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(...) As I understand it from some folks I have talked to, there actually was some roleplaying even earlier than Chainmail, it just didn't directly develop into the first commerical role playing game. Of course many wargames are also technically (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Oof! You wound him! Actually, don't get me started on the volumnuous (sp?) merits of Brikwars ... I can extemporaize for hours about this wonderful system, and I still haven't even gotten on Mike's payroll yet. -s (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Oh! You wound me! - Mike. (URL) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Close, Robin... but not close enough. D&D was first developed from Chainmail about 30 years ago. In around 1970 was the first fantasy Chainmail game that started the concept of role-playing in a wargame... and creating some new form of gaming (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hello James, I didn't realize anyone would be that well-versed in the lore of DnD, but that is correct. I think it's a neat way to respect the heritage of the game. As an aside, I'm looking forward to using my Qui-Gon Jinn LEGO mini as a (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) <snip> Holy full circle, batman! D&D was developed *from* a fantasy wargame called Chainmail, something like 20 years ago. James (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hello everyone, I have been an avid pen-n-paper Dungeons and Dragons fan for many years, as well as an AFOL for the past 3 years or so. I always wanted to leverage my LEGO collection into the D&D realm, but with little success. The BrikWars games I (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Is there interest in BrickWars at BrickFest. I know that it was mentioned a few weeks ago (URL) anyone want to speak up in support of a BrickWars Event, possibly all day Friday? Christina www.brickfest.com (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.bloc, lugnet.loc.us.va.ric, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.md)
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(...) Well...if there's another 3052 around for $20 I'd be interested :) [perhaps arriving by pirate-post with the welshishish contingent in June.] Also, I'd be interested in the odd Johny thunder [or however many seem to be around] along with baron (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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(...) What are you after figwise? If you've got x-team perhaps we can arrainge cross-institutional studies... (...) Ahhh. Starship Troopers, B-grade sci-fi on an A-grade budget. As always, never as good as the book (and the book wasn't a prize (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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(...) Six fully armed troopers, plus three Black Guards, plus some equipment. I could probably sling in a bit more, but fully trained troopers are a bit hard to come by (as are matching minifigs :-). (...) Yup, seen it. Didn't mind it actually - had (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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(...) Absolutely ;-) (...) About the only things about Bill and Ted that are Lego are actually the engines, thrusters, and cockpit, all purloined from the Imperial Shuttle. For me, these are among the 'big stuff' :-) Richard Still baldly going... (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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(...) Cool models! Fun + Functional ...They have a heavy duty, reinforced hull look that conveys their purpose well...namely deployment of troops during combat. I like the color scheme too...the standard gray is broken up nicely. How many troops can (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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(...) Hey Richard....all if fine with love and clone bricks when your budget dictates. It's better to have some clone bricks thrown into the mix than no bricks at all, don't you agree? :^) Very nice Saucy Slayer and Bill & Ted drop ships. Although, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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Evening all, Last especially cross piratical space dudes page for a bit now - I have reached the limit of what I expect to be able to transport to Victoria for BrikWars at the June fest :-) There are more shots of the shuttles at (URL) some of the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.space)
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(...) Yea, well he probably thinks you smell funny too... (how often did pirates take baths? :-) :-) :-) (...) Chris and I shared a room last year, and we definitely took at least some advantage of that, though most of it was a postmortem Sunday (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Frank et al.: (...) That time frame seems a bit restrictive. We pirates don't cotton to rules n' regulations! Arrrrr! (Well, okay, we do, but don't tell anyone.) (...) The person next to me in the internet cafe smells funny. Oh, wait, you meant (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) tactical sqaud painted ;) (...) I know, I have 2 of em! Ones on display above my monitor =] (...) I like those models... know who built them? Did you? (Stupid question? Im getting mixed answered? im tired...) I'm also going to try and add a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Im not objecting to it, but I dont have enough castle minifigs to feild an army of enough size- But an alternative would be building an army of undead black and green alien like things... WOOO GO CASTLE BRIKWARS! Seriously though. Is it possible we (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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Hey Pearson!! Wow, it sure has been a while! And hey, of *course* we know who you are, silly. ;-) (...) Awesome! I'm planning on being there myself, I had tons of fun last year, and am expecting to have even more this year. ;-) (...) Huh. Well, I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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(...) Yep rhino it is, if you're thinking of something along the blue model lower-mid picture here (URL) blue and white flying things behind are also W40K inspired, landspeeders. Anyway the APC in the pictures has 4 opening hatches, top mounted gun (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Heylo all! Im sure none of you know who I am since I havent posted on the forums in about 5 months, but hey- that's ok! Well, I'm going to try and get to brickfest this year (It's looking good so far, the 'rents have to break sometime! Who could (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Saturday. I just wanted to get a feel from folks for how they felt about that time frame. Last year we started setup sometime in the morning, and the game itself started sometime around noon or so, and ran until 6 or 7. There was a definite (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.events)
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(...) Good work Zac :-) Nice to have you here. I note that Zac would probably also be up for some BrikWars if there were other proponents north of the border... Richard Still baldly going... (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Hiya Zac.... Kev here from Sydney area.... great to see your post... If you're ever down this way, let us know ...one of our group would prob meet up with you... Hope to see lots of futre posts... Kev...: ) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) G'morning Zac :) "Zac, Zac he's a Lego maniac" haha ok so I have been watching too many American Lego ads :P Welcome to Lugnet, hopefully in the future you will be able to make it to the QLD Lego group/meets called "Bugs" which is held in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) That's the way to do it. (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hi everyone! My name is Zac Soden. I am 16 years old and live on the sunshine coast in Queensland. I have been a Lego maniac all of my life and are a keen collector of Star Wars sets. (URL) - thats my universe (still not fininshed) Well I worked it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Evening all, After worthy feedback from helpful dudes (thanks Tim and Udo), and having seen the Netscape rendition of the Port Block Yards site for the first time (eeeek!), I have washed simpler, lower contrast backgrounds through all three sites, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Studs BrikWars: Wherefore art thou Romeo?
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Evening all, Wwaaaayy back in October, at Studfest V, there was a glorious BrikWars. With the recent help of online lego sales point ozBricks (also gracious webhost), we now bring you: BrikWars: Wherefore art thou Romeo? from: (URL) have hit (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming) !
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OK, how does automatic fire with combined fire work? I made a rough ruling yesterday that you added your automatic fire damage dice together (so if you hit twice with a gyrorifle on automatic fire you did 2D6+6 damage) Steve (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Ah, figured out what was wrong, just had my URLs for the thumbnails screwed up... All fixed, and while I was there, I fixed the links to Richard Parsons's pages (actually they were fixed earlier, I just finally got around to uploading the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Me to please! I've been meaning to post about this for some time. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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Hi! Could anyone provide me with some scans of the Cutter Sails from Port Royal? I've just built six of them for a Pirate Game I ran on Saturday (write-up to follow), but they look a bit... Naked. Thanks. Steve (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Nope, not the 1x4 with towball either. The Weapons Wagon has 3 1x2 plate with rod hooking up, and a cannon. The 1x4 plate with towball is available in a couple recent (non-Pirate) sets: 5978 Sphynx Secret Surprise (4 in brown), 6584 Extreme (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) That's a lot to balance, granted--and upon thinking about it, I agree that it's kind of silly to add cannon. After all, there's no added amount of broadside area, so why more guns? Regarding treasure, it might be easiest just to make merchant (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Query for interest in a new (space) game idea for Brickfest or whatever - Studded Death
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I've been thinking about my growing interest in LEGO Space creations, and what a cool set of game rules Iron Crown's Silent Death is, and how it would be real cool to mix the two. Part of this idea also comes from the mixing of Silent Death rules (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I would be inclined to make the only change be that the number of cannon doesn't jump. The hit points and initial crew for a battle game probably do make sense to have the jump. Of course it's a limited issue in some ways the way I will tend (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Stands to reason. But could not the larger class still be useful, if only for carrying capacity, speed, and hits to destroy? I'd be interested in hearing what the new difference would be, if any. (...) I'm glad you managed to get a bunch of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, I think the Briktorians will reclaim that title...the snipers are back to practicing on flame-thrower Jar-Jars...and you know what that means for poor defenceless medics/engineers :) As to the entire mobilization idea...they're looking (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming)
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