Avurax wrote:I received my first collecting Purple Heart (and realized I might have a collecting obsession) seven or eight years ago. I placed an order with a Canadian RPG seller (can't remember which one). Several hours after I placed my online order, the owner called me to verify I wasn't some punk kid who stole his parent's credit card. He said I placed the largest order he'd ever processed. I managed to pull this feat off again at my FLSG after going most of the summer without purchasing a single RPG item. Apparently I tried to make up for it in one trip. The shop owner said he sold me more that day (a Saturday) than he usually sells on any given weekday (M-F). Ouch! .
grodog wrote:Welcome aboard John: you're not the only tech geek here, by any means (I work for Juniper Networks, and several others have commented that they're in high tech too). How old are your kids? The gaming group I play in (to which I'll be heading off to around 9:30 this morning for a 12-ish hour head-to-head two-team tourney-format playtest of an AD&D adventure for GenCon) regularly has 10-20 people show up to play, and several of the guys' kids play---ranging in age from 6 to 18 or so. It's fun to see the kids playing too, they really have a blast
MShipley88 wrote:Welcome, Brogleo! High tech jobs are fairly standard for a lot of old gamer guys...many of them were into high tech before there was a single computer class at their high school or even a computer in the attendance office. I too was sucked into the collecting hobby just over a year ago. One thing to watch out for is the "I Must Have It NOW or Never" syndrome. By and large, things do come back up onto EBay and other sources. Sometimes, the prices even fluctuate back down as market forces take hold. (There will never be a better time to buy large lots of Mayfair's Role Aids items, for instance. Judges Guild items are also at what will likely be the all-time low due to a market glut of the more common publications.) The old game stores are now closing down and going to EBay...sometimes with comical pricing. The old stores are now either hard into miniatures wargaming and collectable card games, or they are out of business....seems role-playing really is an entertainment bargain. Anyway, welcome here...and jump right in.Mark
FighterHayabusa wrote:Then I started playing D&D with some other friends and we formed a cult and killed some people (the last two parts are not true).
bombadil wrote:...There was a pile of heads stacked up around me at the end of every day. Very cold work. No gloves, blowing snow, bloody knife handle slippery as hell...