Did anyone here come into gaming *through* computers?

[Shades of Green]

I came to gaming through freeform online (mail and later IRC) Babylon 5 RPGing - does that count?

 

[Solarious]

I started more traditionally... at the library. On my frequent trips there, I spotted copies of the Dragon magazine in the back, and read them occasionally from time to time. Of course, I was still playing with computers and video games, but then I found Baldur's Gate. Then Baldur's Gate 2. Then I noticed the 3rd edition comming out, and things began to roll downhill from there...

 

[der_kluge]

Today at our local Meetup, a new guy brought his (15? year old) daughter who wanted him to run her and some of her friends in a game of D&D.

Apparently, she'd gotten into it through Baldur's Gate and NeverWinter Nights.


It's funny, she had a 3-ring binder that the guy showed me, and she'd created her very own alt-Bard class. She decided that bard sucked, and needed a revision.

Haha! Not even playing yet, and she's already figured out the bard sucks. There is hope for a new generation after all!!

 

[Thurbane]

Not technically, but the ToEE computer game did get me to give 3.5 D&D a look, after only having played 1E and 2E.

 

[Psionicist]

> Did anyone here come into gaming *through* computers?

Sort of. Before Baldur's Gate (1998) my group didn't play Dungeons & Dragons at all but a BRP/RuneQuest-based Swedish RPG called Drakar och Demoner (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakar_och_Demoner ). I never really liked this game so I suggested we tried AD&D instead, and we have played D&D ever since.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Got into D&D, and roleplaying in general, through Baldur's Gate.

 

[vongarr]

Warhammer : Shadow of the Horned Rat was had me interested in hobby gaming. Through that I guess it opened me up to the idea of RPG. So kinda, yeah.

 

[bolen]

About the same time that I bought my red box set, I got Wizardry for the Apple IIe.

 

[The Cardinal]

My first rpg-experience was playing Secret of the Silver Blades, Ultima6, and Champions of Krynn...
...Then I
went to university
met real-life pen&paper roleplayers
bought Shadowrun2e and BTRC's WarpWorld
created my own sourcebook for Europe in the WarpWorld setting (since the corebook had only info about North America)
started to GM my own game...

 

[Jack99]

I'm really more interested in people who played EQ or WoW and then moved into Tabletop stuff. I haven't seen anyone mention those yet. Quite a number of votes for BG and NWN, though, so that's pretty surprising.

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