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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2400265" data-attributes="member: 12332">My first "group" was me and a friend of mine ... his older brother (we were officially "kids" at the time) played RPGs and we decided to make one up.  So we did.  I totally forget the rules but they were very simple and consisted mostly of:  "We know dice are involved ... all I have are yatzee dice ... if I roll 1,2,3 I miss, 4,5,6 I hit!  And when I get better, I'll hit on 3 too!"  But that wasn't all that great because 1d6 doesn't give you alot of options.  So I begged my mother to take me an hour away to a town of some size where I picked up the 2nd ed boxed game.  Which was alot of fun.  After that I got the 2nd Ed. PHB and DMG and MM ... I got my local friends to play (we moved) and I played with them irregularly.  For us it was "Something to do when we're broke and bored" so random weekends and days during the summer we'd get four 12-packs of the locally-canned super cheap soda and I'd run an off-the-cuff D&D game.  We'd throw in money every once in a while and buy an expansion ... usually boxed sets ... Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, etc.After high school I went to college.  I sort of felt out the gamers there, but most of my friends happened to be computer science and engineering geeks who played video games and drank alot of whiskey.  The gamers I did encounter all played Vampire and thought they were angsty.  Most of them were people I had no interest in seeing outside of an RPG so I opted to do more drinking and less gaming.  I played ONE session of RPGs the entire time I was an undergraduate.For Grad School I found the campus had a gaming club ... my new wife and I are both gamers, to some extent, and we eventually showed up.  (For the first few weeks ... well, they'd moved the rooms and forgot to update the webpage, and when I inquired about where everybody was on the list-serv the guy that runs things sent me a very snippy email.  So I figured I had another case of "The Gamers Here Are Tools" and wasn't going to go, but I met somebody from the club that convinced me to give it a second go round.)  It was a slow week when we got there and I had thought ahead and brought my books.  A few people came that had never played D&D and I ran a quick adventure and they liked it and after a few games like that I invited the folks I thought were cool to come over to our place for a regular weekly game.  Those same core people, more or less, have been my regular group for the last five years.  Very good players, and I'd count them as friends, even if they're generally younger than I am.  We kept going to the gaming club meetings, played alot of board games and the like, and generally got to know the 15-20 regular gamers on campus.  They're all good people, and I've played with alot of them in various games over the last two years.Now I'm moving again ... have to see how this segment of my gaming life will turn out.  I've had several generous offers from semi-local ENWorlders.  Would be nice to walk into an established group and just PLAY.  I usually end up the GM.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--fje</blockquote>

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