mayhem?metallica?slayer?
fat kids in sweatpants with acne?
― sarah, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
i always thought D&D fans would be into rubbish like Pendragon though!
― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Atleast it's not Yanni.
― __sarah, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― christina, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)
heh.
i dunno--how many other bands make direct Tolkien refs?
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)
I really thought it was a totally METALHEAD-like hobby.
― __sarah, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)
sounds like art fags/teen goths.
― unsarah, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Say what you will about them D&D nerds, they do have friends, they do participate in somewhat social activities, which is more than I can say for myself.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)
i dunno--how many other bands make direct Tolkien refs? -- Kingfish (jdsalmo...) (webmail), June 10th, 2003 4:51 PM. ( Kingfish) (later) (link)
-- Kingfish (jdsalmo...) (webmail), June 10th, 2003 4:51 PM. ( Kingfish) (later) (link)
FORCEFIELD, MINDFLAYER, LIGHTNING BOLT
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Brock K. (Brock K.), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)
(Though I do think Styx was warming up for it -- hell, maybe they are still.)
― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)
Most of the D&D (and RPGs in general) heads I know are either into: a) synthpop / goth dance / post-industrial, a la Sisters Of Mercy, Love & Rockets, Skinny Puppy. b) metal, punk, and hardcore, a la In Flames, NOFX, occasionally Helloween. c) Warp and ambient house, a la FSOL, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Reload. d) popo music of various and assorted types, a la Tortoise, Black Dice, and the occasional dash of prog.
This classifies every person I've ever known who was into RPGs and music. I've been a gamer way too long.
― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Also we listened to the Conan the Barbarian score while playing; it was great battle music.
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)
if i were to play D&D today the soundtrack would be bo hansson, ash ra tempel, the nazgul, mindflayer, comus, diabolus - nerdy d&d themed music and english folk/prog. maybe throw some enslaved in there.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)
- from GURPS Cyberpunk
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
sarah: CAN I PLEASE ASK WHAT "GOTH DANCE" MUSIC IS?music for chicks dressed like Siouxsie to do the slow-motion my-arms-are-snake neo-egyptian wiggle dance to.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― masta ace, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
THANKS A LOT!
:)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)
20 sided dice and atari 4 life bitches
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)
"INTERESTING"
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
If I'm not mistaken, Gygax later sold all his holdings in TSR and somehow went utterly pennyless due to some bad business decisions. Pretty sad, actually. Wonder what happened to cats like Erol Otus and Jeff Dee (fellow recovering gamers may recognize those names).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I grew up playing wargames with my dad and his friends - Napoleonics, American Civil War and some ancients, mostly. And Battletech - I liked Battletech mostly because the minis were large enough for me to paint. D&Ders were mostly looked down upon, though nowadays I wouldn't even try to claim that redoing Shiloh with every unit that was there on terrain that matched the battle perfect is any less nerdy than being a 10th level halfling elf.
I sold off two comic boxes worth of Battletech sourcebooks earlier this year on Ebay. People will pay crazy prices for 3025-era books.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)
oh, come on - the wargamers were the biggest scary losers around, the only people D&Ders would mock. scary, scary guys who LIVED at the game store and were always building fuckin' sand tables to move their little tanks around on.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
Probably the same number of people in the world who are named Lord Custos Epsilon...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Lots and lots of Rush (the Official Band Of D&D Nerds everwhere, apparently), lots of Yes, and more or less: King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull (Songs from the Wood, especially), the Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack, the Blade Runner Soundtrack, and Dark Side of the Moon. Our DM also had a thing for Tangerine Dream and one of our half-elven fighter magic-users was a Lynyrd Skynyrd freak.
― Paul Ess, Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)
The Battletech crowd fit your description, though. All the worst elements of miniature fetishism with the hygiene of a roleplayer stereotype.
The only group I ever had a problem with was live-action roleplayers. I worked merchandise tables at some gaming conventions, and invariably Vampire roleplayers would pull a fire alarm at three in the morning.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 12 June 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)
As far as music goes, Iron Maiden still makes me want to go crawl in a dungeon.
― Scott Stanley, Thursday, 12 June 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)
No date required, but for all you wizards and warriors.. ROCK and HUZZAH!
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)
i like to think we they would be near the top. to think of the dozens of hours i spent playing autoduel on my apple ][ clone, storming through exotic cities like trenton, providence and philadelphia.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Warhammer is on par with GURPS and that stuff I assume.
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― adam (adam), Thursday, 12 June 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Currently I think the HeroClix guys must be around the very bottom, perhaps just above Yu-Gi-Oh. Magic The Gathering and such have moved up from the bottom to somewhere near the middle, but they still spend way too much money and non-playing time on it. With pencil & paper RPG gamers and the old-school Battletech people I think there's at least a better tradeoff - you buy a few books and visit Kinko's a couple of times and there you go, that's all you need really. Serious miniatures gamers, like the ones who would go out and buy appropriately-scaled model railroad forestry and buildings, always struck me as insane.
Then again, I have a 1200-CD barrister that is filled to bursting with dub techno shite and etcetera.
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Or insanely rich.
One of the guys I played with was an art restorer, and had a 1,000+ square-foot space attached to his office building that was terrain storage and playing area. The terrain tables were built in 5x5 sections so you could get make battlefields as large as you wanted, and still get to the middle. There were months-long games that just stayed setup.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 12 June 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
"Ring Their Bells, or, The Munchkin's Carol" by the Sea Wasp
"Slashing through the Orcs/ With a good two-handed bladeOver corpses we go/ And through the gore we wadeMace on helmet rings/ Making bodies flyWhat fun to sing our SLAYING song/ And watch these suckers die!
Chorus:Oh, ring their bells with swords and spells/ Don't let 'em get away!We're brave and bold for fame and gold/ We'll make a lot today!Oh, ring their bells with swords and spells/ Don't let 'em get away!We'll hack and slash and blast and trash/ And blow these dudes away!
Crashing through the door/ Into the dragon's noseOur mage whips out a Cone of Cold/ And out its fire goes!Elven bowstrings sing/ Making balrogs fallAnd our thief finds a secret door/ Into the treasure hall!
(Chorus)
Then appears the Lich/ With his demon guardOur wizard yawns and wishes/ We'd run into something HARD...He begins to cast/ His 19th level spellThat damn Lich throws a Gate at us/ And drops us all in Hell!
We appear in Hell/ In front of Satan's ThroneOur cleric waves us out the door/ And takes him on alone!Satan's legions don't/ Want to let us goOur Techno pulls a bazooka out/ And NUKES 'em 'til they GLOW!
Oh, ring their bells with prayers and spells/ Don't let 'em get away!We're brave and bold and CRAZED, we're told/ To think we'll live the day!Oh, ring their bells with swords and shells/ Don't let 'em get away!We'll hack and slash and blast and trash/ And blow these dudes away! Yes, we'll hack and slash and blast and trash And drag our loot away!!
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― sarah mccormick (unsarah), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)
https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/ii
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:49 (seven years ago)
the sdtk to my group's recent sessions has been either horror/western soundtracks (Morricone, Goblin, etc.) or 70s metal
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:59 (seven years ago)