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<blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 1451338" data-attributes="member: 771"><p>Similar threads have popped up once or twice before, and there's generally been a fair number of people in your boat. I was one of them for years. </p><p></p><p>I've been collecting and reading D&D stuff since I was about 8 (around 1983). We played the very occasional one-shot that went nowhere in the first five years or so after that. Then we started a FR campaign that ran through much of junior high and the beginning of high school. After that, I went a few years without playing, then had two or three short campaigns in college (about a semester each). After college, I worked for a year in Boston, played briefly in one game and then just as briefly resurrected my old FR game for a month and half before moving to Seattle. I didn't know any other gamers there, and so didn't play at all while I lived there, except for a single one-shot one weekend when I was visiting back here in Boston. I got married and moved back to Boston right at the end of summer/beginning of fall 2000 as 3e was coming out and it took over a year before I had a game up and running. So that was about 3 years of reading but not playing, except for that one-shot.</p><p></p><p>Now, I finally get my gaming fill. My regular D&D group has been meeting every 3-4 weeks for the past couple of years, and thanks to meeting folks from EN World, I occassionally get to play other games as well. Currently, in addition to my regular campaign (homebrew), I'm running a short story arc of Dark Sun for a few folks from here and a few from my regular group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davelozzi, post: 1451338, member: 771"] Similar threads have popped up once or twice before, and there's generally been a fair number of people in your boat. I was one of them for years. I've been collecting and reading D&D stuff since I was about 8 (around 1983). We played the very occasional one-shot that went nowhere in the first five years or so after that. Then we started a FR campaign that ran through much of junior high and the beginning of high school. After that, I went a few years without playing, then had two or three short campaigns in college (about a semester each). After college, I worked for a year in Boston, played briefly in one game and then just as briefly resurrected my old FR game for a month and half before moving to Seattle. I didn't know any other gamers there, and so didn't play at all while I lived there, except for a single one-shot one weekend when I was visiting back here in Boston. I got married and moved back to Boston right at the end of summer/beginning of fall 2000 as 3e was coming out and it took over a year before I had a game up and running. So that was about 3 years of reading but not playing, except for that one-shot. Now, I finally get my gaming fill. My regular D&D group has been meeting every 3-4 weeks for the past couple of years, and thanks to meeting folks from EN World, I occassionally get to play other games as well. Currently, in addition to my regular campaign (homebrew), I'm running a short story arc of Dark Sun for a few folks from here and a few from my regular group. [/QUOTE]
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