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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9608490" data-attributes="member: 19675">Sometimes, discussions about the hobby’s community are slightly puzzling to me.I got started playing AD&D in 1977 in Aurora, CO, playing with other kids.  Just a couple years later, I was in Manhattan, KS, with (unbeknownst to me) a completely different type of gaming community- still mostly kids, but also more college stimulants and members of the Army.  In Manhattan, I got exposed to TFT/ITL, Traveller, and a bunch of board games like Starfire, Star Fleet Battles, and a bunch of other Metagaming & AH stuff.Even when shopping in the hobby stores in cities like Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence and KC, it wasn’t until 1982 in Dallas/Fort Worth that I actually saw another major RPG in stores or people who played them.  And even so, the community was small & insular.And it was another 8 years before I got seriously involved in playing more than a half-dozen systems, largely because of “Henchworld” in Austin, TX.  Even though we played a lot of systems, discussions were rarely about the strengths & weaknesses, just what someone wanted to run next and why.So the big raging discussions about the hobby itself were pretty alien to me until I joined ENWorld!And to be fair, I still don’t see much in-depth discussion about the merits of one game or system over another in meatspace.  My longest running game groups (which overlapped) rarely considered playing anything beyond D&D.  (And non-D&D games didn’t last long.)</blockquote>

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