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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 6129633" data-attributes="member: 13703">I think my 'Gamer Journey' started with my love for Choose Your Own Adventure books as a young kid.  I then discovered a Lone Wolf book at the library when I was in Year 8 (about 13yo).  I was reading it in home group one morning when my teacher noticed what I was reading and asked if I had heard of D&D.I think I had heard of it at that point, but didn't know much about it beyond the fact that it was fantasy based.  She (yep, she) offered to DM a game for me and my friends at lunch-time once a week.  It was at that point that I discovered a couple of my friends had played D&D before, as well as Werewolf, Vampire and Top Secret.The lunch-time campaign only lasted a few months (I think she ran us through the Hidden Shrine of the Tamoachan), but that was more than enough to get me hooked.  One of my other friends ran some short lived White Wolf campaigns before I was introduced into the game store in the city and joined a D&D campaign there.That campaign went through many different players and DM's, but I played in it regularly every second Saturday for most of high school.  All but one of my friends lost interest in gaming by the middle of high school (a couple even thought it was a bit childish that I still gamed), but that didn't phase me.  I was still into it more than ever.I stopped playing in my final year of high school at my parent's request to concentrate on my schoolwork (they had a fair enough point).  After high school I went to university, but didn't find a gaming group for a couple of years (Australian universities aren't really gaming hubs like US colleges seem to be).It wasn't until around the age of 20 that I happened upon another group through a friend of a friend.  This group lasted for a couple of years, playing Ars Magica, Harn and some homebrewed systems.  I dropped out of that group when I started a graduate diploma while working full-time (something had to give).It took another couple of years before I finally decided I'd been gameless long enough and put together a new group, DM'ing for the first time ever.  That group lasted 3 months before imploding over my ruling that a Paladin PC lost his powers for killing a drunk on the street that lunged at him with a dagger (ending my friendship of several year with the player of the Paladin at the same time).About a year after that I put together another group, made up of a mix of old gamer friends and strangers who'd answered my 'Players Wanted' notice in a gaming store.  I've now been DM'ing that group for 7 years.That group has still had a few bumps and breaks along the way.  There were 2 hiatuses after my wife gave birth to my 2 daughters and another when 2 players left the group after a dispute with another player.  The group is still going strong though.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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