His nickname was based on his famous CHAMPIONS character 'Collateral Damage' - a super hero whose special power was the ability to make hostages explode.īlobert Smith: "Weasly has yet to arrive."ĭeviant Boy: "You invited Weasly? How could you?"īlobert Smith: "But you never had objections to Weasly's presence before."ĭeviant Boy: "But Wesley is letting El Disgusto crash with him!" In don't think he did it on purpose but he was one of those people with a genius that bordered on madness. His specialty was destroying role playing games with point based character generation systems. I'd tell you about them but I wouldn't want to blow your tiny little mind."Īctually I'd spent most of my summer playing STARFLIGHT on my Sega Genesis but I damned if I'd tell them that.ĭeviant Boy: "And this is my new roommate Collateral Darren."īlobert Smith: "Surely not THE Collateral Darren?"Ĭollateral Darren was another local legend. Me: "Well after my adventures I think I can kick back and enjoy a game now."ĭeviant Boy: "You've been having adventures?" Deviant Boy was the next to show up, he brought with him a longhaired kid with a sleepy disposition.ĭeviant Boy: "I thought you were done with gaming." I put together a character, I decided to play a mostly regular joe who got swept into the crazy RIFTS multiverse. and are you sure that having a game at a Denny's is a good idea?"īlobert Smith: "Why not? After all are not most of the most important events of our lives accompanied by food?"īlobert Smith: "Life is a single serving buffet Ab3, pile your dish high."īlobert could be pretty deep for a guy wearing a frilled shirt, leather pants and a paisley vest. LARPers are the crazy ex-girlfriends of gaming. Me: "Blobert you should have known something like that would happen.
A swordfight at the mouth of my parents basement.
I said time and time again that the players in my dark psychodrama could bring katanas and hatchets but they were only for ornamental purposes."īlobert Smith: "Indeed. My only sin was allowing the event to become too intense. Me: "I don't think - You tried to run a LARP in your basement?"īlobert Smith: "What better place to evoke the dark mystery of the Mind's Eye Theater than a dark underground room reeking of mothballs and an ill-kept furnace. My parents have banned all gaming related activities since I tried to have a Vampire LARP in the basement." Me: "I thought this was just some kind of a pre-game get together."īlobert Smith: "I am afraid not. Me: "Well I know how long it can take to set up a Palladium character so I thought I would get here early."īlobert Smith: "Please help yourself to paper and pencils." It was the winter of 1991 and while my love life was still a spectacular disaster I was confident that Bill Clinton was going to win the election this year and that I would never have to hear the term 'President Bush' again.īlobert Smith: "Much like the end of the disco era, you're early."
I was more than a little surprised to find myself gaming again. A pile of RIFTS books and notepapers were at his side. When I got to Denny’s Blobert Smith was there waiting for me in a family sized booth. THE FOLLOWING RPG.NET RANT SHOULD NOT BE READ WHILE OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY. WARNING! THE FOLLOWING MAY OFFEND BUG POWDER ADDICTS, WAITRESSES AND LARPERS.
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