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Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
...was the first day of Origins where the orginal Champions RPG was released.

Happy 30th birthday. Champions!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Good call Thundrax ! - Happy Birthday Champions !
    \o/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy Birthday, Champions!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I remeber playing the paper and pencil as a teen. It was what helped me to decide if I wanted to play online :D. Happy Birthday Champions!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Oh wow, had no idea the pen and paper IP is that old. Happy birthday!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    SLAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAMPIONS!! >^)))>{
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Many fond memories playing Champions PnP! May Online grow as well and last just as long.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Thank you for letting us know!

    I started playing in 1983 and haven't stopped! :)

    Happy birthday Champions, and here's to many more!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Thundrax wrote:
    ...was the first day of Origins where the orginal Champions RPG was released.

    Happy 30th birthday. Champions!

    And I was there! Pacific Origins at the Dunfey in San Mateo! Played Champs all weekend and bought my first copy before I left.

    Thanks for this Thundrax and Happy Birthday Champions!

    :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Rhyatt wrote:
    And I was there! Pacific Origins at the Dunfey in San Mateo! Played Champs all weekend and bought my first copy before I left.

    Thanks for this Thundrax and Happy Birthday Champions!

    :)

    You beat me by a few days. I got my copy from a friend at the Comic Shop in Vancouver. He'd just gotten back from Origins and was raving about this new superhero game. I picked up the only other copy he brought in and played it with my friend Steve Sloane (who did much of the development work on Necrull in Champions of the North) and fell in love with it prety much instantly. I typed a short, clumsily written review for DRAGON that was my second professional sale.

    Good times.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy Birthday Champions!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I was first introduced to the P&P by a good friend in '87 so I guess I'm a late bloomer compared to many of you here. :D


    Happy Birthday, Champions! Thank you for the many years of entertainment you've given me. Here's to the many years to come! *raises a glass*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I started reading through some of the more recent IP stuff. Kind of faskinated over how well designed some of it actually is, and how logical some of the progressions are.

    Here's to 30 more, mates. Cheers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    i just recently started playing the PnP

    my dad introduced me to it on my 18th b-day just like he was when he started lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I was there. First demo game run that day.

    Happy birthday, Champions!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy Birthday, Champions P&P!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy Birthday Champions! Champions it's your Birthday! Happy Birthday Champions! Champions it's your Birthday! :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy birthday, Champions. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy birthday
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    I remember going to Ryder's Hobbies and seeing Enemies on the shelf.

    I didn't play Champions, but I figured I would use the characters as models to make characters for another game.

    I was so enthralled by the stat blocks that I just had to know what was going on there, and at the next opportunity I went back to Ryder's and bought the 1st edition.

    Still have it, along with many other Champions books from various editions and a handful of the old Adventurer's Clubs, today.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy B-day Champions may you have many, many more:)!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy Beerday --> Happy Birthday :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Happy Birthday, Champions.

    I never really played the game, but CO turned out well, so it's for the better, innit?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Reading Scott's and Scott's reminiscences makes me feel almost like a young whippersnapper. ;) I started playing in 1982 when someone first got a copy of the rulebook here in my hometown of Greensboro, NC. I still fondly remember those early games... and many, many more over the past three decades.

    Here's hoping for three more awesome decades!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Got my light-blue box for Christmas '81... I was 10, in Swarthmore PA. My parents were the best. Spent my first night trying to figure out the powers of the guy on the cover (with the helmet). Then later got the Enemies book and realized I was totally wrong... he was a TOTAL badass.

    I'm fairly sure that I became as good at math, as I was, because of that game.

    p.s.: I still have all 6 of the D6's that came with that box set... dots are a bit faded though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Just needed to pop in and extend my own "Happy Birthday" to Champions. After my first exposure to D&D in about 1982 or so, I became an RPG addict. Though I rarely found friends willing to play for any serious amount of time, I collect nearly all of the PnP games I could find. To this day, Champions was one of the most memorable of those early discoveries. I already loved comics, but this point-based, open system where you could design your own hero....AMAZING! The tactical combat. Knockback! You could literally build any hero you wanted! Speedster. Galactic police officer. Armored industrialist. Savvy crimefighter.

    Man...great times, and a great game. Thanks to all those that created it and continue to give it life....THRITY YEARS LATER!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Rhyatt wrote:
    And I was there!
    Pacific Origins at the Dunfey in San Mateo!
    Played Champs all weekend and bought my first copy before I left...
    So was i! :eek:
    (God we're old...) :(
    Thundrax wrote:
    ...I typed a short, clumsily written review for DRAGON that was my second professional sale...
    Holy crap, i remember reading that! :eek:


    Happy 30th Anniversary Champions...
    ...May i still be playing CO on your 50th! :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    So was i! :eek:
    (God we're old...) :(

    Wow! If you played in any of the Champs demo games run by Glenn Thain or Stacy Laurence (at the end of the hallway opposite the dealer's room) I may have actually gamed with you! I virtually lived there once I stumbled across it...

    And yes, yes we are... but only physically... And you know what? 30 more years from now I expect both of us to be giving the exact same response... ;)

    Holy crap, i remember reading that!

    I'm sure I read it too. I hungrily sought out any Champs review I could. I loved it so much I REALLY wanted it to be a hit. I'm sure I still have that issue, along with the Space Gamer and Different Worlds review issues as well (both doubly awesome because they published Champs scenarios in future issues; White Dwarf had some great stuff too). Scott, in my mind that gives you a premium slot in Champions history. A precursor to the awesome Hero Games work you did...

    Happy 30th Anniversary Champions...
    ...May i still be playing CO on your 50th!

    As do I, my friend; as do I...

    :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Rhyatt wrote:
    Wow! If you played in any of the Champs demo games run by Glenn Thain or Stacy Laurence (at the end of the hallway opposite the dealer's room) I may have actually gamed with you!

    I remember being in a game with Glenn that weekend. So, who knows? Pretty cool, eh? Frankly, what does it say that a bunch of us who stumbled into this little RPG at a hotel 30 years ago are still here enjoying the descendants of that original IP online today? Nifty, eh?

    Here's to another exciting 30 years. Who knows? Maybe we'll meet up with each other in some kind of virtual 3D holographic chamber being projected into our living rooms by then. Of course, by then, we'll also be so old and creaky that we can't get off the couch to work the interfaced motion controls of the future. Ha ha ha!
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