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The conversation covers his first “adult fantasy” game experience, the discovery of Dungeons and Dragons, and how the Moorcock novels shaped his later interest. 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 \nThe first “adult fantasy”game I played was Sorcerer,designed by Redmond Simonsen andpublished by Simulations Publications Inc.(SPI).I really liked it,and still have that original copyfrom long ago.My brother,a few friends,and I also played a few other SPI games over the nextyear or so.That must have been around 1977.  \nThe following year I read a newspaper article about this complicated “roleplaying game”calledDungeons and Dragons.The article extolled how great and educational it was for kids and youngpeople!(This was before the moral panic of a year or two later.)A few weeks after reading that,Ihad in my possession the Holmes edition of Basic D&D.For the next year or so we played the hellout of D&D and AD&D until our little band of adventurers graduated from college-or dispersedinto the wide world for other real-life reasons.  \nSound so familiar,keeping gaming up as we get older is hard-although I'm buoyed by the rise ofplatforms like Roll20 and the like.I have to say,I'm guessing that,like me,you were already a big fan offantasy and sci-fi by the time you started gaming?Did you discover Moorcock via the RPG or thenovels,by the way?  \nDefinitely the novels,by at least five years,maybe longer.I burned through the DAW editions ofthe Elric Saga and the Hawkmoon's stuff over the course of a few months.At that time,actual  \nbookstores were my main source of paperback fantasy-so it took me that long to locate them all.After the hunt,reading them was almost a disappointment--but only because they contained sofew pages!  \nHa,I can understand!But that lead you into the RPG,I guess?How did you get involved withStormbringer at Chaosium?  \nI learned to play the game through the St.Andre &Perrin first edition,but my first involvementwith Chaosium was when I made a blind submission of a scenario for Call of Cthulhu.Lynn Willisaccepted that first Callof Cthulhu scenario-after asking me to rewrite it three times-I called itThe Paintings(but it was eventually published as Mansion of Madness).Soon after,as mentionedabove,I submitted an idea for Rogue Mistress.  \nBen Monroe was reworking the magic system for the fourth edition and they wanted to follow upthe new rules with a campaign book-so I guess Greg sent a proposal to every freelancer in theChaosium address book.Honestly,I had more interest in Moorcock's work than Lovecraft(blasphe","cbCaijxiq09v6Dhk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijxiq09v6Dhk","pdf",1103596,"English","# Interview Overview\n## Background and Early RPG Experiences\n## Moorcock Influence and Reading Path\n## Involvement with Chaosium\n## Stormbringer Editions and Writing Process","[{\"question\":\"What first “adult fantasy” game did Fred John Behrendt play, and around when?\",\"answer\":\"He describes playing Sorcerer, designed by Redmond Simonsen and published by Simulations Publications Inc. 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