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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
 by Kiralynn of Rohan on 2018/06/12 1:57 pm
My tabletop group recently started a play-by-post RPG on Wordpress based in the world of Pern. I started feeling nostalgia for my early Pern RP days on PernMUSH, starting back in 1991. After a bit of web browsing, I found a MU* still running with that game's successor. How fun! I was also floored to discover a web site that kept track of all the dragon impressions since then, with my long retired character on the list.
It got me thinking, are there any Banders who are fans of Pern?
Did any of you play on PernMUSH or SoCon? If so, who were you?
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Hannariel/Brioney on 2018/06/12 2:57 pm
I'm a fan of Anne McCaffrey and have most of her Pern books (and also her son Todd's). I never knew there was a game though.
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Amberflower on 2018/06/12 5:47 pm
Oh I love Pern (and many of her other books). I have a couple autographs. I had no idea about a game either, too young at that time.
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Carysta on 2018/06/12 6:12 pm
Pern is wonderful! I have all the books, except not all the Todd ones - his writing style was so different I couldn't get into his solo ones  I also loved the Tower and the Hive series, and Crystal Singer series. She wrote so many good things!
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Hannariel/Brioney on 2018/06/12 6:22 pm
Oh, yes the Crystal Singer!
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Avangrod on 2018/06/12 6:27 pm
I've read 6 or 7 pern books great stuff!!! Also read a couple Acorna the Unicorn girl books hehehe... and no that doesn't make me a bronie!!! Maybe a little more floofy though 8P
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re: re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Nibun on 2018/06/13 12:26 am
| Avangrod wrote: | | I've read 6 or 7 pern books great stuff!!! Also read a couple Acorna the Unicorn girl books hehehe... and no that doesn't make me a bronie!!! Maybe a little more floofy though 8P |
Hahaha you got it straight out of my mouth 
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Avangrod on 2018/06/13 2:18 am
By the way I must have played around 40ish tabletop rpgs in my day, and I do remember hearing about Pern one(s?)( could have been some homebrew thing not sure) but never got the chance to play them myself. Hope you have a fantastic campaign!!!
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Carysta on 2018/06/13 2:37 pm
| Avangrod wrote: | | I've read 6 or 7 pern books great stuff!!! Also read a couple Acorna the Unicorn girl books hehehe... and no that doesn't make me a bronie!!! Maybe a little more floofy though 8P |
Look up The Rowan. It's the first of the Tower and the Hive series and it's amazing, in my opinion :)
Also, I forgot to mention The Ship Who Sang and the other ones in that series (some of which were collaborated on with other authors), they are also great!
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Kiralynn of Rohan on 2018/06/13 3:29 pm
Oh yes, those were wonderful books, too! Now I'm feeling the urge to read them again.
I never saw an official Pern RPG, but I did GM a homebrew at several conventions in California, back in the 80's. The games always filled up quickly. I loved the sort of people that Pern games attracted. Much like the classic Star Trek and LotR fans, they were always good-hearted folk.
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Loeci on 2018/06/16 4:28 am
I love the Pern books too! Also have read some of her others as well. I really liked the Powers trilogy especially. I need to see about finding some of the ones I've missed, like the Ship books.
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Carysta on 2018/06/16 3:51 pm
| Loeci wrote: | | I love the Pern books too! Also have read some of her others as well. I really liked the Powers trilogy especially. I need to see about finding some of the ones I've missed, like the Ship books. |
You can sometimes find the Ship books at used book stores, or through Thriftbooks.com (oh so many many books there) or they're even all in ebook format now so maybe a library service like Hoopla would have :) Or amazon. Or somewhere :)
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Juneith on 2018/06/16 5:47 pm
Love the Pern books, have read many of them, even had my book club read the first one (they liked it too). But have never played or knew about any games.... then again this is the only video game I play, sooo…. (not even sure what the words PernMUSH or SoCon mean)
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Avangrod on 2018/06/16 7:36 pm
Hmm actually just finished a book and looking for a new one to read maybe it will be Pern
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re: Fans of Dragonriders of Pern
by Carysta on 2018/06/17 1:09 am
| Avangrod wrote: | | Hmm actually just finished a book and looking for a new one to read maybe it will be Pern |
Hahah 'a' book ;)
http://pern.srellim.org/readorder.htm
This is the publication order. Some people prefer chronological but for a first go-through I kind of agree with this list. Second read through in time order is fun too!
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