Eric Noah, stay out of this thread. Everybody else, hop on in.

[IamTheTest]

EN World has given me the experience of many in a small, easy to chew, bite. I would not be nearly as interested in this game had I not found this site. Thank you for making that possible.

 

[Guillaume]

ENWorld is for me:
A chance to dream about playing D&D again someday soon,
A chance to read about gaming in general with little or no snide remarks and flame wars,
A chance to read some good story hours,
A chance to spend some time doing something else than writing my Ph.D. Thesis!

Thanks Eric and "Joyeux Noël"

 

[Bretbo]

When I first joined ENWorld, I had been out of gaming for close to ten years. I eagerly wanted to find a good group of gamers and get back to the hobby I love and greatly missed. As luck would have it, a local Game Day was being formed by a number of ENWorld faithful and I attended. The event was a great deal of fun and I attended all the other Game Days that followed. As a result of this events, I was invited to join two groups playing games I was very interested in playing and, as it turned out, where a bunch of really cool people. And there is every reason to believe I'll be meeting more awesome folks in other Game Days to come.

So ENWorld a) help me re-discover my long lost love of gaming and b) help me find a bunch of new friends who share this same love and who are a blast to hang out with! For that I will always be grateful to this wonderful forum!

Thanks Eric, ENWorld rocks!

 

[DJCupboard]

What ENWorld Means to ME:

In D'Twenti, the most important trading city in all of Arpigee, ENWorld is the only Inn worth visiting regularly, no matter what you're looking for.

~DJC~

 

[Deadguy]

ENWorld - in earlier incarnations - was where I learned about this new version of D&D - and learned how to play it! Now the place is a home-away-from-home, the second place I check online every day, and where I find a group of like-minded (and not so like-minded!) fellow gamers, willing to spend time talking about my favourite hobby.

For all these things, Eric (and Grandma too!), I am eternally grateful.

 

[Pbartender]

EN World is the only online forum that I've participated in consistantly and constantly since its inception... More than six years.

 

[Darth Shoju]

ENWorld is a place I've spent a lot of my time in over the last 5 years or so. It is a daily experience for me. It is a place populated with some of the most creative, well-spoken and intelligent people on the internet. It is a place that has sparked my imagination in a myriad of ways and shown me my favourite game from perspectives I'd never even dreamed of before. It is a community in the purest sense of the word and, in my opinion, an icon of teh interwebs. Ultimately, it is a place that feels like home to thousands of gamers around the world and it all came to be as a result of the honest passion of a true gamer.

Cheers Eric, and thanks for forging this wonderful world!

Chris Smith,
aka Darth Shoju

 

[Matchstick]

Let me envision my RPG life without ENWorld...

- I would not have gone back to GenCon after so many years, nor would have played in the excellent games ENWorlders have run over the last couple years.

- I would not have run adventures for, or played the D&D boardgame with my young daughters (thanks Samantha the Red!).

- I would not have found or investigated internet desktop gaming to try and bring together old friends scattered across the country. Nor would I have gone further out on that limb and voluteered to GM a Bureau 13 game over the internet.

- My Bureau 13 game would be much different. ENWorld has helped with monsters, plot ideas, and most of all encouragement.

- ENWorld helps me feel like part of the RPG world by providing a field where industry professionals and legends (and both) can interact with the player base on a casual and constructive level.

Put simply and without exaggeration, without this site RPG's would be simply a happy memory for me.

Thank you to Eric, and to everyone involved with the site.

- Kirk (Matchstick)

 

[buzz]

What ENWorld means to me:

ENWorld is my D&D ground zero. It's one of the first sites I visit every day. Its community got me going to gaming cons (ENWorld Gameday) for the first time in my life. Its community inspired me to start organizing gaming cons (yup... ENWorld Chicago Gameday). Its the mainstream gaming site that I didn't leave behind once I started getting into indie RPGs. Its where I get all my D&D and d20 news, where I go for product reviews, where I go for helpful answers to all kinds of questions, and where I try to offer help in return. It hosts one of the few RPG awards that I feel actually matters. It's just about the only fan site I happily pay to support.

ENWorld is a treasure. If it were in the DMG, it'd be an artifact.

Thank you, Eric.

 

[Ilium]

EN World is what got me back into a hobby I had forgotten I loved. Thanks.