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<blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 284744" data-attributes="member: 1257">While I only played D&amp;D once the entire time I was in college, college had a profound impact on my later D&amp;D play. That's because I played games in college like you wouldn't believe.I went to University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. Small college, but the game club had close to 40 people show up for most of the club meetings. Both U of R and the Rochester Institute of Technology across town ran a convention every year. We'd help them staff theirs, and they'd help us staff ours. The only time I played D&amp;D is when a group from U of R needed a player for RIT's tournament. The guy playing the kender had laryngitis and couldn't speak, but we managed to just barely win the tournament.I also played and ran plenty of RPGs, including CyberPunk, Toon, The Fantasy Trip, Rolemaster, and my best ever campaign: GURPS Illuminati, with one player playing his dad, and the other playing his mailman.Of course, magic came out while I was in college, and everybody was playing it. My last semester was especially insane. I got into this special program that required I make a specific list of classes for the next year and a half and take only those classes. Which was fine until the registrar changed all of the classes around. I was stuck with two hell semesters of five or six classes including graduate level work. But my last semester was three morning classes, two of them guts. I'd get up in the morning, go to class, then play pinball until the pizza place in the commons opened, and go upstairs to the game office (I had a key) and sit there and play games all day long.I was one of three people from my class who ended up in the game industry. One went to work for InQuest, one for R. Talsorian, and I opened a game store and later worked for Iron Crown.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ichabod, post: 284744, member: 1257"] While I only played D&D once the entire time I was in college, college had a profound impact on my later D&D play. That's because I played games in college like you wouldn't believe. I went to University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. Small college, but the game club had close to 40 people show up for most of the club meetings. Both U of R and the Rochester Institute of Technology across town ran a convention every year. We'd help them staff theirs, and they'd help us staff ours. The only time I played D&D is when a group from U of R needed a player for RIT's tournament. The guy playing the kender had laryngitis and couldn't speak, but we managed to just barely win the tournament. I also played and ran plenty of RPGs, including CyberPunk, Toon, The Fantasy Trip, Rolemaster, and my best ever campaign: GURPS Illuminati, with one player playing his dad, and the other playing his mailman. Of course, magic came out while I was in college, and everybody was playing it. My last semester was especially insane. I got into this special program that required I make a specific list of classes for the next year and a half and take only those classes. Which was fine until the registrar changed all of the classes around. I was stuck with two hell semesters of five or six classes including graduate level work. But my last semester was three morning classes, two of them guts. I'd get up in the morning, go to class, then play pinball until the pizza place in the commons opened, and go upstairs to the game office (I had a key) and sit there and play games all day long. I was one of three people from my class who ended up in the game industry. One went to work for InQuest, one for R. Talsorian, and I opened a game store and later worked for Iron Crown. [/QUOTE]

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