The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Mycanid]

Yes ... the reason I phrased it like that is b/c I did myself as well.

Of course, I did not have the problems associated with being a "lady gamer" simply b/c I am not a lady!

I have often wondered how many early gamers did this. Very few have articulated that they did as such, which has always made me wonder why they did enjoy it as opposed to other things. :\

Hmm ...

[The fungus ponders...]

Tell me ... did you have other interests before your introduction to rpg's that you see helped pave the way for your latching onto the game?

Also, do you see interests that rpg's spawned in you that have held your attention more strongly since then?

Interests that you think it improbable that you would wander across had it not been for the game, I mean?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I was 10 at the time, and that was 1979. There were many other factors which I can see helped my decision to go there (in retrospect of course), but that is basically it in a nutshell.

Wow.

 

[Mycanid]

Uhhh ... wow?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Uhhh ... wow?

Wow in the simplicity of it.

 

[Mycanid]

Hmm ... I have never heard anyone say wow to the simplicity of my expressing ANYthing!

You're a first Fru!

I'm deliberately omitting details, of course....

 

[Goldmoon]

Yes ... the reason I phrased it like that is b/c I did myself as well.

Of course, I did not have the problems associated with being a "lady gamer" simply b/c I am not a lady!

I have often wondered how many early gamers did this. Very few have articulated that they did as such, which has always made me wonder why they did enjoy it as opposed to other things. :\

Hmm ...

[The fungus ponders...]

Tell me ... did you have other interests before your introduction to rpg's that you see helped pave the way for your latching onto the game?

Also, do you see interests that rpg's spawned in you that have held your attention more strongly since then?

Interests that you think it improbable that you would wander across had it not been for the game, I mean?

I dont think I had any interests that helped paved the way for D&D other than wanting to be a stronger person.

D&D opened the door to the SCA where I learned to swordfight which led to my interested in all things mideval. I dont think I would have gotten into any of that otherwise.

I played in a Shadowrun campaing once where one of tha players had a rigger that had an old muscle car. He had all these drawings of it and showed how he modified it. I fell in love with it and that led to my love of muscle cars.

Role playing has sparked other interests in me over the years too but seeing that this is a public forum Ill leave them out.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Hmm ... I have never heard anyone say wow to the simplicity of my expressing ANYthing!

You're a first Fru!

Yeah, I'm weird like that.

 

[Mycanid]

I dont think I had any interests that helped paved the way for D&D other than wanting to be a stronger person.

D&D opened the door to the SCA where I learned to swordfight which led to my interested in all things mideval. I dont think I would have gotten into any of that otherwise.

I played in a Shadowrun campaing once where one of tha players had a rigger that had an old muscle car. He had all these drawings of it and showed how he modified it. I fell in love with it and that led to my love of muscle cars.

Role playing has sparked other interests in me over the years too but seeing that this is a public forum Ill leave them out.

Hmm ... interesting.

Yes ... just as well to leave all the public details out.

Weeeel ... lessee ... my interest in mushrooms came from rpg's. A Marvel superheroes character, in fact, based on the myconid monster in 1eADnD and named Mycanoid - the basis of the screen name and all, actually.

I had an interest in things medieval just before DnD. I also loved Tolkien's work. Both of which were natural dovetails to accepting rpg's and both of which I still love.

I have never really been interested in "things that go vroom" other than getting out of their way. For better or worse, I'm a fairly quiet, one-on-one sorta guy who likes reading, art, history, nature - intellectual, soul-ly kinda stuff (My friends used to joke that it was "elvish" kinda stuff .)

Not too surprisingly the rp'ing aspect appeals to me a whole lot more than the strategy and power-gaming side of things. I was never part of the SCA but loved to go to Ren Faires.

And yes - there are other details inappropriate to put in a public forum as well.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Please! I won't even have to try.

 

[Mycanid]

Wow ... everything went silent as the grave.

Guess that happens in here sometimes.