Your college exp

[Vymair]

Yes, I went to college.

Ironically, didn't play much d&d but definitely hooked up with the gaming crowd that was there. Back then we spent most of our gaming energies on Runequest, ICE, CoC and Champs and its fantasy version.

To this day, my D&D connections are with the guys I played with in high school and all their younger siblings that found the game though us....

 

[evil_rmf]

Yes, I went to college. No I did not play in college at all, even though Purdue has a pretty strong RPG tradition (Jeff Grubb, the MotP author, is a Purdue Civil Engineering alum, for example).

I had quit the game around '87 for a number of reasons(none of which had anything to do with college), and only vaugely followed it until I starting gaming again in 1997. Even at that, I didn't play again DnD until 2001.

I never sold my books. Well I take that back, I sold my 1st ed Oriental Adventures to some guy on campus for about $30. Pristine copy too. Shoulda kept it.

While I regret being away from RPGs for that long, I wouldn't change hardly anything at all about my college experience.

 

[Davelozzi]

I spent my freshman year at Hofstra University on Long Island ***shudders****. I played as a player in my roommate's campaign but wasn't really into it as my playing style didn't really mesh with theirs. I started my own campaign but only got to play once before I transferred...

...to UMass Amherst. I had a great group there and we started a campaign that was lots of fun until most of the players failed out, which pretty much killed it. We didn't play too often though, just a couple of times per semester.

My current group, now that I'm back in Boston, is a combination of my UMass group and my original group that I played with growing up.

 

[Voadam]

Yes, UW Madison,

Friday nights all four years as a player, and then added DMing on Saturdays senior year with a group that was half composed of my roomates.

I resisted the urge to do more than one night a week for three years.

As a player I got more political and big picture in world events since it was one ongoing campaign and I got progressively more powerful as a merchant prince (after I managed to become one) and wizard as time went on.

 

[Ulrick]

I played D&D all through high school but when I came to Indian Hills Community College gaming became a rarity.

I still ran my my home campaign with my high school buddies when we could but getting a descent campaign going was tough at IHCC. This was about the time Magic became a big hit and still was a big hit at IHCC. Not many people wanted to play D&D. And those that did play...well, I didn't want to game with them for various reasons.

I started up three campaigns there. All died by the second session. One died within a half-hour of starting (I won't go there. Let's just say I was very very mad about it.) So I stopped trying.

When I transfered to Iowa State University that first year I hooked up with the Guild of Roleplayers and Wargamers. I tried to start up something with the guild but everybody seemed to want to cram into a 18 player game down the hall that was 2e.

I got into a few groups that weren't my gaming style and my home game fizzled out.

Last year about this time I started a Greyhawk Campaign that's been going strong ever since.

As for the exp I've gained from college I'm now a Computer Programmer1/CreativeWriter4/Journalist2/Entrepreneur3/DungeonMaster9

Yeah, I've multiclassed quite a bit.

Ulrick

 

[CRG]

I was a very very poor student. Luckily, I'm gifted with an ability to take tests well and work under pressure.

I say that because its hard for me to think of a time in college when I did NOT game. And lots of it.

In college, I had so much more free time on my hands. Plenty of time for Space Marine, WHFB, Shadowrun, TMNT, Robotech, etc. etc. etc. We did a bunch of Vampire in later days, but really, the standard weekly D&D game was the longest running activity.

I liked it so much I spent a few extra years. Again, gaming mostly. I ended up with a couple of degrees and then (sadly) a job. Bye-bye free time.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Sex, beer, and disco!

Two years at USC, Univeristy of South Carolina, home of the Gamecocks, studing marine biology. The drop the program and I started working full time in data processing.

 

[Maerdwyn]

I went - played D&D with my roommates occasionally during sophomore and junior years, but mostly we played a lot of board/Strategy games - Advanced Civilization, Diplomacy, Republic of Rome, and Illuminati were our favorites (oh, and a few of my roommates were heavily into Tragic: the Garnering - luckily, I was too poor then to even start. )

It was real easy to find a few days here and there for a one shot board game (even a twelve hour board game like Adv Civ), but for the most part, I found it too hard to keep the contiunuity of a D&D campaign going during college

 

[Nyanko]

I'm just about to start my second semester of college, and I really haven't done much gaming (okay, none *cries*) in school yet. There's a notorious lack of gamers at my school (Binghamton University... LightPhoenix, we should hook up sometime).

I have spent a large amount of time with computer gaming though... I'm probably transfering to anothe school in a year or so, hopefully one that's more "gamer-friendly." Any suggestions? (someone should petition US News and World Report to list the popularity of certain extracurricular activities in their college guide)

 

[Rune]

Nyanko:

Well, its' pretty distant, but my school has a hefty gamer population. Didn't always used to be that way, but with the advent of 3e, gamers are coming out from under their rocks. I have so many people wanting me to run games for them that I'm going nuts!

Incidentally, my college is also frequently listed in US News & World Report as the top small college, or somesuch, but it doesn't mention gaming. I agree that it should.