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<blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9523143" data-attributes="member: 7044459">For me, TTRPGs feel like an evolution of something I've always enjoyed. I like telling stories with friends.As a little kid on the grade school playground, my friends and I would pretend to be characters from video games or cartoons and act out little stories we'd imagine up ourselves.My brother and I used to play Risk, and we'd pretend to be these old timey generals and warlords, giving out orders to our troops, and negotiating peace treaties.Fast forward to middle school and I got a hand-me-down computer. I used to spend hours and hours in Yahoo! chatrooms, or online forums role-playing with others. I played a lot of EverQuest, and EverQuest2, and often on the RP servers.At one point myself, my brother, and his (at the time) wife made up our own dice based RPG system with a bunch of D6's stolen from the same Risk set. I think we knew D&amp;D existed but we had no idea how to get into it. Once a family friend offered to run a game for us though, it was love at first roll.I really like telling stories, and I find a lot of joy in telling a story in collaboration with someone else. I think part of it is that I'm just not particularly good at it.. I've always wanted to write a novel, or a screenplay or something, but I've never been able to get more than a few pages into any attempt.With TTRPGs a few pages is usually more than enough. I can come up with the bones of a story, and then I get to fill in the gaps with the players at the table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Meech17, post: 9523143, member: 7044459"] For me, TTRPGs feel like an evolution of something I've always enjoyed. I like telling stories with friends. As a little kid on the grade school playground, my friends and I would pretend to be characters from video games or cartoons and act out little stories we'd imagine up ourselves. My brother and I used to play Risk, and we'd pretend to be these old timey generals and warlords, giving out orders to our troops, and negotiating peace treaties. Fast forward to middle school and I got a hand-me-down computer. I used to spend hours and hours in Yahoo! chatrooms, or online forums role-playing with others. I played a lot of EverQuest, and EverQuest2, and often on the RP servers. At one point myself, my brother, and his (at the time) wife made up our own dice based RPG system with a bunch of D6's stolen from the same Risk set. I think we knew D&D existed but we had no idea how to get into it. Once a family friend offered to run a game for us though, it was love at first roll. I really like telling stories, and I find a lot of joy in telling a story in collaboration with someone else. I think part of it is that I'm just not particularly good at it.. I've always wanted to write a novel, or a screenplay or something, but I've never been able to get more than a few pages into any attempt. With TTRPGs a few pages is usually more than enough. I can come up with the bones of a story, and then I get to fill in the gaps with the players at the table. [/QUOTE]

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