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by drewcoo 1514 days ago
Not even a mention of Tunnels and Trolls?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_%26_Trolls

We used to joke that it was a gateway drug to making friends who played real games. Together.

Because we were geeks. Back when a game master with some recipe cards full of encounters was a better way to spend a Friday night than playing Zork.

T&T -> D&D -> nothing else, really, just D&D
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daggersandscars 1514 days ago
T&T was awesome. A group of us in grade school / junior high played T&T and passed the solo dungeons around. A few of us lived within a bike ride of one of the few "gaming" stores that carried T&T and monitored the shelves for new (to us) arrivals.

It was great in a time/place where public transit wasn't a thing and the only way to "voice chat" was to monopolize the only land line.

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themodelplumber 1514 days ago
Not even a mention of MSPE? :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenaries,_Spies_and_Priva...

It's a fun book to read and from what I understand the mechanic is awfully familiar to T&T players.

I wrote a couple oracle scripts I use with it, but the CYOA style adventures in the series are really fun as well.

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