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From: DanielMLaenker

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:03:38 GMT

Subject: Gurps@GenCon


Forgive the newbie again, but... GenCon is where,
exactly? And I've always been confused whether it's
the location that makes it eminent or the nature of
the con itself.

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0 Hate to be the one to be nit-picking, but RPG's had developed in Great Britian (Tunnels & Trolls, and a couple of others) prior to Gary Gygax coming up with D&D and starting TSR in Lake Geneva. AaronLoriSmalley 2000-08-29 01:06:17
1 Great > Britian (Tunnels & Trolls, and a couple of others) prior to Gary Gygax > coming up with D&D and starting TSR in Lake Geneva. That's not true. MikeDemetro 2000-08-29 01:26:38
2 Aaron, I'm guessing that you are going to be defending this claim for a while, but I'm curious as to the "couple of others" you mention. Tunnels & Trolls was written by Ken St. AndrewDawson 2000-08-29 01:23:43
3 According to Gygax himself the die came from school/science supply stores and that is why all the origianl die where the same colors and were made from very cheap plastic I have my original 20 sider and it is almost completely round. RolandPerry 2000-08-29 18:42:14
4 before, or did the games necessitate their invention? GordonHorne 2000-08-29 19:32:44
5 that > does? MikeDemetro 2000-08-29 02:31:03
6 was on it >and he is still in Arizona, USA. JohannHibschman 2000-08-30 15:14:24
7 [mailto:fudge-error@phoenyx.net]On Behalf | Of Lizard | Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:12 PM | To: fudge@phoenyx.net | Subject: Re: FUDGE: Gurps@GenCon | | | Some histories of RPGs can be found at | http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/faqdir/rec.g JohnUghrin 2000-08-30 01:08:28
8 before, or did the games necessitate their invention? MikeDemetro 2000-08-29 21:04:22
9 Some histories of RPGs can be found at http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/faqdir/rec.games.frp.dnd-3.txt and http://ptgptb.humbug.org.au/0001/history1.html "Daniel M. Lizard 2000-08-29 16:11:37
10 In a message dated 8/29/00 8:54:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dmlaenker@yahoo.com writes: > > Hate to be the one to be nit-picking, but RPG's had > > developed in Great > > Britian (Tunnels & Trolls, and a couple of others) > > prior to Gary Gy DocCross 2000-08-29 16:07:04
11 does not predate D&D, do you have any > evidence of an RPG that > > does? DanielMLaenker 2000-08-29 16:05:31
12 evidence of an RPG that > does? AaronLoriSmalley 2000-08-29 02:41:16
13 one to be nit-picking, but RPG's had developed in Great >Britian (Tunnels & Trolls, and a couple of others) Hate to nit-pick back (grin), but T&T was created in Scottsdale, Arizona...USA, and it was not created BEFORE D&D, but came out AFTER i JimDickinson 2000-08-29 01:43:04
14 Forgive the newbie again, but... DanielMLaenker 2000-08-28 22:03:38
15 or did the games necessitate their invention? WooDelf 2000-09-05 06:01:00
16 Hate to be the one to be nit-picking, but RPG's had > > developed in Great > > Britian (Tunnels & Trolls, and a couple of others) > > prior to Gary Gygax > > coming up with D&D and starting TSR in Lake Geneva. to T&T, you'll find that the desi Lizard 2000-08-29 16:06:46
17 nit-picking, but RPG's had > developed in Great > Britian (Tunnels & Trolls, and a couple of others) > prior to Gary Gygax > coming up with D&D and starting TSR in Lake Geneva. DanielMLaenker 2000-08-29 15:54:19
18 originally in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (hence the name). SnoWgen 2000-08-29 00:50:03