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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 5250646" data-attributes="member: 18363">In high school I became interested in anime, and around graduation joined a local anime club that met weekly at a semi-local gaming / anime / comics store. However, I tended to arrive an hour or so early and generally read various fantasy and science fiction novels in the meeting room while waiting. Right before our group met a gaming group met in the same room, but it was big enough that my sitting on a couch near the opposite side of the room was not an issue to them at the gaming table. So my introduction was mostly via overhearing the last hour or so a 3 hour meeting of a gaming group, once a week for about a year - after which I started buying a few of the books at the store to have a better idea of what they were talking about and out of a general interest developing in world building and rpgs in general. This was just before 3e came out. I recall buying the player's guide for D&D - and then a few weeks later seeing a totally new edition (3e) now displayed. So after about a month I bought that one as well. About the time psionics for 3e was first coming out I joined my first rpg group. That group lasted about 2/3 of a year as I recall, after which the DM moved (was in the army, got sent to another state), and I joined another group, but differences of play style (a strong DM vs player style) caused me to leave that one about a half year later (after about 6 or 7 character deaths, as I recall, although everyone had gone through at least 3 or 4 character deaths by then, generating a new character each time). After that I didn't have as much trouble with gaming groups, but about a year before 4e came out I more or less faded out of the hobby. Most of those I gamed with had moved out of the hobby or moved out of state, and real life was starting to intrude more and more often. Now days I still world build, still sometimes create scenarios, creatures, or characters just for the fun of it as an idea pops into my head, still buy the occasional rpg book (such as all 3 core pathfinder books), but I generally don't play much these days: just the occasional one shot.</blockquote>

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