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[Sardaukar]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

The books are so treasured you keep them in a safe?

Bill

Because he loved them more than wife and life. Bringing those out would expose anyone to fate worse than death.

[:D]

[Sardaukar]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

The books are so treasured you keep them in a safe?

Bill

Because he loved them more than wife and life. Bringing those out would expose anyone to fate worse than death.

[:D]

[Skyros]

ORIGINAL: dorjun driver

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

ORIGINAL: dorjun driver




Stop reading that dreck before it's too late! It's right up there with the movie that can't be mentioned.

Damn you dorjun! I started laughing at your post about the movie that can't be mentioned and my wife gave me a look of disgust when I explained to her that I was laughing on a wargame site. [:D]

Is it possible to be anymore nerdy than a wargamer?

No. What's not funny about war?

But seriously, THAT book is the biggest waste of forest products I've ever had the displeasure of forcing my self to finish.

Its been a slow read on my kindle, very repetitive. Must say I do have my kids using the term the movie that shall not be named, they think its very funny and use it when rating other movies.

[dorjun driver]

Well, if it's on a Kindle, all right then.

[rockmedic109]

At the time I was living in an apartment that had a pipe bust in the upstairs unit above me. I lost a LOT of games and books. The gun safe was...well, safe.

My wife still doesn't know how to open the safe. A great place to hide birthday, anniversery and Christmas gifts.

I keep the passports, the clothes my little girl came in {we adopted her from China and are going back for another in 2 weeks}, important documents, a first printing of Star Fleet Technical Manual {someday it'll be worth more than the $5 I paid for it}, the original D&D game books in pristine condition, and a couple of guns, all safe.

Now my wife wants a small wall safe.

[davidgillsol]

Job:Audit director
Age: 52
Residence: High Wycombe, England
Family:1 ex wife, 1 son just starting physics PhD. GFU is a nurse
Education: MA Economics -Cambridge
Work: Medium size accountancy firm in London
Favorite Quote: I though i saw a light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just a bloody train coming towards me....
Reading:Currently Operation Barbarossa- David Glantz ( been updating my reading on the Russian front after starting to play WITE)

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Oh my...........[&o]

[Skyros]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Oh my...........[&o]

To think I traded my interest in a set for Tractics.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Oh my...........[&o]

I've got all my 1st and 2nd Edition AD&D stuff. Heck would still love to play once the boys are older and I can have some of a life back.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: Skyros
Its been a slow read on my kindle, very repetitive. Must say I do have my kids using the term the movie that shall not be named, they think its very funny and use it when rating other movies.

I never saw that movie. I ordered it on Netflix once and the disc sat there for two weeks. I couldn't bring myself to watch it. I finally sent it back without even putting it in the DVD player.

It's too bad such a large scale production turned out to be such junk. There is a realism movement in Hollywood these days that have brought us some historically accurate movies. I guess some old time executives got ahold of TMTCBN.

Bill

[Bearcat2]

Job: Federal retiree
Age: 61
Residence: Cincinnati, Ohio
Family: wife, 3 children, 4 grandchildren
Education: Accounting Degree, Univ of Northern Colorado
Work: Currently, manager of small minatures company
Favorite Quote: below
Reading - God's War

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Which ones? As in the original Chainmail rule book? Or the old Gygax and Arneson set of 3? Greyhawk?

[rockmedic109]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Which ones? As in the original Chainmail rule book? Or the old Gygax and Arneson set of 3? Greyhawk?

Set of three. I never owned Chainmail I sold a few copies at a game store I worked at, but never bought it myself.

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Which ones? As in the original Chainmail rule book? Or the old Gygax and Arneson set of 3? Greyhawk?

Set of three. I never owned Chainmail I sold a few copies at a game store I worked at, but never bought it myself.

That's what I have, the set of three. But they are worn out and dog eared.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

the original D&D game books in pristine condition,

Which ones? As in the original Chainmail rule book? Or the old Gygax and Arneson set of 3? Greyhawk?

Set of three. I never owned Chainmail I sold a few copies at a game store I worked at, but never bought it myself.

Pretty sure I have all my originals around somewhere. My elder son isn't a game player, takes after Mom. Younger son, too early to tell. But maybe. We'll see.

[Gridley380]

Since you expressed a desire for newbies like myself:

Job: Engineer, Boeing Commercial Aircraft
Age: 30's
Residence: Washington (state)
Family: Wife and two perpetually terrified cats
Education: BS Mech E, Paramedic
Work: Junior Assistant Herder of Cats for the BCA portion of the interior of the KC-46A
Favorite Quote: This too shall pass
Reading: Just finished Terry Pratchet's Thief of Time. Partway through some book about dealing with back pain and the latest Cheaper Than Dirt catalog.


Oh, and Termite2: which miniature company? Wonder if I have any of your stuff...

[Bearcat2]

Thunderbolt Mountain

[CaptDave]

ORIGINAL: dorjun driver

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

ORIGINAL: dorjun driver




Stop reading that dreck before it's too late! It's right up there with the movie that can't be mentioned.

Damn you dorjun! I started laughing at your post about the movie that can't be mentioned and my wife gave me a look of disgust when I explained to her that I was laughing on a wargame site. [:D]

Is it possible to be anymore nerdy than a wargamer?

No. What's not funny about war?

But seriously, THAT book is the biggest waste of forest products I've ever had the displeasure of forcing my self to finish.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it the biggest waste of forest products, but it does have some pretty bad spots (which, unfortunately, outnumber the good). Poor editing, many inaccuracies, but just enough good parts to make me keep reading it. It is, though, eminently easy to put down and not pick back up for several days!

I do at least appreciate the attempt to talk about life on the home front in wartime, a subject usually dismissed by most authors. I remember my high school history text had 7 chapters on the Civil War (and one for the entire first 75 years of the 20th century), but all it talked about was the war. Life went on for those not directly involved -- why can't we read something about them now and then?

[jetjockey]

Job: FAA
Age: 50
Residence: Pittsburgh,PA
Family: Wife plus two
Education: BS Meteorology, Navy Flight School, latest ATP: A-320
Work: Aviation Safety Inspector
Favorite Quote: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Reading: Mark Levin

Greetings all!

[JSBoomer]

Job: Sheriff and an Infantry Platoon 2 I/C on weekends
Age:39
Residence: Edmonton Alberta
Family: None
Education: Malaspina UC and the book of hard knocks...
Favorite Quotes: "They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"
"
"Go ahead, take the moral highground; all that heavenly backglow makes you an easier target."
Reading: Starship Troopers, I have read it once a year for the last twenty and have never tired of it.