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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8561603" data-attributes="member: 6775477">Not today Russia! Just kidding <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Grew up with classic RPGs on the NES (Zelda, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy), played Heroquest, and watched the D&amp;D cartoon. My older brother wouldn't let me join his D&amp;D group, so I made my own RPG based on what I remembered from the 1E PHB and these games. His DM interrupted one of my &quot;sessions&quot; with my friends, and was impressed with my passion. Not only did he immediately invite me to his game (to my brothers ire), but he planned to apprentice me to become a DM (a necessity back in the day). When he left town, he bequeathed his suitcase of rulebooks and adventures, and I completely took over. I ran 1E until we could no longer hold out against 2E, but eventually just mashed the two together. In college I reverted to just being a player, largely playing in 2E Forgotten Realms, but also some homebrew. I dabbled with running 3E when it came out, but I was primarily running Legend of the Five Rings RPG. During this time, I continued to play in 3E and alternated GMing L5R. I only ran 4E in an attempt to convince another group to switch, but they chose Pathfinder instead. I tried to like 4E because of how much I had come to hate 3E, but it was just a different hate. We switched back to 2E until the D&amp;D Next playtest, where we went full bore 5E. I returned to DMing, and alternated with other DMs for 5-6 years. I began a hiatus about 5-6 months ago, and of course the itch to DM has returned. I've got a mini-campaign set to run after our high level game ends (giving the DM time to prep the next campaign), and an idea for a full campaign once one of the DMs is ready for a break.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 8561603, member: 6775477"] Not [B][I][B]today[/B][/I][/B] Russia! Just kidding ;) Grew up with classic RPGs on the NES (Zelda, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy), played Heroquest, and watched the D&D cartoon. My older brother wouldn't let me join his D&D group, so I made my own RPG based on what I remembered from the 1E PHB and these games. His DM interrupted one of my "sessions" with my friends, and was impressed with my passion. Not only did he immediately invite me to his game (to my brothers ire), but he planned to apprentice me to become a DM (a necessity back in the day). When he left town, he bequeathed his suitcase of rulebooks and adventures, and I completely took over. I ran 1E until we could no longer hold out against 2E, but eventually just mashed the two together. In college I reverted to just being a player, largely playing in 2E Forgotten Realms, but also some homebrew. I dabbled with running 3E when it came out, but I was primarily running Legend of the Five Rings RPG. During this time, I continued to play in 3E and alternated GMing L5R. I only ran 4E in an attempt to convince another group to switch, but they chose Pathfinder instead. I tried to like 4E because of how much I had come to hate 3E, but it was just a different hate. We switched back to 2E until the D&D Next playtest, where we went full bore 5E. I returned to DMing, and alternated with other DMs for 5-6 years. I began a hiatus about 5-6 months ago, and of course the itch to DM has returned. I've got a mini-campaign set to run after our high level game ends (giving the DM time to prep the next campaign), and an idea for a full campaign once one of the DMs is ready for a break. [/QUOTE]

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