Aeolius
Adventurer
I started playing (Basic) D&D around 1979 (jr high), as a neighborhood game played either at my house or my best friends. A few years later I started an after school D&D club that met on school grounds. I switched schools in 11th grade and could never get a club going, there, as most of the kids were into varsity sports, cliques, and being popular. I still had my neighborhood game, though. In college, I organized a weekly D&D game that met in the main floor lounge of my dorm. When that started to fall apart, we met in one another's rooms. After college, games were few and far between, as I was more concerned with employment and paying rent. I'd run a game a year at best, in those days.
In 1994, I ran my last offline game, "Isle of the Unknown". It was a L10-12 one-shot, a snowed-in weekend game that involved loads of alcohol. Highlights included vegetarian vampires, the sand witch, batlings, and a puzzle befitting a Pylon.
In 1995, I started running games online, both play-by-post and chat-based. That has been my preferred mode of gaming ever since.
So I am possibly atypical, as a gamer, as I have never gamed in a gaming store nor have I gamed at a convention.
In 1994, I ran my last offline game, "Isle of the Unknown". It was a L10-12 one-shot, a snowed-in weekend game that involved loads of alcohol. Highlights included vegetarian vampires, the sand witch, batlings, and a puzzle befitting a Pylon.
In 1995, I started running games online, both play-by-post and chat-based. That has been my preferred mode of gaming ever since.
So I am possibly atypical, as a gamer, as I have never gamed in a gaming store nor have I gamed at a convention.