What’s Happening?
Friday: Conspiracy Draft @ 5pm; FNM Theros Block Draft @ 7pm; Conspiracy Draft @ 8pm.
Saturday: Free RPG Day all day with box openings at 11am, 3pm & 7pm; Magic Homeroom @ 2pm; Pathfinder Society @ 6pm; Magic Pauper Tournament @ 6:30pm. Conspiracy Drafts at 2pm & 7pm and throughout the day.
And Sunday, this Sunday, the 22nd of June, marks the anniversary of a pivotal event in gaming history, an event so monumental that we had to celebrate it by devoting an entire day to classic RPGs. What happened on that day, long ago in 1993?
It was the release day of , the DOS-based video game!
OK, ok. We may be going a little overboard here. The game wasn’t spectacular and neither Nick or I can say that we played it or that it changed our lives. But it does have a connection to the beginning of pen-and-paper roleplaying game history, and that is what we want to celebrate on Sunday.
Betrayal At Krondor is based on the series of novels written by Raymond E. Feist, set in the world of Midkemia. Well, the books are based on a D&D game that Feist played in the late 1970s while he worked for … wait for it … Midkemia Press.
Midkemia Press publisehd some truely wonderful and ground-breaking products, books that are still on my shelf and that I still use while gaming. Cities (1979) talked about designing and creating cities in fantasy campaigns. Carse (1980) was a fully-detailed fantasy city, based on Caernarfon in Wales with a beautiful map. Tulan of the Isles (1981) is a fantasy village and the surrounding countryside, with a sinister plot weaving through the place descriptions.
And so, in honor of all this history, we’re devoting Sunday, June 22nd to Old School RPGs. We’ve got our buddy Rich running a 2e D&D game at 2pm, for old hands and for newcomers to the game. All of our new and used Old School RPGs will be 10% off the marked price and we’ll break out some other older games. Anyone up for Dungeon?
