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.....I found dozens of notebooks with adventure ideas and notes going back over 20 years. I'm not a hoarder (really) but I never threw these notebooks away. So now I have games I can fall back on that either may have already been played or have lain in secret for 2 decades awaiting the light of day.
I also noticed that over the last 20 years my handwriting has degenerated terribly. I never had good penmanship, but boy oh boy has it gotten worse. It's gone from completely cursive to a weird mix of both, with printing becoming more and more prevalent as time has passed.
Anyway, thought I'd share the story of how I found some long lost treasures. Anyone else ever find old games they ran or wrote and never had the chance to?
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I have a lot of character sheets for games I never ran and a ton of drawings of characters that never made it to real play xD
I also keep the drawings and brief bios that me and my cousins did of characters that we then chose and played when we had less than 10 years old. We didn't know role-playing was a thing, we just drew characters and pretended to be them. I had to end being a roleplayer xD
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I think as kids we're all roleplayers. It's when we become older we're told to grow up and stop the pretending by the societies we live in. Fortunately, there are those of us who don't listen.
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I too, have reams of old game notes that (in some cases) date back to the early 1980's. I even have articles I had downloaded and printed from the old "TSR Online" on AOL back in the mid to late 1990's.
And like you, a lot of those old notes and articles never saw the light of day. Hopefully, given enough time, they will! :-D
I wish I could say I found some old stuff, but sadly last year when we sold our house a lot of my old gaming stuff got thrown out by mistake. I'll never be able to look at some of my old character sheets and reminisce about past games.
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I feel ya. I lost my original characters' sheets years ago in a move. My first D&D characters and my DC Hero's character sheets are the ones I miss most.
I got to play Toon once. It was a complete hoot.
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Oh, yeah!
I had new insulation installed in my attic back in March, and I had to pull out all the junk we'd been storing up there. Some of those boxes had been up there since the day we moved in...20 years ago. I found a treasure-trove of AD&D gaming stuff I'd written or co-written back in college, including modules, world-building notes, and a bunch of old character sheets. I also found copies of Sorcerer's Almanac, the D&D fanzine my college gaming club produced.
I scanned a bunch of this stuff and loaded it to Google Docs, if anyone is interested in taking a look! It's all from the late '80s/early '90s, during the transition between AD&D 1e and 2e.
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Several years back, our basement flooded badly, and that's where we kept the bulk of our library (fiction, nonfiction, and RPGs). Everything that was on a bottom shelf got soaked, and most of the damaged books weren't salvageable. Fortunately, most of the RPG books were unscathed, but I did lose some binders of old campaign notes, including most of the notes from the GURPS fantasy game that was the longest campaign I had run at that point. Fortunately, my binder of hard copies of the typed summaries of all 50+ sessions survived (that was the one thing I would not have been able to recreate!) and I had much of the rest of the public info online in a wiki.