I "appropriated" this idea from the SF.org forum. It isn't an active topic over there but it sure is a decent one, so I'm ressurecting it here:<br /><br /><br /><strong><font size="4" color="#ff0000">What is your fondest SF memory?</font></strong><br /><br /><br /><span id="msg" class="spnMessageText"><font size="2" color="#000000">We used to have sleep-overs every weekend or two for the sake of RPG-ing until dawn.<br /><br />But I'd have to say some of my fondest memories originated when we moved here (Vegas), back in early June of 1983. For about six months, we lived in a travel trailer at Sam's Town RV Park while waiting for our house to get built. The owner's son (Frank) was a few years older than me and was an avid AD&Der. He and a couple of his friends were always playing in the lobby of the RV Park office so it didn't take me long to shmooze my way into their gaming.<br /><br />Turns out it was actually a common thing, having visitors in the park popping in for a session or two or three. But hey, I was going to be a resident for a while so why not?<br /><br />Anyways after a few of their "ultimist" AD&D games (they were all playing LVL:20+ characters) I popped SF on them. They all got into it initially, but the two friends eventually left the game. However, Frank was hooked from the get go. He & I would play every day, dawn to dusk, until the office closed. And we had a few other visitors join in from time to time, we would play the Omicron adventure each time. We ended up with a third "long time resident" named John and we spent the remainder of summer playing Star Frontiers, eventually drafting up our own starship rules (which was pretty much an overhaul of what I brought with me from Texas).<br /><br />Unbeknownst to us, KH had been released during all this, and I finally discovered it one day at a department store. I brought it home. I had to, the box set was named after the ship I had created under our house rules! Soon we were playing by official TSR SF ship rules.<br /><br />Even after school started, we would still occupy the lobby with our SF sessions on the weekends. Frank ended up enlisting in the Air Force, but John and I would continue each weekend in the lobby until he and his family finally left the park, just before we did to move into our new home (a few days before Thanksgiving).<br /><br />I had found a new group by the end of the school year, but to me those 12 hour sessions in the lobby with Frank and/or John were "it".</font></span>
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