Weekender XLBS: What Are Your Favourite Gaming Moments?
August 12, 2018 by dracs
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happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!!
Happy Sunday !
Happy Sunday!!! Hope you guys had a great time in the US.
Happy Sunday – Awesome to see the US team and studio in action. 🙂
And great to see some Hex and Counters
Favourite Gaming Moment. Goes back to 1980 having read the JRR Tolkien books and wanting to get immersed in that world I discovered DnD. But being 7 and my peers not being too interested I read as much as I could and it wasn’t till I went to boarding school 4 years later that I found others that wanted to play. My dwarf character ‘Odin Bloodaxe’ survived till left school in 89. Great evenings spent adventuring and learning to cooperate with others. At the same time I discovered miniatures could be used to represent you characters and I recall many… Read more »
That’s awesome 🙂 Thanks for sharing your golden moments – it’s always nice to hear what people think of as those key moments in their life.
Oh your first dwarf died too. My one drown i a river. He didn’t like to get rid of his heavy armour and no one said to me, this could happen.
Happy Sunday! Great episode – some really heartwarming stories there!
Indeed! Sometimes it’s nice to be able to dive into old stories and remind ourselves why we love the hobby the way we do 🙂
Some things you cannot un-see, not HP Lovecraft…but the backstage front image…!!!
Sam practised long and hard to get into that position haha
@brennon I stopped reading your comment after the third, fourth and fifth word….
Haha!
I feel like it’s been too long since we’ve had Baby Az levels of mental scarring.
… I will never laugh at baby Az again.
Happy sunday.
My best moment is leaving the missus to check out the hasslefree miniatures stand at salute and returning to where i left her; to see her SO chuffed holding 2 dust tactics starter sets,one german and one SSU.
Happy Sunday 🙂
Great to see the guys and Gianna on the show 🙂
I feel really privileged to say I’m probably in the best period of my gaming life now. As well as running a local gaming club, I have a couple of great friends who are keen to try new things and we have a routine of playing a new game or system every Thursday night for a month. This motivates me to collect and paint great new miniatures and experience new games just enough to really feel I’ve got something from the game.
How fortunate for you to recognize and revel in the moment as well.
That is really awesome 🙂 I’m glad that you’ve been able to find that key moment and draw on it 🙂
Happy XLBS folk’s I would say the90s was the best time for me to hyper when I was younger jump from game to game like a demented Bee no the best was the 90s even though work physically my head was at home thinking that attack failed try this or attack that or I’ll get them figure’s painted to have more options in the game plus just having fun gaming winning or losing bickering over rules yeah fun time’s Guy’s.
I have two favourite gaming periods, the first, when I was introduced to table top way back in 83, playing D&D, early Warhammer Fantasy, which led to games such Car Wars and Blood Bowl. It was a period when everything was new and exciting. I use to love jumping on the bus to Exeter, which was an hour journey, to visit the nearest gaming stores, and the nearest GW store. I use love looking through all the new games in the independent store, visting GW was a chance to look at the store armies. My next period was a few… Read more »
Happy sunday folks!
Favourite gaming moments… that’s a lot of time to think about! 🙂
I like to play big games, so probably the first time moving from a standard 40k game to playing an Apocalypse game – that step up in scale and seeing the larger battlefield with your army sat in amongst it.
And then the moment you discover there is gaming life outside of a GW universe
Happy Sunday…
@dracs is it me is or was the film clip wrong…I thought it should have been the Blues Brothers not MIB?
I thought the editors might be taking the piss.
I thought the same
Happy Sunday!
Thanks for a great XLBS 🙂 Is it weird, if my favorite gaming period is probably now…this past year and a half, maybe past two years? A chance meeting in a gaming store, had me meeting up with my old d&d gamemaster 26 years ago. And we managed to get the old group together again. Its so much fun, after all these years, experiencing how easy we slip back into our old dynamics. Who’s gonna take charge of the group, who’s gonna be the natural healer or support character. And how all the old ‘memories’ from past games, are still… Read more »
Ok so my favourite time gaming, well like many I was part of a role playing group growing up, we played all sorts from DnD to TMNT. That was fun. Then there was the guys i shared a house with in Uni we got into the hex based games, and now I am part regular gaming group it’s lots of good fun.
Everyone’s favourite moments seem to have something in common – regular games with a core group of friends or family.
As you get older, get married, move away from your childhood friends, etc, it can get harder to obtain that, and a lot of the time you’re getting games when and where you can, and not necessarily with people with whom you share as close a bond as you did with the childhood friends or family you used to game with.
So it’s probably really less about the games, and more about the people.
Face of Ben: Role playing? Intimate stuff? are you talking about…Nuns and Novice?
Great to meet you at Gencon!!
My early gaming was late 1960s Avalon Hill board games, playing with my brothers and friends. In middle school there was a D&D club, but miniatures were not a part of that scene; we kept note books recording our experiences and the game was more a verbal narrative and tracking movement on grid paper. Then somewhere around 1970 I bought a second hand copy of John Featherstone’s “Battles with Model Soldiers” which was my introduction to all aspects of collecting (Airfix), painting and miniature gaming. Great show, looking forward to next Sunday!
The best time for me would have been the 90’s early 2000’s. We were just getting to the end of our 12 year Battletech campaign.we were playing other RPG’s and plenty of wargaming. Apart from the usual games we organised big 2 day 30 player games which were great fun. I doubt we will ever do it again with people getting older,moving away etc. Fun times though
Another fun episode with some thought provoking conversations and comments. Thanks! I am old enough that my gaming memories also go back to the days of Tactics2 and other chit games as well as first edition Dungeons and Dragons. I had a group of game crazy friends when I was very young that helped set me on course in this wonderful hobby of ours. Bi-weekly nights of campaigns in high school and having a college room mate who painted and played miniatures games certainly were among those but I think the most “Golden” memory for me happened later as an… Read more »