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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farcaster" data-source="post: 3413941" data-attributes="member: 48125">My first introduction to roleplaying games was actually a very old computer game called Bard’s Tale. Yes, I am talking about the original Bard’s Tale first released in 1985 for the Commodore 64. I was hooked right from the start. Bard’s Tale II couldn’t come quickly enough. And when Bard’s Tale III finally came out in 1987, I remember opening that box and leaping head first into a three day straight summer whirlwind playing session fueled by an endless stream of coffee, punctuated by the briefest of bathroom breaks (hey, it was a lot of coffee), and ending only after unconsciousness nat-20'd me.When I awoke from my 24 hour powernap, believe it or not, it was actually my stepfather that suggested I try out this pen and paper game called Dungeons and Dragons. Being a typical 12 year old, I thought that any suggestion that he might make was probably pretty dumb, but I checked it out anyway just to see what he was talking about.Knowing nothing of D&D, I headed down to a hobby and gaming shop the next time I was at the mall and found this nifty red box set. I thought the dice were cool, so I bought it on the spot. Within a week, I ran my first D&D game and promptly killed my first player character with the sample encounter with the carrion crawler. A not altogether awe-inspiring first start in the DM chair, actually. But, I kept trying.Since I lived in a relatively small city, I usually ended up enrolling my friends to try out the game and so inflicted upon my hapless players many an ill conceived, poorly contrived dungeon hack-and-slash. I’d love to say that I took to story telling right off, but honestly, it took many years before I could actual spin a fairly tolerable story line. Luckily, none of my players had ever been in a good D&D game, so they didn’t know any better anyway.Thus began my obsession with table-top roleplaying games. Though I have had the occasional opportunity to be a player, for the most part I’ve been in the DM chair ever since. To be completely honest, I do enjoy playing, but I’m most comfortable being the story teller anyway.More on my introduction thread at Pen & Paper Games: <a href="http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127" target="_blank">http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127</a></blockquote>

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