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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9176634" data-attributes="member: 6684958"><p>It was a bizarre time.</p><p></p><p>Like making player hand outs, maps or blank character sheets in the schools Ditto Machine. And by High School the Country Library had gotten one of those new fangeled Facsimile Machines that could make 'Copies' of papers too. It was not for public use. You had to go into the Library's back office....but that did not matter in this bizarre time. You would simply walk back into the back office, make a couple 'copies' and leave. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The whole convention thing was big in the Old Days. From when I first rolled a d20 to fight Bargle, all of the older, "Cool Kids" were going to conventions. Buy the time I was a teen, there were many more around. Lots of little Star Trek ones popped up after TNG came out with names like "StarBase Bridgetown" or "USS Homervile". And they played plenty of RPGs at even "Star Trek" cons. And the D&D ones were just like DragonCon or DungeonCon (such amazing creative names).</p><p></p><p>And as a teen we would save up money to go to some conventions. We would get there...of course.....by hitchhiking. Just putting out our thumbs and hopping into the first car or truck going in the general direction we wanted to go. It...was....well.....bizarrely...a "safe" way for teens to travel around. Though often your mom would ask you to make a collect call(Back in the Time Before Time, phone calls of more then a couple miles were "Long Distance" and cost a lot, like $1 a minute sometimes, so a collect call was a call charged to your (parents) home phone) home when you made it to the motel you were staying at for the weekend. She just wanted to make sure you were safe after you hitchhiked a bunch of rides from strangers....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9176634, member: 6684958"] It was a bizarre time. Like making player hand outs, maps or blank character sheets in the schools Ditto Machine. And by High School the Country Library had gotten one of those new fangeled Facsimile Machines that could make 'Copies' of papers too. It was not for public use. You had to go into the Library's back office....but that did not matter in this bizarre time. You would simply walk back into the back office, make a couple 'copies' and leave. The whole convention thing was big in the Old Days. From when I first rolled a d20 to fight Bargle, all of the older, "Cool Kids" were going to conventions. Buy the time I was a teen, there were many more around. Lots of little Star Trek ones popped up after TNG came out with names like "StarBase Bridgetown" or "USS Homervile". And they played plenty of RPGs at even "Star Trek" cons. And the D&D ones were just like DragonCon or DungeonCon (such amazing creative names). And as a teen we would save up money to go to some conventions. We would get there...of course.....by hitchhiking. Just putting out our thumbs and hopping into the first car or truck going in the general direction we wanted to go. It...was....well.....bizarrely...a "safe" way for teens to travel around. Though often your mom would ask you to make a collect call(Back in the Time Before Time, phone calls of more then a couple miles were "Long Distance" and cost a lot, like $1 a minute sometimes, so a collect call was a call charged to your (parents) home phone) home when you made it to the motel you were staying at for the weekend. She just wanted to make sure you were safe after you hitchhiked a bunch of rides from strangers.... [/QUOTE]
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