Instead we had Supremacy, Conquests of the Empire, Axis and Allies, Space Hulk, Blood Bowl, Fortress America, Battletech….man…how many hours of just poring over mech schematics trying to eek out that last bit of tonnage while trying to manage the heat syncs… and of course my Atari 800XL and SSI wargames like “Reforger”, “The Cosmic Balance”, “Colonial Conquest”, “Alternate Reality”, “StarFleet One”. Then my family moved and I left NYMA to go to Vernon Hills, and D&D was never the same. We actually had funerals for our characters (hey, it was military school and we were bored nerds). I don’t think we ever ‘solved’ that module. Most of our party didn’t make it out of there and I remember that one of the lowest level guys was the sole survivor. Man, we played through all the Slaver modules, the Giants, “White Plume Mountain” where my buddy got BlackRazor the soul-sucking sword that was a rip-off of Stormbringer, all the way through “Vault of the Drow” when Lolth killed my character Findel Half-Elven. The module I really remember because it was such a blast was “The Ghost Tower of Inverness”. I even remember playing “Tomb of Horrors” at New York Military Academy with my D&D group. Which are probably in a trunk somewhere in the basement (still my favorite hangout). I still remember saving all my programs on a cassette tape. But I had gone to a Radio Shack computer camp and they had TRS-80 model IIIs at NYMA, so we went with that. I remember programming my own INFOCOM rip-off text adventures in Basic and in a programming language called “Logo” (?) to draw things. I actually had “Dungeons of Daggorath” on my TRS-80 Color Computer (with a whopping 16K of memory), which was the 1st computer my parent’s got for me. But today, I ran into a passage in the book that made me stop and reflect on things I hadn’t thought about in nearly 30 years.
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Normally, I wait until I’ve finished a book to recommend it.