In Oslo there was a radioshow called Midnight Magic which main feature was
roleplaying, the listners could call inn & take the role of a medieval or sf
hero and do variuos task. It was this show who got me into gaming, and it
was off course sponsored by the only gameshop in town at the time. A small,
dark place with dusty corners, situated in a side alley, ran by fat bloke
with greasy hear. (Those wore the days...)
I went to the store, and a whole new world opened up to me! Games, games &
even more games! I wanted to try them all, but alas, I where at high school
at the time and had no money, and my friends wasn't really into gaming...
I began at a new school and met new people with decent interests (Nils among
them) got summer & side jobs, and thats where it really started. It was
(most likely) after a summerjob I finally had some money burning in my
pocket. I wanted a BIG GAME (me big game, ugh!) Nils had Axis & Allies and I
also wanted a game. So with some money to spend I went to the dark, dusty
shop in the side alley and presented my money to the fat dealer. Off course
I knew exactly what I wanted, the big box with the huge tank on the top,
Space Marines!
Time went by, and I went to a boarding school in an other part of the
country, met some other gamers and brought Space Marines with me. There a
fatal thing happend! When school was out I forgot/lost the rules book!! With
no chance of getting the book back, no money to buy a new game it was about
a year without the favorite game.
When I was in the service though, a chance presented itself. A bloke in my
platoon was schedueled for kitchenservice, a whole saturday in the kitchen
doing the dishes. He had a girlfriend home, and a private job waiting, so he
offered me 500 kroners to take his shift at the kitchen. I said give me 600
and I'll do it. That way i got money to buy a new copy of the game + some
beer with my friends after the shift.
So that saturday I spent in the kitcen doing the dishes, my name for the day
was private Olsen although I really was a corporal (I actually forgot to
take off my distinctions...)This was higly irregular, so if I had been
busted I had gotten a large fee or some time in the slammer, maybe even
degraded!
The things you do for your favorite game...
Eivind
-----Original Message-----
From: Weasel Fierce [mailto:septimus__at_...]
Sent: 19. mai 2000 11:56
To: netepic_at_egroups.com
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] How did you get into epic?
> >How did you guys "find" epic, or did "epic" find you?
i found Epic.
I started out playing various GW games (My first game ever was Blood bowl,
followed by Space hulk, warahmmer fantasy (which I later grew to despise)
and finally 40K
Me and my friends often looked with curious minds at the pics in white dwarf
of epic models, but didnt really have the guts or money to start playing it.
THen E40K came out and we dived rihgt in. THis was great fun depsie some
flaws, but I got more hooked than the sysem could bear, and started surfing
the web for finding information on the old 2nd edition game which so many
gamers at conventions had talked about.
Then I found NetEpic......and the rest is just happy gaming
I only got in Adeptus Titanicus when I found it on Tzeentch666's excellent
home page.
Later, I have gotten into Necromunda, Mordheim, Battletech, Warzone (2nd
edition), Warmaster, Axis and allies and various rule systems found on the
internet.
I have even written my own sci-fi skirmish system (Strife) which Peter from
our jolly mailing list has kinda approved....so it has to be good ;)
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