I hold Doug entirely responsible for all of this! And halfway through I have the sudden urge to prefix the rest with a blanket statement. I have never<\/b> LARPed!<\/p>\n
I bought some B5 CCG cards on ebay the other day, by some I mean I bought two boxes worth. For almost nothing really, certainly compared to the prices I use to pay for them. They arrived yesterday. So last night I spent about 20 minutes ripping through packages looking for good cards and having bits and pieces of the game come back to me.<\/p>\n
I realised that I miss it quite a bit. I use to spend a whole lot of time playing CCG’s. Mainly media tie in stuff, B5, Star Trek, Star Wars, Tomb Raider all spring to mind, Lord of the Rings for a while, I have a couple of nice decks there and of course the odd game of Magic. It should be noted that I do not and have not ever own any magic cards. I did go along to various gaming events I spent some time a lot of Irish events in the mid to late nineties, Gaelcon being the big Dublin one, and an odd weekend down in Cork at a bigger event that I can’t for the life of me remember. Played at a few cons over in the UK aswell but nothing really major there, it was more a case of meeting someone I knew who played and dragging a game together.<\/p>\n
Pre CCG, I use to play Heroquest and Space Crusade. These naturally lead into 40K and I still have a very basic Space Marine army back in Dublin. A friend and I created our own game using the Star Trek micro machines. We spent a long long time writing out some rules and created at least a 6 foot by 6 foot playing board. I remember we once played it on the roof of a decent enough sized kitchen and it took a whole lot of space.<\/p>\n
Never really got into D&D, I did play a few paper based RPG, I don’t remember what they were. That was in my early teens I guess, there was a group of around 6 of us that use to play but the group disintegrated\/grew apart as they tend to do at that age.<\/p>\n
I did bring most of my cards when I moved to London, aside from them being valuable (at the time unfortunately), I wanted to have them to try and find a group that I could go along and play with. I never really did. I went to a LOTR tournament once but after signing up for everything and never hearing back from the organisers, I gave up. Not being the best with new groups of people I don’t know and not liking walking in blindly, I really didn’t feel like doing it again. I’m sure I still have decks made up and unsorted cards for a few things.<\/p>\n
Sometime soon I’m going to sit down and organise all my B5 cards. I’m not sure when but sometime when I can have some space and time to work. That pretty much means when the mood strikes, but unlike the rest of the things I want to sort out (books, dvds, cds) I don’t need new furniture to do it and it will no doubt clear me up some space. I had pretty much a complete set until later expansions, I have several unsorted boxes of said expansions that will be fun to go through some rainy bored afternoon.<\/p>\n
That’s one thing I dislike about online gaming. There is always something to do, I rarely have a boring Saturday afternoon. I just have to log on to Eve or CoH and I have something to do. It’s not a bad thing really but it does leave everything that’s waiting for a little time waiting that little longer.<\/p>\n
Anyway someday maybe I’ll look into some gaming in London, more than likely I’ll end up ebaying more B5 cards and pining for the good old days \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Oh and the reason it’s all Doug’s fault? Well he use to play B5 CCG too and it came up in conversation and I dug at my cards at the first Halo night a few weeks ago. Looks like a second Halo night this coming weekend in honour of Halo 2 out at all good stores Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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