This page is going to give you a little insight in to our core group and how we tend to evolve, I have to start way back at the beginning, as far as I can remember it, bad memory you see.

Well the year is around 1981 and I managed to somehow lay my hands on a boxed game called Dungeons & Dragons, there's no board and I can do whatever I can think of, what an amazing game! At this point I had already become interested in historical events, battle and weapons, mainly within the medieval period. I managed to rope a few friends and relatives in to the gaming group. We eventually managed to collect all the editions by all contributing what we could afford into a pot of money and saving up our allowances from our parents. As time went by we aged and progressed from school to college to university, we adopted more games to try including MERP, AD&D, Warhammer Fantasy Battle to name a few. The group was always evolving with new people joining and old people moving away, finding new interests or moving to new geographical locations which made meeting up impossible.

Many members of the group had an interest in computing and computer games, so we had a readily available supply of machines and games to try and play. Chronologically from memory a Vic 20, Commadore 64, Acorn Electron's, Atari ST, then around 1988 a PC!, I think it was a 286sx, given to me by Massimo. However no game we had could come close the real RPG experience we could enjoy by meeting up and rolling those dice.

Around 1989 our regular meeting night would be Tuesdays hence our guild name "Martis Dies Decuria" which roughly translated means Mars Day Group.

Our foray in to online games probably started with really bad MUDS you had to dial up on a Bulletin Board system, costs made these prohibitive for some and the interest span was very minimal, so no game even comes to memory now. When the internet was introduced and more easily accessible at a reasonable cost (you had to pay per hour to the provider and pay for your call charges) a few of us discovered an online game called "Gem Stone II/III" and later Dragon Realms, these were text based games which were more open ended than any previous online RPG we had found.

We still continued where possible to meet up and play other games on Tuesdays, by this time we had a few consoles and had adopted Magic The Gathering as one of the core games to play when we met up, as time constraints for long RPG campaigns just was not available to us. We tended to cycle the games we played so we may have done 6 months AD&D followed by 4 months MTG a few months playing the latest console game etc etc.

Recent online or multiplayer network games we have played on the Tuesday meet ups include Runescape, BF2, BF2142.

As the core group stands we still meet up on Tuesdays, but now we all get on the network and connect to Dungeons & Dragons Online.