Did anyone here come into gaming *through* computers?

[Wik]

I came back to DnD after playing EQ and WoW for 6-7 years, does that count?

No. Shush.

 

[Cameron]

I'm curious - we hear lots of talk about people who leave the hobby to play MMORPGs like WoW or Everquest.

I'm curious if there's anyone here who got introduced to "role-playing" via a computer game, and then discovered tabletop RPGs as a result?

Started off playing Ultima IV, and then ran through the entire Ultima series. Found DnD along the way. To date, Ultima still remains one of the most memorable RPGs to me.

 

[Jolly Giant]

A friend of mine used Baldur's Gate to lure me into D&D. He gave me his old BG game which he was tired of. Then; when I was completely hooked, he started tempting me to try out the real thing. He had been playing AD&D for years, but had just moved to my town and didn't know anybody and so he needed someone to play with, you see. He bought the 3.0 PHB the day it hit the shelves and brought it straight round to my place. A few days later, he was DMing me and a group of my friends through our first D&D campaign. And we've been gaming together ever since.

 

[Gulla]

I started out with a lot of games on the Commodore 64 (Wizardry among others) but it was Moria (a rouge-like game: ascii graphics, one big quest, and neverending levels of dungeons) that pulled me into roleplaying after a poster at the university informed me about the gamers club.

One afternoon, and I had a new hobby

Håkon

 

[Particle_Man]

Not me personally, but I ran a game of C&C for 9 year olds that had computer rpg experience (and talked jargon I didn't understand, like "respawn").

Nowadays, I also encounter people at the university level that play CRPGs and sometimes they get into pen and paper (I ran Savage Worlds: 50 Fathoms for some of those).

Mind you, another entry-path to pen and paper rpgs is through LARPs!