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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 284507" data-attributes="member: 960">I went to college in three places - George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia (class of '86), Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (class of '87), and the University of Texas at Austin (no class <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).I started playing in high school (1979).  College (1982) marked the end of my role-playing experience.  I got involved in forensics my sophomore year, and was too busy to play games.  We competed almost every weekend from October - early December, and January - April.  In the summers, I worked on forensics stuff for the next year (we had to audition every year to get on the team).  In September, you polished your stuff and helped all the rookies get ready for their first tournament.When I stopped playing, unlike Eric, I didnt' sell my books. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I did have some of that "I'm too old for this" attitude, though.  I did pick up the original T1-4: Temple of Elemental Evil when it finally came out.  I hadn't played in years and had no intention of playing, but I think I just wanted to "complete the set" since I had bought T1: Village of Hommlet years before.In 1999, I started lurking in 2 different 2e PBEM games (and I ended up playing in one of them fairly quickly).In 2000, I went to GenCon, just "for the day" and to get the 3e PHB.  Also, right before GenCon, my relatives delivered a lot of my stuff to my new house--including two boxes of 1st ed. stuff (Dieties and Demigods with Cthulu + Melnibonean Mythos, anyone?).I searched for a 3e game, and finally found one locally in Spring of 2001.  It's still going strong, though only 2 of the original players are still involved.  I also starting playing in RPGA events in June of 2001.Currently, I'm playing in one 2e pbem, one 3e pbem, one 3e tabletop game (2 sets of characters: our regular group and a "low level" group), two Call of Cthulhu d20 message board games (one with multiple characters), one Legend of the 5 Rings message board game.  And then I've got two characters for the Living Greyhawk RPGA campaign and one character in the Living Death RPGA campaign.  I run some RPGA stuff once in a while, and I run a home campaign for my children and some of their friends.  They've gone through Sunless Citadel and are just about to finish up the old U1-3 Saltmarsh series (thank you, conversion library!)Guess I'm making up for lost time!The very first time I played D&D (1979), I had to DM.  If someone every gets me very drunk or bribes me sufficiently, I will relate (in public--on these boards) how bad a DM I was.  Still, we all had fun (which is the important thing), and eventually those characters got run through the classic G1-2-3 modules, where they narrowly escaped a TPK.</blockquote>

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