Back around this timeframe, several of my friends and I worked for a game company called Flying Buffalo. They did play-by-mail computer-moderated games, where you would have a printout of all your units or whatever, everything you could see or spy, you'd fill in a turn sheet and mail it in, we'd collect all of them and enter them into a computer, all the turns would process simultaneously, and produce new printouts.
We also published Tunnels & Trolls, a role-playing game along the lines of Dungeons & Dragons, but much simpler to play. You only needed one rulebook to play T&T as opposed to who knows how many dozen for D&D. They also pioneered the concept of the Solo Dungeon where you could run your character through an adventure by yourself, just you, your character sheet, the solo book, and a handful of dice.
So basically, eventually most of us left Buffalo. At a science fiction convention a few years later, we had a big party and the resident artist made a badge that said Ex-Buffalos. And the rest, as they say, is history. I still have my badge somewhere, perhaps I'll scan it some day.
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Date: 2006-05-02 06:45 am (UTC)We also published Tunnels & Trolls, a role-playing game along the lines of Dungeons & Dragons, but much simpler to play. You only needed one rulebook to play T&T as opposed to who knows how many dozen for D&D. They also pioneered the concept of the Solo Dungeon where you could run your character through an adventure by yourself, just you, your character sheet, the solo book, and a handful of dice.
So basically, eventually most of us left Buffalo. At a science fiction convention a few years later, we had a big party and the resident artist made a badge that said Ex-Buffalos. And the rest, as they say, is history. I still have my badge somewhere, perhaps I'll scan it some day.