{"id":11513,"date":"2013-01-09T20:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2014-04-26T17:44:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T07:44:55","slug":"dungeoneer-by-steve-jackson-and-ian-livingstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11513","title":{"rendered":"Dungeoneer by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=2474\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg\" alt=\"tfwbookclub\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tfwbookclub-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=11514\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dungeoneer.jpg\" alt=\"dungeoneer\" width=\"630\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dungeoneer.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dungeoneer-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My latest pick up from eBay is Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone&#8217;s <em>Dungeoneer<\/em>.\u00a0 I blogged before about picking up <em>Out Of The Pit<\/em>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11357\">monster compendium<\/a> from my childhood that I absolutely adored.\u00a0 If <em>Out Of The Pit<\/em> contained all the creatures that we fought with dice on lazy Sunday afternoons as kids, <em>Dungeoneer <\/em>was the rulebook that held it all together.\u00a0 Like most Jackson &amp; Livingstone material, it cribbed generously from Tolkien in the Britishness of its fantasy world, was clearly influenced by <em>Advanced Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em> for its dice rolling pen &#8216;n&#8217; paper format, but achieved a simpler and more accessible final form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Using this rule book as a template, we spent countless weekends making up quests, fighting dragons and plundering loot.\u00a0 I think we did this for the better part of two years until puberty kicked in, we became distracted by girls and decided to form a band instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But from the ages of twelve to fourteen, this book was my life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11515\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=11515\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bonetrex.jpg\" alt=\"A skeletal t-rex in the courtyard.  Heck yes!\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bonetrex.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bonetrex-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skeletal t-rex in the courtyard. 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