Greetings!
Hi, I’ve lurked on EnWorld for a while, but the message about how I’ve never posted yet always made me feel a little guilty, so here I am introducing myself.
I’m really interested in D&D, the latest 3.5 incarnation in particular. My route to D&D was a little circuituous- I was interested as a child, but my parents were full of fearful warnings. This was during the peak of the anti-D&D movement, with BADD still being taken seriously and so forth. Out of respect for their wishes I left it alone.
Several years after I got married, my wife and I picked up Neverwinter Nights, so we’d have a game we could play together. (She’d never played many computer games before she met me, and is now an avid gamer. I consider this a success story.) We got involved in a role playing oriented NWN persistent world, to the degree that we were invited to DM for the community, which was great fun. It was actually one of the players there who first made me aware of EnWorld. Even now, my knowledge of D&D rules has a few quirks that came from learning them first through a CRPG adaptation. After our first child was born we moved on, so we’d have time to take care of the little critter, but found that we still craved roleplaying opportunities. So we hooked up with a few local D&D enthusiasts through a university sci-fi/fantasy club and hosted a game night at our place, so we could put our little girl to bed and keep playing. It was so much fun that we’ve kept it up since then, and recently, I’ve been thrust into the role of DM. This is scary, because this is my first shot at it, but the players are all old school roleplayers from 2nd and even 1st edition times. But it seems to be working out all right, and it’s turning out to be a great family hobby. My players are all a little jealous- none of their wives are interested in playing, while mine is playing a rogue/psion and having a great time. So I feel pretty lucky, and I’m having a great time. (I do miss playing, though.)
