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Offline Gelrir

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Hello from Berkeley!
« on: September 21, 2022, 10:31:40 PM »
Hello all!

I'm a retired fellow, living in Berkeley California. Role-playing games, and some board games, take up a lot of my life the last couple of years.

Besides several fantasy and science-fiction settings, I've got a strong interest in Victorian and pre-WW2 role-playing games. I've built up four shelves of period references!

Glad to come aboard!

--
Michael B.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2022, 08:20:05 AM »
Judging by the photograph, you are Ernest Hemingway and I claim the $500.

Welcome aboard!  I had an enjoyable day  or two wandering around Berkeley in my long gone, misspent, youth. Lovely part of the world.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

Offline Grumpy Gnome

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2022, 09:40:21 AM »
Welcome aboard matey!
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Offline Gelrir

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2022, 10:24:07 AM »
Oh, hardly Mr. Hemingway!

More of a tri-state man of mystery!

--
Michael

Offline Kourtchatovium104

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2022, 12:46:22 PM »
Hello and welcome! So, you were a british diplomat in France...  :D

Offline OSHIROmodels

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2022, 07:11:02 PM »
Welcome  :)
cheers

James

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Offline Gelrir

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2022, 12:12:21 AM »
Hello and welcome! So, you were a british diplomat in France...  :D

Heh, Willoughby was at the British legation in Roumania. The "Carte de Identitate" is the national identity card of that nation in the interwar period; a few samples are attached.

--
Michael B.

Offline Kourtchatovium104

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2022, 02:26:23 PM »
I was misled by the english/french inscription on the passport. Another mystery! And an interesting setting for an interwar game...

Offline Gelrir

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2022, 09:17:08 PM »
I was misled by the english/french inscription on the passport. Another mystery! And an interesting setting for an interwar game...

Many passports used to be labeled in (your nation's language) and French, or even just in French. Here's another diplomatic passport!

--
Michael B.

Offline joekano

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2022, 06:18:13 PM »
Welcome from the South Bay!

Chris
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Offline CapnJim

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2022, 03:20:23 PM »
Welcome aboard, from Michigan!
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Offline nicknorthstar

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2022, 08:16:58 PM »
Hello

Online Patrice

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2022, 09:49:20 PM »
RPG, boardgames, and miniatures? an interesting background from my point of view.  :)

Welcome.

Offline ithoriel

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Re: Hello from Berkeley!
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2022, 10:13:08 PM »
RPG, boardgames, and miniatures?
These are my people!
Welcome aboard from a fellow newbie.
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