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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:05 pm 
 

Hi,

I am the European 1st-Edition D&D Champion.

I won it at Euro-Gencon the last time the 1st Ed Championship was run, several years ago.

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:08 pm 
 

I've done some stuff.


Those who can, don't. Those who should not, do.

  


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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:36 pm 
 

bombadil wrote:And was arrested for stalking the third time?

Hey, that's a cheap shot! That Restraining Order expired in 2006.

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:01 pm 
 

xraygord wrote:Anybody else with a similar story? Doesn't have to a TSR publication either.


I got my name printed in Polyhedron because I won third prize (and an Honorable Mention) in a monster-design contest.  (They didn't actually publish the monsters, and I don't think I got the prize, either.) That's the closest I've ever come to being a published game author.

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:15 pm 
 

And...

I've cabbage-duelled with Terry Pratchett in public;

I'm in the Colour of Magic movie;

the Missus has her picture in the latest SFX magazine;

Had a couple of mentions in UK role-playing mags.

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:48 pm 
 

No Dice wrote:I remember "Sir Bin-Lanced-a-Lot"!  I too entered and won a Grenadier minis contest in their Bulletin to name one of the minis from the Call of Cthulhu Adventurers set. Guy with walking cane and bowler I believe. "Puttinon D'Ritz" was the best my teenage mind could come up with. But it won.  I selected the boxed set of Demons I think had just come out around that time.


Wow! Small world! I don't remember what I turned in for that character, I think it was a play on his bowler hat, but I remember thinking it was definitely not as cool as "Puttinon D''Ritz"!

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure that was the same prize I went for, too... the Demons set was new at the time, IIRC. I still have a few of those figures, terribly painted with old Testors gloss paint.



  

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:45 pm 
 

Hmmm... I guess my claims to fame are based on three things: the big Gary Gygax interview (damn, I still feel pain inside thinking about Gary's death  :cry: ), being the curator of the big Lucca Comics & Games exhibit celebrating the 30 years of D&D with friend Gianmatteo Tonci and having written and published Mondi Eroici, a book listing and describing alla RPGs printed in Italian (I published the interview to Gary in Italian at last inside my book). Believe me, the exhibit was very well done (ahem  :oops: ), not a series of cardboard stand ups but all original products, INCLUDING first edition and first print AD&D books, the orange B3, the ST1 module, the AD&D record album, the Dungeon Master book by William Dear (well, it was a nice curiosity... no, not the pitchforks again  8O )... Me and Gianmatteo were very, very proud! A pity that the convention management handled somewhat harshly our toys  8O  :!:  :cry:  :evil:  and never offered any refunds - just some half hearthed apologies  :x  Oh, well, it was really AWESOME seeing my name associated with this greatest of games and seeing people's oooohs and aaaahs in front of the showcase.

  


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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:10 pm 
 

I got 8 paintings published in Dave Arneson's new Blackmoor books. I was also hired to paint the cover to the 30th anniversary update to Temple of the Frog. Unfortunately the Art Director was replaced midstream and the new one went with a different cover.
I got a few questions answered by Gary Gygax about the origin of some of the D&D monsters that he hadn't answered anywhere else.
I won a few Wizard Magazine contests.
My daughter's mom was in the movie Teen Wolf Too.
OK, I'm really reaching now.

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Post Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:40 pm 
 

Wow very cool and interesting stuff people!

I have something new to add, I just found out that my current DM that is running my online campaign will be running a homemade adventure at GenCon this year and wants us (current players) to do a test run through it. Also he would like permission to use our characters as NPCs. Well needless to say I was all for it!! :D Its the closest I will have ever been to GenCon. Sigh... I will get there one day.

  
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