tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post2217757302971600233..comments2024-03-25T21:52:03.310-05:00Comments on Hill Cantons: Fantasy F*ckin' VietnamChris Kutalikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01414743509426875792noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-28225827484113995622020-12-24T23:34:16.152-06:002020-12-24T23:34:16.152-06:00This is among my favorite posts from all the blogs...This is among my favorite posts from all the blogs, ever.Ben L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-20223350414269609592017-06-18T19:31:20.698-05:002017-06-18T19:31:20.698-05:00I gamed with a Vietnam vet for years. He usually k...I gamed with a Vietnam vet for years. He usually kept it light, but once in a while the curtain would be drawn back. As a much younger civilian, I often felt inadequate at refereeing him. He knew things I could only imagine.Baron Greystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636292202674906870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-7305553755234932902017-06-18T10:52:07.720-05:002017-06-18T10:52:07.720-05:00actually that thread is original thing that got me...actually that thread is original thing that got me blogging and running my version of long stairsKonsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-74753308304747795772015-07-19T06:33:48.263-05:002015-07-19T06:33:48.263-05:00That pic, if I recall correctly, came from the boo...That pic, if I recall correctly, came from the book The Tunnels of Cu Chi that I read in '88 for a presentation in my 10th grade English class. My buddy's father was a tunnel rat and led me to this book. As a kid who loved D&D, the book had tremendous appeal. Your post is a great write up of how your dad played--very cool and informative. The book is available here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Tunnels-Cu-Chi-Vietnam/dp/B00410TBL4/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=140BGWX47MKKPTVKGYZRVichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268174879688628707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-59586022994217694922012-04-27T17:53:25.897-05:002012-04-27T17:53:25.897-05:00Caught this on the back side. Inspirational. Thank...Caught this on the back side. Inspirational. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-86425447593016235372012-03-02T15:14:54.707-06:002012-03-02T15:14:54.707-06:00Well deserved praise my friend! Excellent story an...Well deserved praise my friend! Excellent story and all the better because of the bond you have with your dad.Don Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07230631364253238804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-88475163975670297952011-04-20T15:22:23.471-05:002011-04-20T15:22:23.471-05:00Wow, that is gaming through the eyes of a very dif...Wow, that is gaming through the eyes of a very different perspective. Kind of the opposite of what I though this would be about when I saw the title. Vietnam has come around to be a niche campaign setting either without fantasy elements (like Palladium's Recon) or with (Pinnacle's Tour of Darkness).DocStouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13239520630901083975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-22273378185827624432011-04-20T09:54:07.449-05:002011-04-20T09:54:07.449-05:00I play like my dad too...and talk, tease, laugh, a...I play like my dad too...and talk, tease, laugh, and grit my teeth when I am doing something intense like him too.<br /><br />Good story, Tsojcanth, my grandfather (dad's dad), the greatest storyteller in our family, only told the funny or interesting stories about WW2. <br /><br />He never told the stories about combat and death though he trucked through the entire Pacific Theater--from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. I grew up hearing stories of Army life in pre-war Hawaii, but almost nothing about the actual war. <br /><br />The silence was telling.Chris Kutalikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414743509426875792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-81190026350545664672011-04-20T07:12:16.947-05:002011-04-20T07:12:16.947-05:00Beautiful post. I grew up hearing my gramp's s...Beautiful post. I grew up hearing my gramp's stories of how he walked back from Stalingrad after the Soviet counteroffensive, where the Italian contingent sent there routed horribly under the Red Army blows. He died before i could actually comprehend and appreciate what he did, and that's a huge shame. The war left him so scarred that even 50 years later his mind would often wander, leaving him crying, saying that war is a horrible horrible thing.<br />Anyway, I play like your dad. Not as sharp as him, but that's definitely OSR style <i>propah</i>. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-12249258778648279202011-04-20T06:43:17.881-05:002011-04-20T06:43:17.881-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-37426293721608415652011-04-20T00:30:48.367-05:002011-04-20T00:30:48.367-05:00> When that stopped working he doused the dogs ...> When that stopped working he doused the dogs with oil set them on fire and loosened them into the massed ranks of his opponents<br /><br />Kurtz had a quote for that... Fantasy F*ckin' Vietnam, indeed.<br /><br />+thx for sharing, Chris.irbyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193584357850337816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-25869157770970328922011-04-20T00:26:49.007-05:002011-04-20T00:26:49.007-05:00awesome post!awesome post!Ragnorakkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03812860633134547618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-50487040287752711942011-04-19T22:42:31.311-05:002011-04-19T22:42:31.311-05:00I double-plus all the previous "great story&q...I double-plus all the previous "great story" comments. Wow. I was really close to a crazy Vietnam vet growing up. He was my much older sister's boyfriend for about 10 years and he introduced me to Heavy Metal magazine when I was 10 and lots of awesome pulp sci-fi. He hated the war and would never talk about it.<br /><br />Unfortunately I never got a chance to game with him as they moved away about the time I really got into rpgs in 78. He shot himself in the early 90s...a late casualty of that stupid war.The Drunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292082916107221498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-29548824843043078632011-04-19T22:15:02.199-05:002011-04-19T22:15:02.199-05:00Great post. It reminded me of SF author David Dra...Great post. It reminded me of SF author David Drake's writing--not his fiction, but in his comments about his novels and short stories, Drake often discuss how Vietnam affected him and how he dealt with that when he returned.Desert Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13862907749003106864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-84809725479782866122011-04-19T21:37:22.991-05:002011-04-19T21:37:22.991-05:00Thanks all for the kinds words.
I am actually pr...Thanks all for the kinds words. <br /><br />I am actually pretty close to my father, and it was he that reminded me of our games that summer when I told him about the blog.Chris Kutalikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414743509426875792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-56251819088512581002011-04-19T20:51:43.473-05:002011-04-19T20:51:43.473-05:00Yeah, this is a great post.Yeah, this is a great post.-Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02331863932906631618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-14205401246279789752011-04-19T20:50:37.046-05:002011-04-19T20:50:37.046-05:00I love these kind of personal D&D history stor...I love these kind of personal D&D history stories. Well done and thank you for sharing!ze bulettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603716850479808633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-80797532717687236972011-04-19T19:29:54.971-05:002011-04-19T19:29:54.971-05:00Awesome story! Sounds like a great dad too.Awesome story! Sounds like a great dad too.Mike D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11812658778436294258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-75644760892575574132011-04-19T18:03:40.052-05:002011-04-19T18:03:40.052-05:00Many thanks for posting this. Great story!Many thanks for posting this. Great story!scottszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10327316054801308727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-8229237870372869512011-04-19T17:43:15.986-05:002011-04-19T17:43:15.986-05:00Now that brings back a memory ... of reading The P...Now that brings back a memory ... of reading The Park Is Mine, a Rambo-like action novel of a crazed (like a fox) vet who turns Central Park into a killing zone. I used the punji sticks and Malayan gates from that write-up as traps in my 11th grade dungeon.<br /><br />OMG, it was a TV movie with Tommy Lee Jones .. how did I miss that?<br /><br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091724/Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-43157821394702732112011-04-19T17:20:57.997-05:002011-04-19T17:20:57.997-05:00Great story. :)Great story. :)Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-2294211245232884552011-04-19T17:20:55.970-05:002011-04-19T17:20:55.970-05:00If I had lived in Texas I might be one of Alexis&#...If I had lived in Texas I might be one of Alexis' compatriots.<br /><br />Same here, lean, mean dungeon clearing machines. We rarely missed a trp or secret door and literally cleaned out dungeons of every copper sometimes.<br /><br />My dad was the same era. Excellent post.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08231609275892907901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-89669722282927542202011-04-19T16:10:40.251-05:002011-04-19T16:10:40.251-05:00I grew up playing with people like that who had ne...I grew up playing with people like that who had never been to Vietnam.<br /><br />I was one of them.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1389986049507804094.post-5730412441242548002011-04-19T15:15:22.180-05:002011-04-19T15:15:22.180-05:00Wow. That's a great story. Thanks for sharing ...Wow. That's a great story. Thanks for sharing it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13457050225967190052noreply@blogger.com