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LD's C&C creations - the witch, a half-ogre, skill and 0-level rules
Troll Lord wrote:
Lord D: you understand where I"m coming from.
Troll Lord wrote:
Lord D: you understand where I"m coming from.
Troll Lord wrote:Lord D: you understand where I"m coming from.
narpet wrote:
I just read this in the news a few minutes ago... even though he wasn't a gaming icon... he was still very important in my life as a kid and a gamer. A lot of his songs evoked imagery that you could kinda correlate with some aspects of D&D. So people like him (both with Sabbath and solo), Iron Maiden, and others helped to create the mood for some of our games.
Troll Lord wrote:
Lord D: you understand where I"m coming from.
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Rhuvein wrote:
Who?
I guess I need to catch up on late entry metal musicians. But, R.I.P. for sure.
Troll Lord wrote:
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Fiffergrund wrote:
Jack Black and Kyle Gass are weeping right now.
Troll Lord wrote:
Lord D: you understand where I"m coming from.
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Lord Dynel wrote:
Late entry? Uh, Rhu, RJD's been around since the late 60s and had success with Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and on his own. He wasn't a huge name...like those Metallica fellas...but he was, what I considered, a cornerstone of the genre.
Fiffergrund wrote:
He must have been Hungry for Heaven.
As I am currently in the town of his birth, I say RIP. You'll be missed.
Jack Black and Kyle Gass are weeping right now.
Rhuvein wrote:
Thanks.
Rainbow . . a Deep Purple offshoot? I certainly know Black Sabbath, but don't recall his name (Dio). But that's me, I really didn't care for Sabaath, but for a few songs. Don't know Mettalica.
Late 60s??? Now I am confused. Or didn't know of him/her/it . . cause I was attending concerts of The Who!! They were'nt considered metal, but were louder, more powerful and more pounding and . . I can't hear very well anymore - ;-( - really!
Rhuvein wrote:
Omgosh, more that I don't know. OK, time for me to get on that boat with the elves to the other shore.
Black is an actor though, right?
Troll Lord wrote:
Lord D: you understand where I"m coming from.
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clavis123 wrote:
And for those who wonder about Dio's cultural legacy, EVERY time you see a metalhead (or anyone who isn't an Italian) flash the "devil-horns" gesture they are paying homage to Dio, consciously or unconsciously. It was Dio who introduced that gesture to metal (and later to music in general), beacuse his Sicilian grandmother used to use it on him to ward off the evil eye.
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R.J. Dio "I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that. That's like saying I invented the wheel, I'm sure someone did that at some other point. I think you'd have to say that I made it fashionable. I used it so much and all the time and it had become my trademark until the Britney Spears audience decided to do it as well. So it kind of lost its meaning with that. But it wasI was in Sabbath at the time. It was symbol that I thought was reflective of what that band was supposed to be all about. It's NOT the devil's sign like we're here with the devil. It's an Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the "Malocchio". It's to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it. It's just a symbol but it had magical incantations and attitudes to it and I felt it worked very well with Sabbath. So I became very noted for it and then everybody else started to pick up on it and away it went. But I would never say I take credit for being the first to do it. I say because I did it so much that it became the symbol of rock and roll of some kind."