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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5610842" data-attributes="member: 15538">Phase 1: GimmeI started with the Red Box, and got coaxed into playing AD&D with the older kids on the street. I wanted all the gaming I could get, all the time. I was fairly strict about reading rules. As a budding DM, I experimented with a variety of styles, including "telling a story" and soon learned the folly of trying to predict anything. I sharpened my adversarial, dungeon-crawling player and DM skills, while at the same time sensing there must be more to it than this.Phase 2: Genre!DC Heroes. TMNT. GURPS. MERP. I became a rapid genre fiend at age 12. I became particularly attracted to parsimonious game mechanics. I thought it was keen that Star Wars and GURPS dispensed with all but the humble d6. I spent a lot of time prepping games, and scheming how to find more players. Talislanta and Hero System became my dominant systems.Phase 3: CollegeIn college, the gaming you want, you can't get, and the gaming you get, you don't want. I got talked into playing AD&D again for the time in years. I got rooked into dysfunctional Vampire games. Several campaigns died flaky deaths.Phase 4: EnlightenmentSomewhere along the way, I began to wonder if I had actually outgrown RPGs. I sold all but a few out-of-print games, and even some of those. I went over a year without any tabletop RPGs, played some Everquest, and focused my attention on alcohol and sex. Then one day, I realized how tedious it was being in a long-term relationship with someone with a nominal interest in RPGs, but who seemingly despised actual play. Once that relationship ended, I returned. Ever since then, I'm in a weekly game whenever I can get it. I'll play almost anything that isn't horrible. I love funny dice. I paint miniatures. I still love GURPS and Talislanta, but I enjoy tinkering with funky systems, too. I don't mind playing in a one-shot. Games are fun! I look forward to gaming with my kids.</blockquote>

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