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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5554850" data-attributes="member: 75065">1. Started playing RPGs in 1990.2 & 3. My first RPG was one I invented after having played Hero Quest board game. It was inspired by Hero Quest and Pick a Path books like Lone Wolf. I had been forbidden to play D&D and this was my compromise to avoid the guilt.My first official game system was AD&D 2e: A group of kids started a lunch time game. They let me drop in for a couple of weeks. The guilt was too much and so I bailed.Inspired by what I had learnt playing AD&D I made my second attempt at a RPG at the age of 13. It was pretty much AD&D but changed the whole magic system and deity system to one my parent burdened conscious could safely deal with.A year later my friend got all the AD&D 2e books. It was too much. I had to play!It only lasted a year before I moved away.I didn't play again til I was 22. I wanted to teach the kids I began travelling and living in a circus with D&D. I'm not sure what we played. Basically what I could remember of D&D off the top of my head.I settled down after many years of vagabond wandering and started to have a steady income (age 26). I saw the shiney 3.5 books in the bookstore. I had to have them. I got the wife and all the inlaws organised into a game. We began playing again.4e came out. It sounded cool. I wanted to give it a go, so I did. Me and my players prefered it, me mostly because it was more rules light, and easier to run without having to stop the game and check things. My players, because they felt more heroic at level 1 ... we had had a recent incident in a new game of 3.5 that I had started with friends (their first RPG experience) where they had really struggled in a battle against diseased rats, so understandable. Also, reading the DMG and the words 'say Yes' was like taking a burden off my back, that I have found so freeing... my DM style took a 180 degree turn, I think for the better.I have just had my first Pathfinder character approved here on the boards (Living Pathfinder Group), we are still RPing in the tavern hoping to have a martial character join us in a pbp game. I was looking for a Pbp game, which doesn't seem to be an easy thing to get into from what I could tell, at least. But this living world concept is great, I'm loving it. So I guess I'll get to try out the system pretty soon, but it looks pretty cool so far.</blockquote>

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