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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razjah" data-source="post: 6129674" data-attributes="member: 98806">I started with 4e. Well, really I started role playing when I was little and played with my brother in our back yard acting out the coolest scenes from Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, Power Rangers, and anything else that caught our fancy. I learned to play Magic around 8-9 and how to actually play around 10. I started going to game stores around 13 or 14 when the local card shop (it was mostly sports collectibles) closed up. When I was going to game stores I started learning about other types of games. I didn't play in an RPG until I was 18 and 4e had just come out. I thought it was awesome and sought out gamers in college. By my sophomore year I was president of a role playing games club and leading a group of people getting together for Magic. I learned 3.5, found Iron Heroes (love the no-magic feel), and then helped get games for the club (Mutants and Masterminds, Savage Worlds, Mouse Guard, Star Wars Saga Edition, and Corporation then added Vampire and Og plus some GM focused books from Engine Publishing). I tried to read about gaming as much as I could so that I could help bring information to the weekly discussions. I have been primarily a GM since the start of my second year gaming. Which was mostly because I had to run games as president, and because I like to be a GM. Most other GMs don't seem to run the types of games I prefer and I feel like I do a lot of sitting around waiting during combats.By the time I graduated I found that really enjoyed character driven games like Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard. I enjoy D&D games, but I often feel like I am playing the GM's Game. In games like Mouse Guard and even D&D where the GM lets the players have a lot of input in the world, it becomes Our Game*. I also have moved away from really crunchy games (well, I try to) but my current group seems to really love them.  I am currently playing in a Dresden Files game and seem to be the only one who isn't fawning over the FATE system and the upcoming FATE Core. Its pretty good though, I enjoy the game enough to want to keep going and I get along well with the group.</blockquote>

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