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<blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 2220039" data-attributes="member: 15582">raise three fingers ...I was at a Boy Scout camp and some older kids were talking about flaming swords and &quot;orcs,&quot; whatever those were supposed to be. I was 13 and my main reading at that point had been Shakespeare, Jules Verne and Heinlien. Not much fantasy.I tried making my own dungeon that night. Lots of long cave tunnels, which my &quot;mentor&quot; corrected by making into a matrix of rooms that shared most of their walls with their neighbors. I guess I was leaning towards &quot;storytelling&quot; and &quot;ecology&quot; style rpgs even before I knew it as compared to hack n' slash.Bought the red box mail order from Sears and Roebuck later that year and started running my own games in 1984 as a high school freshman. I also found a paperbook set of LOTR in my grandparent's library. Which is strange since the whole family was always going on about being practical and &quot;realistic&quot; when I started my writing career.As an aside, I had a freind who got in with Vampire and later asked me how does leveling work. I told him that instead of spending XP as you get it, you basically save it up for while and then it gets &quot;spent&quot; all at once to increase several aspect of your charater all at once (this was back in AD&amp;D).&quot;Wierd,&quot; he said. Made me realize that AD&amp;D (and D&amp;D in general ) wasn't as &quot;intuitive&quot; as some supporters claim.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Von Ether, post: 2220039, member: 15582"] [b]raise three fingers ...[/b] I was at a Boy Scout camp and some older kids were talking about flaming swords and "orcs," whatever those were supposed to be. I was 13 and my main reading at that point had been Shakespeare, Jules Verne and Heinlien. Not much fantasy. I tried making my own dungeon that night. Lots of long cave tunnels, which my "mentor" corrected by making into a matrix of rooms that shared most of their walls with their neighbors. I guess I was leaning towards "storytelling" and "ecology" style rpgs even before I knew it as compared to hack n' slash. Bought the red box mail order from Sears and Roebuck later that year and started running my own games in 1984 as a high school freshman. I also found a paperbook set of LOTR in my grandparent's library. Which is strange since the whole family was always going on about being practical and "realistic" when I started my writing career. As an aside, I had a freind who got in with Vampire and later asked me how does leveling work. I told him that instead of spending XP as you get it, you basically save it up for while and then it gets "spent" all at once to increase several aspect of your charater all at once (this was back in AD&D). "Wierd," he said. Made me realize that AD&D (and D&D in general ) wasn't as "intuitive" as some supporters claim. [/QUOTE]

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