I keep getting things wrong. When I moved back to Tulsa, I moved in with Bob Fultz again for a bit. Then I discovered the Brownstone Apartments that were close to Platt College, and I moved in there. Sally would move into the Brownstones with me later.
Not that getting all of this right is all that important to anyone but me. But, yeah. That's what happened. I did go one Wednesday to World of Comics, and Doug did say that Doug and Carol McComas told him that I ran (past tense) Champions for them.
That is what led to the first game. The second game was the next Wednesday. Robert brought his friend Dave, and Roland brought his friend Robert. So, I went from 3 players to 5. That is what most reasonable RPG GMs would consider maximum player count. That's 6 people around the table.
The problem was that Doug owned a comic book shop. His friends were his customers. He didn't feel like he could tell people that they couldn't join the fun. The next game doubled in size: 10 players. I told Doug that we absolutely couldn't take any more.
We moved from the back room to playing out front right on top of the comic book tables. (We just laid big flat pieces of cardboard over the comic boxes to make a huge table.) For the most part Doug kept the numbers from growing further, (we did get a few more) but he didn't like it. He didn't like telling people, "no."
This was also the same time that Champions 4th Edition came out. What is popularly called the Big Blue Book or BBB. It didn't actually occur to me before writing this, but I am sure that must have been why Doug started the Champions game in the first place. He did sell many copies of that 4th Edition book.
This went on for a few weeks, but something was about to change all of that, something that had happened when I first came back to Tulsa and was living with Bob.
(Sorry for the short post. My sister Karla is here visiting from Georgia. She came to see me for my birthday.)
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