GamerDude
Cosmic Mongoose
I know most folks might not be interested but this is important to me.
Feb 16th I flew from Spokane WA to LA for Strategicon (trip was birthday present from my wife). Ran Friday through Monday.
At about 8:45pm on Saturday, less than an hour into my late-night session I got a call from my wife. This is the kind of call I've only ever received once before, it started with "Honey what are you doing? you ok? can you sit down I have something to tell you"
The first time my very best friend and co-worker had just been found having killed himself.
This time it was my dad had died just a few hours ago.
Flights were a mess, me getting back to Spokane 11pm Tuesday night to change clothes in my suitcase, shower, be back on a flight taking off at 6am for 10+ hrs of time travelling to make a Thursday funeral.
Why does this matter here? Because my dad was a big player of Traveller. My brother (13 at the time) introduced him to it back about 1984/85 and he was hooked. He'd play D&D and other games over the years but his love was Traveller, classic and Megatraveller mostly.
My dad had to give up gaming in 2005 due to his hands not being able to handle dice anymore (even the big ones-which made lots of noise hitting the table) and he gave me all his gaming stuff - a ton of CT/MT original books and his bag of dice.
I let my brother who took care of everything be served my dad's military flag, I have his dice.
My other relatives only have some memories, I have his dice. What more can a gaming father pass on to his son?
When I go back down in the fall with my wife to visit his grave - I'll be burying his big d20 with him - privately just him and I kind of playing one last game and I know what is first words to St. Peter probably were "So, where does a guy get into a good game of Traveller around here?
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Feb 16th I flew from Spokane WA to LA for Strategicon (trip was birthday present from my wife). Ran Friday through Monday.
At about 8:45pm on Saturday, less than an hour into my late-night session I got a call from my wife. This is the kind of call I've only ever received once before, it started with "Honey what are you doing? you ok? can you sit down I have something to tell you"
The first time my very best friend and co-worker had just been found having killed himself.
This time it was my dad had died just a few hours ago.
Flights were a mess, me getting back to Spokane 11pm Tuesday night to change clothes in my suitcase, shower, be back on a flight taking off at 6am for 10+ hrs of time travelling to make a Thursday funeral.
Why does this matter here? Because my dad was a big player of Traveller. My brother (13 at the time) introduced him to it back about 1984/85 and he was hooked. He'd play D&D and other games over the years but his love was Traveller, classic and Megatraveller mostly.
My dad had to give up gaming in 2005 due to his hands not being able to handle dice anymore (even the big ones-which made lots of noise hitting the table) and he gave me all his gaming stuff - a ton of CT/MT original books and his bag of dice.
I let my brother who took care of everything be served my dad's military flag, I have his dice.
My other relatives only have some memories, I have his dice. What more can a gaming father pass on to his son?
When I go back down in the fall with my wife to visit his grave - I'll be burying his big d20 with him - privately just him and I kind of playing one last game and I know what is first words to St. Peter probably were "So, where does a guy get into a good game of Traveller around here?
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
