Re: An introduction AND EVEN AN ON TOPIC BIT!

Steve Gill wrote:

> Rob Paul started this bit with:
>
> >Well, since we're all doing it:
> >
> >I'm 36, and I've been wargaming "seriously" since I was 12 (i.e. in
1974)-
> >Airfix tanks and infantry using Charles Grant's "Battle: Practical
> >wargaming" rules, plus Donald Featherstone's books from the library.
>
> Is it just me or did just about everyone start with some version
(usually
> heavily hacked) of Charles Grant's 'Battle' rules?
>

"Battle" rules...what are those...my first real wargame was "Warpwar"
(by
Metagaming), and then "Tactics II" (by Avalon Hill)

>
> FYI I started gaming in 1972 with the aforementioned rules. Started
RPGing
> with the old D&D White box (still around the house somewhere) and
spent most
> of the late 70s hacking D&D into an SF game. Then somewhere around
1980 I
> discovered US gaming mags, Traveller and other SF games and the world
> changed.
>
> ---
> Steve Gill
> Steve@caws.demon.co.uk

You turned D&D into a SF game?	How successfull was it?

Donald Hosford