How did you find ENWorld?

Vymair · Jan 23, 2017

Referred by a friend.

Grogg of the North · Jan 26, 2017

I was on the train reading through the player's handbook. [MENTION=275]Eridanis[/MENTION] was sitting near me and we got to talking.

MoonSong · Jan 28, 2017

I got there many times through google searches, but didn't recognize or register the site until I followed a link from rpol. Then I started lurking, later I made an account in order to see the XP messages -in fact "lurker" was part of my original handle-, then I started giving XP, and before I noticed I was posting...

Lylandra said:
I was aware of EN (there were a lot of side-quotes from WotC to EN), but I didn't know how large it really was. I made a break from WotC a short time before 5e launched because from my point of view the "optimizers" who - in my opinion - stemmed from the MMO crowd seemed to be taking over and "hard", "constructed" DPS/R optimization, while being fun in a computer game or on a sketchbook, have little space in my roleplaying games.

What brought me here was my search for an adventure path, because I wanted to warm up my GM skills (haven't had GMed for years back then and my first "campaign" ended quickly) before starting my homebrew campaign. I've stumbled across WotBS and Zeitgeist and, given the positive reviews and the synopsis, decided to give the former a try (we're generally more into "classic" fantasy, so I wanted an easy hook-up). Google-fu about what other GMs did with their groups lead me to a lot of Obsidianportal wikis and also to the EN forums where I was positively surprised that 1) GMs were still playing and discussing the campaign and 2) Ryan was still providing feedback and answering questions (A really BIG "THANK YOU!" [MENTION=63]RangerWickett[/MENTION] ).

From there, I started reading other threads and was positively surprised, again, by the rather civil and mature tone of the forums and decided to stay
(And yes, EN *is* a civil forum. As I'm playing WoW as a second hobby, the big forums for that tend to be toxic mudpiles.)

Ok it's official, I'm a sheltered fragile flower, also the greater internet is a scary place. I've found plenty of upset here I don't want to imagine anything worse. (There is plenty of good too...)