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Even Pro Athletes Can Be Power Gamers

Posted by simoniker on from the now-you're-playing-with dept.

jht writes "Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is known primarily as one of the best power pitchers in the game of baseball. He has a different side, though, as a huge RPG fan, of both board and online games. Curt is even the owner of a company called Multi-Man Publishing that publishes material for Avalon Hill wargames. But Curt is possibly best known in the gaming world for his avowed EverQuest addiction. ESPN Gamer recently published an interview with Schilling about his MMORPG habits and platform choices - an interesting read."

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  1. Re:Not that Shocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember back in the day when Mark McKinney (of SNL and Kids in the Hall) fame played a little air combat sim called Air Warrior.

    Ahhhhh memories. I played that damn game for close to a decade.

  2. Re:Not that Shocking by fireduck · · Score: 4, Interesting

    true. Everquest addiction is not that shocking. The cool/bizarre part of the story is his co-ownership of the tabletop wargaming company. Here's a guy making millions on baseball and in the off season he's researching and writing WW2 campaigns? would be nice to have a job with enough downtime to give serious fruit to your hobbies...

  3. Re:Not that Shocking by jazman_777 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The cool/bizarre part of the story is his co-ownership of the tabletop wargaming company.

    Advanced Squad Leader is pretty hardcore wargaming. I don't know if he's into researching and writing that line of games, but playing it is serious enough. If you play it, you probably have a ton of opinions about the rules, and lots of house rules, so you might just as well be writing and researching. (I used to play ASL.)

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