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Mazes and Monsters is quite the trip down memory lane. I vividly remember being told that my interest in Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Warhammer and the Warlock

Mazes and Monsters is quite the trip down memory lane. I vividly remember being told that my interest in Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Warhammer and the Warlock and White Dwarf magazines was a gateway to the occult, by my form tutor/RE teacher. Mind you the precise issue of Warlock that provoked that outburst was this one: http://www.fightingfantasycollector.co.uk/Warlock_13.jpg http://www.fightingfantasycollector.co.uk/Warlock_13.jpg Which on reflection is pretty striking. Can't remember if this one or another issue is the one that contained quite a neat, viable Fighting Fantasy tabletop ruleset. Wish I still had these; they were so very British. Edit: it was the issue before, in fact: https://www.fightingfantasycollector.co.uk/Warlock_12.jpg https://www.fightingfantasycollector.co.uk/Warlock_12.jpg

at-fates-hands 5y ago
> Mazes and Monsters is quite the trip down memory lane. Ironic that when I was heavy into D&D and drawing the monsters I was seeing in the handbooks, guides and Dragon magazines, my parents didn't care at all - it was just me and my cousins and friends being sociable and using our imaginations. Then we heard about Mazes and Monsters and we all huddled up to watch it and it wasn't at all what we thought it would be. My parents were like, "No more Dungeons and Dragons for you young man!" Thinking I would go crazy like Tom Hanks character did. After some intervening from other friends parents who got them to relax and just let us enjoy the time using our imaginations, they relented. It was a pretty traumatic time to have to hand over my Dungeon Master Guide to my parents, feeling like my whole life was over at 10. Only to have them give it back to me and seeing me jump around like I just won the lottery must have been pretty funny to them. To be young again. . .

at-fates-hands 5y ago

> Mazes and Monsters is quite the trip down memory lane. Ironic that when I was heavy into D&D and drawing the monsters I was seeing in the handbooks, guides and Dragon magazines, my parents didn't care at all - it was just me and my cousins and friends being sociable and using our imaginations. Then we heard about Mazes and Monsters and we all huddled up to watch it and it wasn't at all what we thought it would be. My parents were like, "No more Dungeons and Dragons for you young man!" Thinking I would go crazy like Tom Hanks character did. After some intervening from other friends parents who got them to relax and just let us enjoy the time using our imaginations, they relented. It was a pretty traumatic time to have to hand over my Dungeon Master Guide to my parents, feeling like my whole life was over at 10. Only to have them give it back to me and seeing me jump around like I just won the lottery must have been pretty funny to them. To be young again. . .