LOL You call that old? I can remember the fuss when Arneson and Gygax created D&D in '74 and started playing in '75. It was the hot new thing and I was immediately entranced.
Mercy, you beat me by a few years for picking up D&D (’79 here). (I bought the original Basic D&D box set at the same store that I buy most of my Shadowrun stuff at currently – I wonder how many game stores have been around that long? And who knew that surly service was such a good business plan?).
My original SR1 character retired from the Shadows in 2051. In my mind ‘Gabriel Pest Control Services’ is still in business in Seattle. The staff have to do their best to keep the owner out of people’s houses (a Racoon shaman can only resist so much temptation …), but the company’s willingness to go into bad situations brings in enough high-margin contracts to off-set any problems he causes. (you might be able to guess that his last adventure was Universal Brotherhood). I only got back into playing SR again in the past few years with on-line games, so that original character is still pretty vivid to me – enough so that I’ve not played a full magician in an in-depth sort of game, because it would be hard not to play it like him.
I never really mapped out the rest of his life, so no idea if he ever had kids or how they turned out -- but that is a thought to keep in the back of my mind for the next time I’m looking at making a new character. Thanks for the inspiration, Aria!
