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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6129142" data-attributes="member: 52734">Mostly, what has been the affect of gaming on your life socially?My dad showed me a news spot on the game (back when that kid got lost in the pipes, I believe - they were showing some 3D dungeon setups at Gencon, I believe).  I asked for the game for Christmas, got it and two boxes of lead minis.  I was in 3rd grade, about 9 years old.  Until about high school, I played with school friends at lunch and we didn't pay attention to the rules or use dice back then.  I learned a good bit of computer programming in those days, trying to emulate games like Dungeon of Daggeroth, Zork and the like.  My masterpiece back in the early 80's, when I was in 7th grade was Danger in Halbard Forest, an Apple ][ program that was about 32 pages of dot-matrix paper length code.I started getting "serious" about the game in 9th grade, just as Unearthed Arcana was coming out.  New group, and I started learning the rules.  However, it wasn't until I moved to Mississippi and started college that I hit my "peak", with a 2E game that lasted over two years and saw the characters hit about 15th level.  I had a few more campaigns and groups after that time, and was lucky enough to marry a wife who enjoys playing RPGs.During all this time, I was the DM about 95% or more of the time.Somewhere in the 90's, I started getting tired of playing just (A)D&D (2E).  For about two years, I switched to playing Vampire, though I still collected a lot of D&D.  I eventually managed to get an adventure published for D&D in Dungeon magazine (#78, The Winter Tapestry).  About two months later, TSR went bankrupt <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />I sort of took a D&D gaming holiday after that and started picking up other RPGs, like 7th sea, L5R and the like.When 3E came out, I got a new group and started playing once again.  I've been steadily playing since then, though I do occasionally play other systems - now sometimes actually as a player instead of always as the GM, and after the 'end of 3E' did a lot of Vampire again with my new group, and some Pathfinder.I've always been a shy and somewhat reclusive person who likes to sit alone with a book or comic than be out and about with others.  One of my favorite things to do (before my body started to betray me) was hide in a secluded spot half-way up a tree and just daydream about stories I'd like to write.  I never did go out dating or any of that sort of stuff, and didn't even have a car or job until I was 21 - I just spend my time doing schoolwork or D&D.  Once I did hit 21, I started looking back at how I'd spent my time sheltered away from what was going on around me and started to creep out of my shell.  Not much, but enough to get married, have a career and have two wonderful kids - who are now well on their way to becoming gamers too.Personally, now that I'm 42, I tend to see RPGs take up less and less of my time.  I still like to daydream (a lot), but RPGs are no longer the primary way I share my imagination with others.  I don't think I'll completely ever get away from them - I've got over six shelves full of them - but they don't take nearly as much of my time as they once did.</blockquote>

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