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Chill, Shadowri Gami By NICOLE SUBRIZI Staff Writer Sorcerers, super heroes and war commanders will come together this weekend as the Round Table Gaming Society holds its 6th annual convention at USC. The convention agenda is set as a complete weekend of board and role-playing games. Anyone can compete in a maximum of four games in return for a $7 dollar registration fee. "We'll basically be playing games all weekend," Society Convention Coordinator Trella Cherry said. The convention begins Friday with a rules session and the first two rounds of competition. Competition rounds three through 16 will be Saturday, and the final round will be Sunday. "Anyone who has an interest in board games and role-playing games is welcome ? all you need is interest," society member Erik Nimz said. "Anybody who has at one time or another enjoyed gaming would have a perfect opportunity to get reacquainted with it." Several games will be offered during each round. Board games such as Diplomacy, Ameoba Wars and Battlesystem, and roleplaying games like Chill, Pendragon and Villians and Vigilantes are single-round events. Tournament competitions will run for a series of rounds. The convention will offer Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Shadowrun, Champions RPG, The Best Friend train game and Avalon Hill Classics Wars Games tournaments. Cherry said role-playing games require the player to assume the role of a character in the games. For example, Shadowrun characters "make livings in shadows " Chamninns characters are super heroes and Best Friend characters build and sell train lines, she said. Campu By AMY BARCOMB Staff Writer The Carolina Tour Guide Asso year as a student organization at Ui "It's still very much a fledgling tion's adviser, said. "Next year we hope to add little things like T-shir to make them more prestigious." The Carolina Tour Guide Assoc a week, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. duri week during the summer only at 1( Normally 15 people go on each i of the year, King said. With 35 si enough guides that each student oi I 1? 6 ^ccor< Door i Cruise, rio ? 0 1 I SPQySQggf) SY TH 1 in among events ng convc ?sTSS?y~~isfe A -.j|'._. - ;J' .juuL..^' ' 4Pu....A -"'''V " w " ""'" " ' , /' - ^ I.V'i ;,? -C ' ?. "It's basically problem-solving a lot of the times," she said. Cherry expects a strong turnout for the Shadowrun tournament. "Shadowrun is a new game that's really hot right now," she said. Shadowrun is a role-playing game set in the year 2050. Science has progressed to the point where computers are equivalent to the human mind, and magic has been reinstated into society, the combination of high technol ogy and high sorcery sets the s tour gi ciation has just completed its first SC. activity," Scott King, the organiza'11 get student activity fees, and we ts and name tags for the tour guides :iation conducts 10 scheduled tours ng the school year, and five tours a ) a.m. because of the heat, tour, and spring is their busiest time :udents in the association, there are nly gives one or two tours a month GRADUATE SPEC S9^\ 9* / fip >et r0?' / I h Sveteo / j riftYSU ;S *48 month closed end lease v on 60,000 total miles at $.1C $568.49 = 1st month payment & , tion. Tags & tax additional. Total | Airport Blvd. West Columbia, SC - (80: SED CAR SUPERI\/ PORT BLVD. W. UULA., 5U )C(M6 April 5-7 at the Russell House AD &D, Avalon Hill Classics, ? Best Friend Train Tournament, )ns, Shadow run and much more info call Trella Cherry 779-1924 RO-888 VB TABLE GAMG SOCIETY :ntion to ' V. i :^2 V j * Nimz wrote a 147-page script for the Shadowrun tournament at the convention. In his script, the plavers are hired to deliver a package and the delivery does not go as smoothly as foreseen, he said. The society expects 100 to 150 people to attend the convention. Cherry said that as of March, people from Clem son, Aiken and even Tennessee had registered. A Canadian may be coming for the Best Friend train game, she said. The convention has been adveruides enj depending on the schedule. Corey Cushing, a broadcasting jun: since its beginning in January 199C president this past year. Cushing decided to join the associc before coming to USC was what sold "It's fun to show off the university he said. "It also gives me a good cl might not otherwise have a chance to The campus tours offer prospectiv life at USC is really like, history juni< "A tour of the campus is. the firsi most students from out of town," she ] I A I iriL ' ~ >| M?tioq St. : H*ndriek ?r~ ^T" Ma/J^ //option to purchase of $7619.50. Based )/niile over. refundable security deposit due at incepsayments - $12,887.52 sos 3) 791-5660 1ART (803) 791-7785 fJutT I 1 \ot ^ be held tised in Dragon, a gaming magazine, since January. "I think that we are going to have a first-rate small convention this year," Nimz said. He hopes the conventions will continue to improve and get bigger over the years. Anyone interested in attending the convention should either contact Cherry (779-1924) or attend registration Friday at 4 p.m. in Russell House. Registration will continue throughout the weekend. oy job ior, has been with the association i. He was the association's vice ition because the tour he went on him on the university, he said. / and everything it has to offer," tiance to meet different people I meet." e students a chance to see what 3r Monica Zein said, t connection with the school for said. See GUIDES page 7 in Bicyci -Columb 254-9797 1 SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS5 IP out of erf OH/1 HO of#/1 CIJU IllufiC RIUEF 779-2373 Exit 1-26, right on ssssssssssssssssssssssss Ex-coac grand o By DAVID BOWDEN Viewpoint Editor Pat Riley, one of the greatest coaches in NBA history, was at the Koger Center Thursday night, -presenting his speech "Staying One Step Ahead of the Posse." Riley gave an interview with local press before his speech, answering questions about his career in the NBA and his future plans. Riley is a gregarious man, obviously accustomed to being interviewed. He was candid about coaching and his new career at NBC since his retirement from the NBA in June 1990. When asked what it felt like to be out of coaching, Riley said, "The first Lakers game I saw (after retirement), I looked down and said 'Who the hell is that guy coaching my team?'" (referring to new Lakers coach Mike Dunleavy, a former player at USC). Riley had been with the Lakers for 22 years as a player and coach. Of all his NBA statistics (including the highest winning percentage of any coach in history and the most playoff wins of any coach), Riley said he was mosl proud of the team's almost constant victories. "If you talk about winning, there is only one thing; there is no difference between winning and success. I think winning championships is the ultimate," he said. The Takers had 13 nlavoff armearance* and six NBA championships wher he was with them, including foui championships with him as heac coach. When asked what characteristics made him a successful coach, Riley humbly replied, "What characteristics made me a successful i coach? Magic Johnson. Kareenr i Abdul-Jabbar. I think I learned th( job. I learned just like anybody else; I had a role." The dapperly dressed coacfi J turned serious when he talked ab out why he was giving this speak ing tour. "We are just getting ou of what I call the Decade of the Disease of More. The stock mark et. . . the homeless, crime, one thing after another. There was no very good leadership in the '80s and now we have an opportunit; to do something about it." When another reporter asked th inevitable question of whether hi was through with coaching, Rile; responded, "I think so. I really di vkh? * l|hj rAf j.k five Points behind Ec "The Most Comple le Center in the So ia's Most Professioi Kona Specialize Nishiki Schwinn Trek ?Gary Fish Klein Won. - Fri. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 5SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ' your dor a splash at t RIDGE h recalls le times Unless everything really just goes down the tubes ... I've got a full plate right now." Sports Illustrated recently quoted star Laker guard Magic Johnson as saying that he one day wants to buy the team. Riley said Johnson "would be an excellent owner. I think he will probably someday get in if he could ... I don't know if he has that kind of bread yet." Rumors are flying about another Laker player as well. The National was reporting that forward James Worthy might be traded to another team. Riley said it was just that, ( rumor. He went on to say, "That's the ultimate contradiction about teaching players what it is to be part of a team. You have to teach loyalty , and trust... on the other hand, the player gives that kind of loy[ alty and that kind of trust and then he reads his name in the paper that he might get traded .... There isn't anybody above getting traded because it is a business." As for the future of his successor Mike Dunleavy, Riley said, "I don't know ... the jury is out He is a competitor, ne was a 101 nice me; we were sort of journeymen . players, never really the stars of the league, but we contributed. "He is very bright, he understands the game, and I think when . Jerry West (the owner of the Lak; ers) picked him, there were a lot of , the qualities he saw in some of the r other people who have played for I the Lakers and coached for the Lakers." Riley also said Dunleavy . is probably more popular in South Carolina now that he is coach of the L.A. Lakers than when he [ played at the university, i Riley predicted that there was ? no way the NBA champion Detroit j Pistons would win three straight crowns if Isiah Thomas didn't re{ turn for the playoffs. As for the defending NCAA na tional champion UNLV Runnin' t Rebels, Riley was a little off in his , prognostication: "I don't think [ anybody's going to beat UNLV. If they were to be beaten, it would ' have been earlier in the NCAA playoffs." y He did state his opinion on the controversy over whether or not e UNLV could play at the profesB sional level: "They're a talented y ball club, they would win a few 0 games, but only three out of 82." sm | :kerd ite utheast" nal Serviceid 1 2SI- / NartfM'a \ SFO*m / / _ m/ ,11 0. use I \ I r s\ 806 Pavillion Ave. Columbia, SC 29205 OS-888 SIT"-1: I