A bit of nostalgia

Forty years ago I was hanging around Sheffield wondering what to do with the rest of my life and combining the roles of magazine editor and librarian of NODDSoc, the University of Sheffield's role-playing society. 

The library consisted of a grey-painted steel cabinet somewhere in the bowels of the Octagon Centre, the university's recently completed conference and performance venue. I don't have a hugely clear memory of what games were in there but randomly I recall a copy of the almost-unplayably-complex Aftermath, the Thieves' World boxed campaign setting, and Village of Twilight, a scenario for a long-forgotten horror RPG called Chill. Oh and probably a copy of the Borderlands campaign pack for Runequest.

Anyway, in the course of my society duties I would host a taster session at the Student Union's Freshers' Fair. One of the players was a cute young blonde who had never tried RPGs before. My game-mastering skills must have done something to impress her because we've now been married for 36 years. We have three grown-up kids, two of whom have since attended Sheffield and become NODDSoc members. 

Our daughter has since become a member of the society's committee (and she's not the only second-generation committee member) and recently, after bit of a cock-up on the logistics front, I was delighted to find that the current incarnation of the NODDSoc library was residing in the back of her car until she could get access to it's new home.

There's some really old stuff in there; some of which might well have been under my care in the 1980s!

I've completely moved on from RPGs but it was pleasant to wallow in a bit of nostalgia.