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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bigeshu" data-source="post: 6129513" data-attributes="member: 53682">I first encountered gaming in middle school when I overheard people talking about slaying orcs in the back of a math class. I asked about it and was told to mind my own business or that I would not understand. That was the end of that.Fast forward to high school when a friend introduced me to Baldur's Gate and then told me about the game that it was based on. He introduced me to AD&D and I was hooked. I bought up a lot of the cheaper modules and adventure settings from my FLGS; Hollow Earth, Red Steel, Dark Sun, and played the Gold Box games. We moved on to 3.0 just as I started gaming and a guy I knew introduced me to Vampire and L5R and that's when my interest took off.I preferred the narrative games my girlfriend liked and came to appreciate telling big stories and creating moral choices. This continued all the way through college where most of my game groups were classmates with shared interest.I had a falling out with some friends though at that time as most of us moved away or moved on, some dropped out, but I kept on keeping on. Pounds of dice, new games, new supplements for old games, New groups. I never really got out of it. Even when I got into WoW, EQ2, and now GW2 (not at the same time, in that order).You'll note that I don't talk alot about my social life outside of gaming and that's because I realize now that I've ignored a lot of the things going on in my town and home preferring gaming. For a while, before working on my own Kickstarter funded rpg, I was worried that to enjoy life I'd have to give up gaming. I realized that that was hogwash and that I could enjoy gaming and live a full life if I just partook in the things around me in moderation.So yeah, gaming for nearly two decades now and still going strong.</blockquote>

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