#RPGaDAY2023 Day 16: “Game you WISH you owned”

Back in the Eighties, I got extraordinarily excited about a new game called, “Dragon Warriors“. I collected all six of the little paperback game books and began to persuade my friends to give the game a go. One day, my friend (who shall remain unnamed) asked to borrow the first two books. I never saw those books again.

I wish I (still) owned Dragon Warriors Book 1 and Book 2.

Interestingly, recent expeditions into the top room of our house – the place that acts as a repository of old and forgotten things – has unearthed evidence that suggests I ran some sessions of Dragon Warriors as the GM. This would further update my earlier belief that I didn’t GM until 1990 or so.*

Putting aside the pain of the loss of those books, which I still feel deeply some 30 years later, the fact is that the reissued Dragon Warriors hardback book just didn’t quite feel the same. While I might be able to own the letter of those old books (although I suspect some things have been changed), the desire is to once again own the original.

I loved that essentially British flavour of roleplaying game. Dragon Warriors was a kind of grown-up and slightly more erstwhile Fighting Fantasy, which I deeply loved too. With the suggestion that this was a game I did actually GM back in the day, Dragon Warriors has been further elevated in my consciousness.

Game on!

*Evidence suggests that I was running Fighting Fantasy earlier in the 1980s as a roleplaying game for friends. I have dungeon keys and notes for scenarios for both FF and DW. That places my first GMing between 1984 and 1986, most likely 1985 with Fighting Fantasy.