Got mine yesterday, here in sunny Melbourne Australia. Awesome stuff. Vornheim looks fabulously usable and grindhouse makes improvements in style and content over deluxe, which was already fantastic.
1 2011-05-10 11:55:07
Re: Got my box...and it's brilliant! (12 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
2 2010-10-05 06:29:49
Re: Introduce yourself! (218 replies, posted in LotFP Gaming Forum)
Hiya,
I'm Simon, the pusher of Old School onto Aaron C, above. I too am based in sunny Melbourne, just turned 39 and I started gaming in my last year of primary (elementary) school with the Moldvay Basic. Pretty soon the teacher had our entire grade running and playing D&D every Friday afternoon. I moved on to AD&D, etc and found my GMing groove with Shadowrun for quite a few years.
I grew disillusioned with the hobby for a while in the 90's and got back into D&D with 3e, which I enjoyed playing with my regular group but found an utter disaster and highly demoralising with some friends from work (a game shop). I caught the dreaded gamer ADD for many years after that.
LotFP appeals to me for its simplicity, the nostalgia being only a part of that. I love the OSR as it brings me back to what I loved when I first entered the hobby and gives me room to evaluate and improve on my GMing and playing without being overwhelmed by rules.
Our first session of LotFP was awesome and so inspired one player that he went out and for the first time in many years, bought the game. Gotta love that inspiration!