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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkMaster" data-source="post: 1444804" data-attributes="member: 16362">Well I almost don't tell anybody. That is why I got isolated and didn't play for around 5-6 years, when I lost my previous group.My brother-in-law which was playing a lot of RPG computer games, decided to get interested and buy the 3.5 books. My sister told him that I've been playing the game for years and that he should talk about it with me. He was very surprised to see that I was a gamer, and even more that I always played as a DM. He never taught that I could be interested RPG. Before that he wasn't talking too much with me, He saw me as a very rational computer engineer without imagination. Now we have a very good relation. So we started a group with him, his brother, my sister, my wife and another friend. I always hid it from others in the past and still have a lot of problem admiting it to colleagues (after all I am a 30 years old father and shouldn't be playing that game).I regret it a bit, I could have played for the last 5-6 years, would have I done otherwise. For example I talked about it to a guy at work and 10 minutes later he passed at my office telling me that if I needed players, he would join.I guess all that comes from high school, where it was only the geek and the weird playing that game. In high school I was playing basket ball and the other players might have laugh at me. There was also the girl factor, Lots of the girl I was interested in would have find me weird. So I kept that to me and played with my old friend from elementary school.But I think that things changed now. Last time I went to the hobby shop I saw a few 12-16 year old girl looking at the RPG Book It was a complete shock for me(they didn't look geeky at all). I could beleive it, one of them was explaning to her father the game and that she was playing a barbarian and the father was listening to her (my dad would have told me that I am crazy). I think the general view of RPG has evolved a lot thanks to video game. When I was young my parents were scared that I would commit suicide or become a murderer. Now parent would see RPG as a very good alternative to video game, where their child can let their imagination loose and without hardcore graphic violence. I personally can't wait for my son to be old enough to start playing. All that to say that I am still stuck inside with that old way of thinking that RPG are for geeks and I have a very hard time "coming out of the closet"</blockquote>

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