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<blockquote data-quote="Achan hiArusa" data-source="post: 4539867" data-attributes="member: 2597"><p>Okay (in short):</p><p></p><p>1st love: Star Frontiers</p><p>2nd: D&D</p><p>3rd: Runequest</p><p>4th: Vampire the Masquerade</p><p>5th: Empire of the Petal Throne </p><p></p><p>Long version:</p><p></p><p>My first game was Holmes D&D. I'm not that old, but the teacher had a copy in the classroom library. It was interesting, confusing, and in the end I'm not sure what I did. Then I found out I was playing somebody else's character.</p><p></p><p>The first game I fell in love with was Star Frontiers, though now I look at it and ask "How many times can I get shot with a gun and still live?" And "wait a minute the star chart is flat!" The races were cool though.</p><p></p><p>Then it was the Metzner Red Box which I used with the Moldvay Blue Book. Then I got a copy of the AD&D Player's Handbook, so my Jr. High and High School games were a mix of three (and everyone wonders why I tinker with games so much) and it became even weirder when I got a copy of Oriental Adventures. Ah, those were the days. All the while dodging my D&D is evil stepmother.</p><p></p><p>I then had a long summer fling with Runequest extensively at Arkansas Governor's School and loved the system, but could never get the books for my own. A friend of mine let me borrow his Gamma World 3e which I never ran but read extensively.</p><p></p><p>After that, I got my first corebook set when I bought the 2e books at a bookstore in Harrison, AR after taking my SAT.</p><p></p><p>Then came college and I ran into Shadowrun, Torg, Champions, GURPS, Cyberpunk 2020, and Mekton. But the game that really caught my eye was Vampire: The Masquerade and its sequels. When I read the 1st Edition book I was riveted and even more so when I read the 1st Edition Chicago by Night. I was a very gamist DM before that, but eventually I wandered into a more Narratavist mode after running WoD for awhile (though I will say, I love the new system even though it inspires hate from my old players).</p><p></p><p>And when I read about Tekumel and the Empire of the Petal Throne I spent months trying to balance learning about that world with Graduate School.</p><p></p><p>Then I went through my own gaming is evil phase and eventually recovered. And now I have a wealth of gaming material that doesn't quite fit on two 5 shelf shelf units. But the only game I have right now is a Skype/Map Tools game we run on Saturday nights which is Pulp d20 (the original version).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Achan hiArusa, post: 4539867, member: 2597"] Okay (in short): 1st love: Star Frontiers 2nd: D&D 3rd: Runequest 4th: Vampire the Masquerade 5th: Empire of the Petal Throne Long version: My first game was Holmes D&D. I'm not that old, but the teacher had a copy in the classroom library. It was interesting, confusing, and in the end I'm not sure what I did. Then I found out I was playing somebody else's character. The first game I fell in love with was Star Frontiers, though now I look at it and ask "How many times can I get shot with a gun and still live?" And "wait a minute the star chart is flat!" The races were cool though. Then it was the Metzner Red Box which I used with the Moldvay Blue Book. Then I got a copy of the AD&D Player's Handbook, so my Jr. High and High School games were a mix of three (and everyone wonders why I tinker with games so much) and it became even weirder when I got a copy of Oriental Adventures. Ah, those were the days. All the while dodging my D&D is evil stepmother. I then had a long summer fling with Runequest extensively at Arkansas Governor's School and loved the system, but could never get the books for my own. A friend of mine let me borrow his Gamma World 3e which I never ran but read extensively. After that, I got my first corebook set when I bought the 2e books at a bookstore in Harrison, AR after taking my SAT. Then came college and I ran into Shadowrun, Torg, Champions, GURPS, Cyberpunk 2020, and Mekton. But the game that really caught my eye was Vampire: The Masquerade and its sequels. When I read the 1st Edition book I was riveted and even more so when I read the 1st Edition Chicago by Night. I was a very gamist DM before that, but eventually I wandered into a more Narratavist mode after running WoD for awhile (though I will say, I love the new system even though it inspires hate from my old players). And when I read about Tekumel and the Empire of the Petal Throne I spent months trying to balance learning about that world with Graduate School. Then I went through my own gaming is evil phase and eventually recovered. And now I have a wealth of gaming material that doesn't quite fit on two 5 shelf shelf units. But the only game I have right now is a Skype/Map Tools game we run on Saturday nights which is Pulp d20 (the original version). [/QUOTE]
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