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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deadsmurf" data-source="post: 5250244" data-attributes="member: 25341">For a long time I knew about thing called roleplaying games, but nobody I knew played them - then I started reading dragonlance books and noticed ads in the back for modules... and wanted them (without really knowing what they were) - but still didn't do anything about it.I started playing magic: the gathering and heard more about this dungeons and dragons thing... but nothing happened still.  Some friends I had in scouts that played a diceless storytelling game (based on star trek) and I wanted to play, so I did - and it was fun enough that I came up with my own superhero version and played it with a friend or two, but the lack of consistency in resolution really irked me, and playing it died pretty quickly.Finally played a little 2nd Ed (almost entirely houseruled based on what I can remember - I mean I played a minotaur wizard with a monocle) with some friends around 97 or 98, but the game fell apart before it got off the ground, and I had the feeling that the DM didn't really KNOW what was around a corner, or what was going to happen, or how to give an adventure hook (and really he still not good at it, but a great player! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />)I got a Vampire: the Masquerade quickstart rules book and ran that for a short time and it was a lot of fun, and tried cobble together the full rules without the rulebook, and I think we only lasted about a month playing that vampire thing!I had a couple encounters with D&D 3.0 (playing a samurai, then a barbarian) in some one offs that I was randomly invited to.  Then finally in 2002 at 19 I decided "we need to fricking play some roleplaying games" - and my roommate and some friends decided to download the BESM rules (followed by their d20 rules)I started buying miniatures that summer, and books started appearing on my shelf shortly after (thanks mom!), and have been playing since.So, short version, basically it's friends that brought me in, but it was a very stop and go process - I really with my friend was a better dm when he was 12 or I probably would have started playing regularly then!</blockquote>

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