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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 5767706" data-attributes="member: 59411">I started with my friend's 3e home brew, entirely online via mIRC and FreeDraw, back in the early 2000s. It was my first real campaign, as before that I'd more or less just dabbled with the random 2e books my parents bought me every Christmas (which was always fun and exciting, how to make the odd supplements work on top of my 1996 starter set [I still have it, and yes, still listen to that cheesy CD sometimes and laugh]). I'd run my dad, or my brothers, through rules-bonkers scenarios, but nothing cohesive.Back to 3e, I started out as a half-elf druid who accidentally ended up queen of the human empire, after comforting a man on a balcony who turned out to be the crown prince. Go figure. My second character in that campaign was more motivated by frustration, as the PC dragon disciple barbarian or whatever he was had built his character in such a way it was broken, broken, broken. His grossly better skills and combat prowess left a lot of us feeling inadequate (though, idiot that I was, I never checked a forum to see if I could make a druid more powerful in 3e... lol, well, I was young and the prestige class synergies didn't quite make sense to me). So I rolled up a ranger arcane archer (again, what did I know hehe) and earned a magic bow string which gave me the equivalent to a +5 bow with added enchantments... but even then I didn't measure up. We finished the campaign with my PC and the disciple's PC as bitter rivals and I kind of wondered if the system was for me or not, spurring jealousy, frustration, and competition in building skills as it had.Still, it was the only game my friends played and were running, and I ran a few short-lived (but quite fun) campaign start ups of my own in 3.5e, levels 1 - 6. Around 2005 I actually managed to stick a campaign, which lasted 2 1/2 years and took the group from 1 to 18. I learned to LOVE DMing and pretty much hate the edition I DMed in. Some players were build-minded, others entirely rp minded, and still others a crossbreed, but towards the end we kind of found a happy medium enough to close out the game. People came and went, but the majority stayed on for an epic demonic climax in the northlands. Good times, good times.Congruently, I played in a Ravenloft game as one of my favorite characters of all time: Brak. He was a chaotic evil imp wizard and servant of Asmodeus trying to earn favor with Big A by wresting power in Barovia from Strahd. He was crude, conniving, filthy of mouth and much filthier of deed (the game definitely ran into the NC-17 category). Not your typical Ravenloft experience, but so much fun.By the end of my 3.5e campaign, 4e had come out and I immediately jumped on ship, as did all my players and friends. I began a home brew game at the tail end of 2008 which I'm still running today, which I guess makes it, besides a 3 month hiatus, a 4 year endeavor. We're just now getting to Epic. I've played around 120 6-8 hour sessions with one group, and an additional 25-30 6-8 hour sessions with a side group, completely online via mIRC and Maptool. I can honestly say it feels as if this edition was build specifically to my needs. I tried playing in a few 4e games run by friends, and though I did have fun, various group drama and my own time constraints and child-like attention span for anything I'm not actively creating sort of ruined that. I'm kind of a problem player, anyway, always pushing the button or inciting group conflict for fun's sake. I do make for a memorable PC, though, as friends who recognize the name Preyth know well. He was my longest go at a 4e PC, level 1 - 6 or 7.</blockquote>

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