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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boethermsbrukan" data-source="post: 6454294" data-attributes="member: 6786578">GameOgre, good evening to you!Thanks for the shoulderbump and the thumbs-up; I've been gaming longer than I've been full-steam-ahead in science-fiction fandom in general and I know that there are always going to be folks who don't think the same way you do or, in terms of gaming, don't game the same way you do. But isn't that the wonderful thing about creative roleplay! That basic fact is what keeps gaming going, I think, mainly because it kept it interesting and captured, focussed and inspired the imagination of players who were involved all the way back to Chainmail-with-fireballs and Avalon Hill, up to folks like me who started their journey with AD&D 2nd Ed. (and in my case as well, Palladium Fantasy and Rifts and Werewolf: the Apocalypse) in the late 1980s, and twenty years later the gaming community is still attracting and enthusing new blood.I think I've managed to measure how much I love tabletop gaming in recent years by how I've kept it close to my heart without ever having a regular gaming group for most of those years. I love imagining and doing things with those imaginings. You feel like you're sharing in the creation the designers of the games you love put into print and fostering a bit of it yourself. You're totally right about keeping at it; like anything that means something to you it's important to stick by it.I would love to be part of a regular gaming group someday; I still find it odd that here in the largest city in Canada I've continued to find it difficult to find anybody at all I know or meet who games with any great interest or frequency. That's why I was excited about the gaming store I mentioned having opened up in the last couple of years (I've been looking into it from a couple of months ago when I found out about it 'til now) right on the main east-west subway line here, and having an open game night with organized Pathfinder play every second Sunday. I'd been looking at a fair bit of material available online for PF and the Society and while having no sit-down experience with Pathfinder, it seemed like as good a place as any to start. Thank you for saying that, GameOgre, and thank you for being a kind open ear. If gaming didn't mean anything to me it would mean nothing to say it, but I know how much I love gaming and I doubt I'll ever give roleplaying up where and as what I am. I noticed that when I was learning my way through 3.5 (I initially bought the 3.5 Player's Handbook at one of my last conventions in 2004, and then the 3.5 Shelf Set (Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual in a bookend)) which I'd seen on sale at the local game shop across town from me that hosted the D&D 30th Anniversary game sessions. Hee, I still have my pro bono polyhedrals, miniatures and two branded mechanical pencils from that. That was a real blast, to be in a gaming group if only for that afternoon. I wish at the time I'd had the nerve to ask if anyone there had a group with a free seat.Mind you, I've done most of my drawings in the last several years with one of those pencils or the other. I can't complain! ^_^I agree completely. My imagination is ready and waiting for such an outlet; I'm hoping that attending a couple of months' worth of those Pathfinder sessions might lead to something along those lines, but at least I'll be actively playing a recurring session for the first time in a while! ^_^Thank you for the wishing of good luck, too; I'll be hoping for the best, and thank you for hoping with me. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance!-Boe.</blockquote>

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