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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Djeta Thernadier" data-source="post: 1026713" data-attributes="member: 12043">1.) 62.) not yet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />3.) MojoGM is running the game we currently play and another guy in the group runs a Star Wars game sometimes.4.) 5/1 (me)5.) Several. Games Castle in Derry NH, Your Move Games in Somerville MA are a couple6.) both 7.) Wanted to for years but really only a few months / 268.) Who taught you to play? A brief history of D&D , RPGS & Me!I was first taught the basic rules of the game by my friend Michelle Cook (no relation to Monte) when I was in the 7th grade. I recall her getting the D&D books and inviting a bunch of girls over to play but it never took off (teen girls tend to be less interested in slaying orcs than one might think; of course these days, with the 'Orlando Bloom as Legolas phenomenon' this might be different...). I was then not exposed to RPGS again until my freshman year of college when I lived in a dorm next to a kind of creepy girl who had a bunch of Magic cards. I never really got into it though at that point in my life and this girl was creepy in a scary way and so that was that.My second year at a different college, I had a boyfriend who played D&D. His guy friends he played with were really against having a girl intrude upon their game time and so despite the fact that Dan let me flip through the books he had and I sort of knew the rules, the rest of the group refused to even let me watch. This totally turned me off from the game at that point. So that went on for several years (I was in college for 6 years;started early and left late) and for personal reasons, during that time, I actually kind of detested D&D because my only real exposure to players were these guys (except Dan ,who lurks these boards & who, for the record, is a really nice person <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) Then in the last months of my last year of school I met a group of people who played diceless Mage. Again there was some personal stuff going on in that group, but anyways, I was at the GMs house every Friday night and watched them play. They basically told me I was not "goth" enough to play nor would I "get it". These people turned me off from RPGS even more than Dan's friends did. I did play a few games of a DC Superhero game with them as well as a few games of Star Wars but that was about it. Eventually I stopped hanging around with them because they were really snobby.So at this point, I like the game but my only real exposure at this point is A. junior high when no one would play B. creepy dorm room girl C. Chauvenistic men who don't think women should play and D. a group of pretentious snobs who didn't think I was up to their gaming standards.What to do? I kind of forgot about gaming for a while and then, about a year and 1/2 ago, I met my incredibly wonderful boyfriend Chris (you know him as MojoGM) and I think during our first meeting we talked about gaming and all my reservations from past bad experiences went away. I could tell he (and his gaming group) were neither anti-female player nor pretentious and there you go. I started talking to Chris about how I wanted to maybe do a documentary on gamers (I've always had an interest in film) and I told him I wanted to watch his group. After about 10 minutes of watching, I jumped in as Aldwyn, a male 1/2 elf bard NPC and never looked back. Chris taught me how to create my own character, taught me everything about the rules and the books and everything else. He even got me my own 3.5 Players handbook <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> We now live together and game together and we are very happy and I'm never going to NOT play at least some form of RPG again, as long as I live.On a side note we took our Jack Russel Terrier puppy, Monty, to his first gaming store (Games Castle in Derry NH) this past weekend but I don't think he's old enough to play yet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And that's My Not Quite As Brief As I Had Originally Planned History With Gaming.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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