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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6251983" data-attributes="member: 11697">Compared to many folks around here, I'm kinda new to D&D (and all RPGs) since I didn't actually play the game till sometime in 2000. I was introduced to it by a good friend in college (first time she invited me over she had a 3e PHB sitting on the bed in her dorm room), and with her as the metaphorical crack-dealer I joined a game shortly thereafter.Now that was not my first introduction to the game, but only the first time I played, and the first time anyone actually explained it all to me. My first introduction was of course the 1980's D&D cartoon, and the mid-80s AD&D 'Endless Quest' books. At some point in the 80's I also did character creation at a friend's house though we never actually started a game, but I did end up buying a copy of the MM2 at the local Waldenbooks because it just looked cool. But I tucked it under my arm and didn't want my mom to see it because of all of the 'it leads children to Satan worship!' panic from the time period (and yeah, my mom did ask me 'That's not something you shouldn't have is it?'). I think that book got sold at the next garage sale we had. I truly don't know. But at least for a month or so it was amazingly awesome to look at and just get inspired by the monsters.Fast forward a bit to 2000 again. Around the time I started playing 3e I also discovered both Baldur's Gate II and Planescape: Torment. Both were awesome, and the latter made me seek out 2e Planescape material with the joy of a child opening presents on Christmas morning. Within a few years I'd played in a few very abortive FR games (dysfunctional group), a horrendous 'Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil' campaign (horrible DM), and a really enjoyable FR/Planescape/Homebrew mashup. I think around 2002/2003 I started running a game over the Xmas holiday with the players in that RttToEE campaign as a oneshot. Well... the "oneshot" ran for the next three years, the RttToEE game never restarted, and since then I've played in a number of 3e and 3.5 games, as well as a large amount of Shadowrun and a few other assorted systems.In grad school, around 2004 I think, while running that Planescape campaign I started writing fiction just on a lark, and shortly thereafter started my first Storyhour here on Enworld, and a little after that I tried pitching material to Dragon magazine. The Storyhour is I think well over 1-2k pages in Word last I checked, and still ongoing (it's about 40% through that campaign now). At some point Wes Schneider at Paizo wrote a tiny bit of my storyhour fanon regarding the fate of Mercykiller Factol Alisohn Nilesia into an article he worked on in Dragon. I emailed him and then pitched a ton of stuff their way. Eventually a few things got picked up in both Dragon and Dungeon, and then once the magazine's ended their printed incarnation I started writing material for Paizo's Golarion setting, both the 3.5 and Pathfinder version. I've also done a number of 3PP things for PF as well.Because of D&D I have an amazing hobby and it pointed me into what has been a damn fun second job at times with freelance work, plus pushing me to write more straight up fiction. Plus as it turns out, my wife and I ran across each other at an NC Gameday around a year before we were introduced by some mutual friends. She also made it into Dragon magazine herself a number of years prior to me. It has provided me and my friends a metric ton of enjoyment, many laughs, one point where I made my players actually cry at the table (and threaten to hurt me over an NPC's actions), and just been a really awesome and enriching thing in my life.[ATTACH]60380[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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