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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randomeric" data-source="post: 6130496" data-attributes="member: 6679732">I started at about the age of 12.  My best friend at the time got me started.  AD&D hadn't come out yet and we had the small box set.  White Dwarf was a general RPG magazine (not the Games Workshop catalog it has become today) and was that funky tall size that was normal in England at the time I am sure.Our dungeons were just a set of rooms that filled the graph paper.  Random encounters in every one of them.  We played at the age we were at and as I matured so did my gaming.One of my early characters was a Cleric/Magic-User who had psionics.  I ended up in a psionic battle with Orcus and nearly won.  I am sure we were very liberal with the rules!Later on in High School, one of my favorite characters was a bard in a one-on-one game my friend Tom ran.  The bard at that time could do very little.  But playing for coin at the inns and fending off the hijix of the local faeries, was very fun.My gaming group was a loyal set of High School friends who stayed that way until I left town for college.Palladium, TMNT, and Bushido were games we branched into.  Oh, Gamma World and Top Secret.I don't recall any social 'stigma,' but that could have been me being naively unaware.  It is nice not to care what other people think sometimes.I lost track of gaming and picked it up again as I moved around.I ended up in Cumberland, Md and found a few local guys to game with.  2nd ed D&D by then.It wasn't until I hit Florida in 1998 that I really got back into it.  D&D 2nd and 3rd, as well as Shadowrun, Werewolf the Apocalypse, Fading Suns, Silver Age Sentinels, some online stuff (City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, WoW, Rift, and some other FTP).Now, with the help of my friend Brent, I have launched a few modest games of my own.When I got married three years ago, I managed to have found a girl who, though not a serious gamer herself, understood my passions.In short, I ran down the isle in my tux wearing a super man cape.  My nephew conducted the ceremony while holding my old 1st ed D&D Players Handbook (the ceremony tucked in the pages).I have pictures to prove it.I play two nights a week, playing and running games.I write a bit of fiction and look forward one day to spending more time on games than this day job thing.  Either I'll get lucky (with some hard work) or another 15 years goes by and I can retire.Either way, it's been a good ride and I'd do it all over again!</blockquote>

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