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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painted_klown" data-source="post: 6431788" data-attributes="member: 6785485">Hello everyone, First post here. I used to play Magic for several years. Not seriously, or competitively, but I did enjoy the game and it caused me to branch out into other TCG/CCG games. Duel Masters and The Spoils most heavily after MTG. All along, I have always toyed with the notion of playing an RPG, but never knew anyone who played, nor really understood how to get a game started/play a tabletop RPG.Well many, many, years have passed since my introduction to M:TG and gaming in general. To be honest, I haven't played ANY game in several years now. Not since Tenacious Games went under and The Spoils tcg went dry until AT picked it up. Anyway, about a month ago a friend of mine sent me a random text asking if I would like to play D&D. I was excited about the project and said I would be in to play. Then, nothing ever came of it. In fact, I asked him about it earlier today and he said nothing was ever worked out, he wasn't sure what edition we would be playing, we didn't have enough people, no one really knew what they were doing, etc...It just so happens that the new guy at work (who sits across from me) is a gamer and is the GM for Pathfinder. He brought in his books and let me look them over a bit at work, and answered a series of random questions for me for a few days last week, and again today. My plan is to join his Pathfinder group and play with them. The game looks really fun, and from what I understand, is what a lot of old D&D players went to when 4ed came out. In fact, that is exactly what he, and his group has done. However D&D 5th Ed is now on the market, and I have seen a lot of people saying that "D&D is back" and so forth. Now I have a dilemma. I am thinking since my friends never took the initiative to actually get a game going, that I am in the perfect position to learn how to play RPGs as well as buy into either Pathfinder or D&D 5, and maybe run campaigns for my friend group. I just cannot decide what would be the best way to go. On one hand, since I will be playing Pathfinder with my work friends group, I will have direct access to a GM to ask questions to, so it makes sense to buy books for it. On the other hand, the D&D name "carries more weight" (so-to-speak) with people, so it may be easier to recruit players (especially non seasoned players) to join a D&D group with my friends and I.Anyway, I know that is a rather long introductory post, and I have a LOT of questions (for those willing to help) but I wanted to give all of you an idea of where I am coming from. I look forward to getting to know all of you, and thanks for reading. <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=":)" />-Dave</blockquote>

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