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<blockquote data-quote="drakhe" data-source="post: 1762173" data-attributes="member: 4930">Late start but going strong!I did start a a late(r) age (28, 29) but had a very good reason.&nbsp;With a degree in IT, a job in IT and hobby...anything to do with computers... I quickly turned into a bit of a recluse. People = job = generaly not the kind of people you hang with and all my spare time was spent behind my computer. I did play computer based games but I don't think of that period as being agamer, I would consider myself a computer geek. But then bit by bit, through a couple of rare colleagues that did not fit in the job folk = boring folk I got into more social activities. If first started playing the guitar and was later introduced to Magic the gathering (you know thát cardgame). Later on I started meeting more and more gamers (playin in tournaments and starting to go to con's) and quit by accident I stumble into then rpg arena. Now, at age 39 I still spend considerable time with computers (both proffesionaly and recreative) but my secondary passion definetly is RPG's, as DM, as player and even in a passive sense, collecting and reading rpg books outside what I need for the running games.In closing, two remarks:- I'm exceptionaly happy about discovering and (passionatly) enjoying RPG's as they definetly brought social interaction back into my life- I'm probably very lucky in a different sense as I've never personaly had to contend with the aforementioned prejudices concerning gaming and rpg'ing</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drakhe, post: 1762173, member: 4930"] [b]Late start but going strong![/b] I did start a a late(r) age (28, 29) but had a very good reason. With a degree in IT, a job in IT and hobby...anything to do with computers... I quickly turned into a bit of a recluse. People = job = generaly not the kind of people you hang with and all my spare time was spent behind my computer. I did play computer based games but I don't think of that period as being agamer, I would consider myself a computer geek. But then bit by bit, through a couple of rare colleagues that did not fit in the job folk = boring folk I got into more social activities. If first started playing the guitar and was later introduced to Magic the gathering (you know thát cardgame). Later on I started meeting more and more gamers (playin in tournaments and starting to go to con's) and quit by accident I stumble into then rpg arena. Now, at age 39 I still spend considerable time with computers (both proffesionaly and recreative) but my secondary passion definetly is RPG's, as DM, as player and even in a passive sense, collecting and reading rpg books outside what I need for the running games. In closing, two remarks: - I'm exceptionaly happy about discovering and (passionatly) enjoying RPG's as they definetly brought social interaction back into my life - I'm probably very lucky in a different sense as I've never personaly had to contend with the aforementioned prejudices concerning gaming and rpg'ing [/QUOTE]

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