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July 05, 2005

Give Our Troops The Gift Of Second-Hand Dorkiness

I don't even want to admit how I ran into this link, but this cat at wants to send our troops RPG's, dice, maybe even some DM Screens and "modules."

You know you've got some crap games you never play. Or some stuff you've already played and don't play anymore. Hey, why not send it to our troops?

If I had a "Magic d20" -- the one that always comes up 20 when you most need it -- I'd send it along. Our boys need it more than my friend Stinky does.

Also needed: Doritos, Mountain Dew, t-shirts reading "Rules-Lawyers Do It By The Book" and bumper-stickers that say "My Other Car is +4 Paladin's Warhorse."

And please, VonKreedon, don't send that homebrew GURPS game of yours which de-emphasizes combat in favor of "communication" and "peaceful interaction" and where your main stats are Empath, Commitment to Social Progressive Justice, Really Listening To What You're Saying, I Feel You, Man, I Went To Brown University When People Still Gave a Shit, and General Pussy-Crap.

That's not the sort of RPG our boys need. THey need games where they get to kick the shit out of bugbears without Al Jazeera and Newsweek getting all up their noses about "profaning" the name of Grr'gluchstach, Bugbear God of War and Oversized Hammers With Big Spikey Bits.


posted by Ace at 01:52 PM
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Send them your pok*r winnings from last night, ace.

Posted by: on July 5, 2005 02:09 PM

Sorry, but when you put "Troops" and "RPG's" in the same sentence, the first thing that comes to my mind is not "Role Playing Games".... This took me a minute to figure out.

In all seriousness, if a servicemember has the time to play a game while deployed, it's going to be Xbox or PS2. Role playing games would be a definate "No go".

Posted by: US Soldier on July 5, 2005 02:22 PM

Really? Heck, half the people I used to game with. . . er, half the people my close, but dorky and socially untouchable *friend* used to game with, were veterans. Not sure how many played while deployed, but role-players used to be divided between white-collar types who played in college and blue-collar types who played in the Army.

Would lead to some fun though.

"INCOMING!!"
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Posted by: SparcVark on July 5, 2005 03:35 PM

Hey, thanks for linking to us. I'm pretty sure most of the games donating will be butt-kickers or strategy games, in any case. Any yeah, if you've got a "Die Orc" bumper sticker, send it in. It'll look good on the Hummer. I don't think we can ship the Mountain Dew, though.

If folks have a friend or loved one who's deployed and would like to be added to our care package list, or would like more information before donating, they can email me at zacharythefirst@hotmail.com.

Thanks for the support, and for helping us give our guys and gals a way to blow off some steam.

Posted by: RPG Blog on July 5, 2005 03:42 PM

And if I could, sure PS2 and Xbox are both played a lot in the desert, but I know during my deployment, we played the heck out of 3 different pen-and-paper RPGs every chance we got. We've had over 3 dozen requests for our gamer care packages so far, so there must be some sort of demand out there. Yeah, we're troops, but that doesn't mean we can'tstill be proud of our geekery.

Posted by: RPG Blog on July 5, 2005 03:45 PM

Feh. If you chickengeeks think recovering Grabthor's hammer from the Kraken is so important, how come I don't see any of you getting into chain mail and setting out for the 22nd level yourselves?

Posted by: Paul Zrimsek on July 5, 2005 04:01 PM

Ooh, I rolled a natural 18 for my General Pussy-Crap stat.

Posted by: Beck on July 6, 2005 07:03 AM
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