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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 1167161" data-attributes="member: 1016">And I should tell you that two are blessed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> To give a better idea, of my experiences...In college, when we played mostly Mage, it was all about deep questions and storytelling. But when I left for the "real world" it was a completely different expereince.First job was in the middle of nowhere, 4 hours to find a city that had a skyline and nothing inbetween. To quote the store owner in my town, "My PC has no family or friends, they all died. I only think about the money." ... "Roleplaying is that thing you do like in Indiana Jones, where if you don't figure out the tiles on the floor, you fall through." Direct quotes, my man. And other direct quote from a fellow player of that time after he left town to go back to college. "Man, people really do play the game like you ran it, Von!! It's cool this way!! I wanted to try it before, but I was afraid 'the' group would kick me out. The store owner already didn't like you."My next job, same thing. Hardly any gamers and they all wanted D&D. Then I moved to a bigger town and d20 hit the shelves. But I am living in a studio (not a flat) so my bedroom and living room are the same area. I ran my games at the game store. Best quote from that experince: "I bought the book, I don't have to read it."So at the game store, I went from "Hide all my dice rolls and lets tell a story" to "Here's the die rolls, tough luck, next fight." So as of this weekend, I wrapped up a decent hack n'slash campaign (nope, didn't use d20). People said it was great and then I annouced that I am quiting GMing for while. Among other things, I am waiting for my new job to save up enough cash to get a real apartment and then I'll have invite only games ... maybe. I still play and I am currently in two games ... where both GM's have just pulled out old D&D modules (Slaver lords being one) and converted them so that we can now go trudging through more long halls and kill spit. yeah storytelling </blockquote>

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