular? I remember D&D stores in the mall, so back in the 80s it had to be pretty popular. It seems all those stores went out of business now.

[Moral Hazard]

"but I'd like to know what I just accidentally said about myself."

In porn terminology "geeking" refers to the process of inserting the penis in all the way into the vagina, then removing it completely for a short period of time and repeating. It's often done with the man's hand around the base of the penis. It's usually used to prolong the period of time before ejaculation.

[Starter]

Every once in a while, someone mentions Trampier in gaming circles. The general answer that comes back is that even though it's been 15+ years since he up and vanished, no one at TSR will speak about what happened on the record. (One of the TSR staffers was his brother-in-law, and he reports that he won't speak to him either.)

However, a few people have come into contact with him. They won't get too specific, but the reports are that he's alive, well, living somewhere in the Midwest, and wants absolutely nothing to do with gaming at all. (Which is regrettible, especially since he partly owns the rights to the game Titan, which people would really like to reprint.)

Personally, I'm wondering what happened to JD Webster. I know he joined the Air Force and briefly resurfaced in the early 90s, but there's been nary a peep from him since.