If we all post something, it will be less lonely.
What's making me happy today? I got a copy of the first RPG that I ever played - Tunnels & Trolls. Reading through it has provoked a powerful attack of happy nostalgia.
There I was in 1982, 10 years old, and one of my school friends told me all about this new game she had that was like a board game but without a board and that you "just make stuff up". It sounded... weird.
So I made up Harald the Rogue. He had a kukri, a floppy hat, a Take That You Fiend! spell and a taste for adventure. Sadly, he was killed and eaten by an orc after about 20 minutes. So poor old Harald never exactly became a living legend and he never had the time to acquire much of a personality. It was a nice hat, though, and I'm sure the orc was thrilled with it.
But the game was exciting enough for me to save up my pocket money for weeks so I could get my own copy of T&T. And Elaine told me that next time we'd get to fight skeletons just like in 'Jason & The Argonauts'. I was hooked!
My mum and dad weren't too happy when I pinched the dice from all the board games in the house, mind you. But that was a small price to pay, I think.
