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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 9364417" data-attributes="member: 67296">I’ll give this a go too. I’ll try to keep it brief…Started by playing live-action roleplaying games (larp). Then my friends invited me to this tabletop game that was like a larp but without the « live action » part of larp. Turned out to be (A)D&D, with 2E fresh out the presses. I played at the community center after school.Then we started our own games (still 2E AD&D) in my parent’s basement. It really picked up when we reached 16 and got our licences. Where I come from, your closest friend is 1-hour bike ride away through steep hills so a car is a necessity for any kind of social life. We played through our last year of high school and college (which, for anyone outside Quebec, is a kind of mashup of senior high-school and freshman-year college).Then I moved to a small university town and found a new group at the gaming club. Those were the years of Skills and Powers and we had a lot of fun with it, despite the sneering about customization. These were also the V;tM days, because 90s.3e came along and was highly praised for its high degree of customization, mostly by the same people who sneered on Skills and Powers. I avoided 3e out of spite, I think.Then I moved to another university (where I still work to this day) and joined a new group. They were playing 3.5 and I fell in love with it. It was the homebrewer’s paradise edition! That lasted a while until I had a serious case of system fatigue. Around that time 4e was announced. I was expecting a slight rebalance along the lines of Star Wars Saga edition. It wasn’t. I was disappointed and turned off by the presentation of 4e. It also coincided with the toddler-years of my kids and couldn’t really find time to play. I experimented a lot with making my own rpg(s) however.Finally, through work, I met new friends and joined a new group, with 5e fresh out of the presses. I really, really liked the design of 5e (and still do) and we’ve been playing ever since (along with a few more RPG), now with our then-toddlers-now-turned-young-adults kids. There we go - all caught up…</blockquote>

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