 I just realized something. |
 Feb 24 2004, 05:32 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,311 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 2,062  |
SR was written in '89, iirc, which would mean the known universe winked into existance in 2049. It's 2064 now. 15 years. SR has been around *fifteen years*. It won't be long when runners can say, "I've been running 20 years" or "I was dodging lead when you were learning your ABC's" and mean it. So, maybe I'm strange, but that kinda blows me away when I think about it. |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:39 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,156 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Fresno, CalFree Member No.: 4,252 |
I guess that is funny. You could have characters who are like "I'm a runner! Like my father, and his father before him!"
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Feb 24 2004, 05:41 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Right! TIme for the paternity suits to come do.
"Hey, Dad. Fuck you! Take me on a Shadowrun, now! Or I'll rebel and join the corps!" "Hey! WHo bought you all your diapers, tampons and SINs, huh? I want you to be a nice girl that fences weapons for a living, not a smuggler and part-time wetwork specialist like me!" |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:42 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,311 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 2,062 |
Dude, when this whole thing started, I wasn't even in kindergarden. I may be betraying my age, but HOLY CRAP. 19, btw, in case you were wondering my age. (Yes, I'm young, but shh, I am the future of Shadowrun. Scary thought, eh?) |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:48 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Very well. Call your father and tell him I'll GM his Shadowrun game while you kids are off playing with your fancy-ass 'mechs. Ghost, I feel old...ancient, e'en.
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Feb 24 2004, 05:49 AM
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Senior GM Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,406 Joined: 12-April 03 From: Redmond, WA Member No.: 4,442 |
I guess some of you youngsters are too young to remember when the Reactive Trigger was added to the game. It allowed shooting TWO bullets when you could act, instead of the standard one.
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Feb 24 2004, 05:51 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Firepower Ammo. Yeah.
The fact SR has a future makes all the pain of your existence worth while. To me anyway. |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:52 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Ahhh, Firepower Ammo and Boosted reflexes.
My samurai never looked back. Which is probably what killed him. -Siege |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:55 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,311 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 2,062 |
My father doesn't play. Until I was kicked out at 16, I had to rely on pirated internet copies (shh... I've made up for it since) because my parents thought RPGs were the devil. And frankly, I think that some of us young'ns have the original idea preserved even better than some of the fogies. It's not about the anime SURGE cat-girls (Hi, Barbie) and world-changing loci. It's about trying to scrape out a living in the shadows of the corps in a world gone wrong. |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:55 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 18-March 02 Member No.: 2,411 |
Ah, cyberware. Back when I first started. I remember the twice installed skillsoft plus system...four level 6 skillsofts at once. Man...he was the greatest character ever...untill he dropped his wallet of skillsofts down the sewers...
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Feb 24 2004, 06:03 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
I've just realised I could say that I've been Running half my life. Wow. I feel old.
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Feb 24 2004, 06:26 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Er... I'm 18 for about another 24 hours, and I may be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure I was in kindergarten in '89... ~J |
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Feb 24 2004, 08:42 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
I got into Shadowrun fairly late... mid-'90s.
I suspect I've been playing Battletech longer than some of you have been alive, though. I know I've been playing D&D longer than some of you have been alive... |
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Feb 24 2004, 09:19 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,965 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 2,032 |
I'm 21 and two thirds and I've been playing SR since my School's gaming group got their first copy of SR3... Would that be around '98-'99? That's a nice 4-5 years... About 1/3rd of SR's Lifetime. I can see 4th edition any time now....
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Feb 24 2004, 10:10 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 562 |
Geez, I know that feeling. This year marks 21 years of playing rpgs for me. God ... I'm so old :( This reminds me of my "How long Have You Played?" thread from the original Dumpshock forums |
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Feb 24 2004, 11:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 15-September 03 From: Worcester, MA Member No.: 5,621 |
What does it mean that I've been somehow involved in rpgs for 22 years, and I'm 22 years old? Raise your hand if you remember Chainmail.
Seriously, though, I picked up the habit from my father and never looked back. I learned the GM ropes from him, and now he's one of my players. Turn and turn about, neh? |
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Feb 24 2004, 12:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 19-March 03 Member No.: 4,292 |
Hmm, i play RPGs since 1994, just ten years or 5/13 of my lifetime. But what a good time...
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Feb 24 2004, 02:12 PM
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Not Cameron Diaz Group: Retired Admins Posts: 472 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Newark, Delaware Member No.: 188 |
You're probably misremembering, unless you went to kindergarten at 3. I was in my senior year of high school, then. I didn't play until the year after that, when I was in college. And some of us "fogies" didn't come up with SURGE. |
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Feb 24 2004, 02:30 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
And a Happy 20th to you. -Siege |
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Feb 24 2004, 02:51 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 1-April 03 From: DFW, Texas Member No.: 4,362 |
I still have fond memories of the 'Turn to Goo' spell, but then again, who of the original SR I players doesn't? :D
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Feb 24 2004, 03:31 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
*puts on a party hat* Woo...
Lets see... I started in '98 (a bit before the 3rd release) so thats just under 1/4 of my lifespan. |
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Feb 24 2004, 03:37 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499 |
Well i started about 94 -95 so on/ off about 9 years for me. I know i started before awakening and Virtual realties i think....
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Feb 24 2004, 03:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 320 Joined: 13-August 02 From: Austin, Republic of Texas (not CAS) Member No.: 3,094 |
first played SR in 93 - First edition, then 2nd and now 3rd.. but I had been playing rpgs since 86... so I have been playing SR for 11/26 and games in general for 9/13ths of my life.
yes I started gaming when I was 8. (with my mom of all people) -Mike R. |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:52 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Counting back... -13 for grade school+college, that gets us to '91... ok, so it was probably the year before kindergarten. Ah well. Still about five or six years before I first played Shadowrun, and two or three before I started D&D. Still indebted to my uncle for introducing me to it.
Thanks, but I'm not skipping a year :) 19 in 11 hours, 18 minutes. ~J |
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Feb 24 2004, 05:58 PM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
Started gaming at 10. DMing right off the bat for my 7-year old brother with the old red. So I've been gaming for 64% of my life. Shadowrun somewhat less, only for the last 12 years, or 43%.
mmm...turn to goo... |
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