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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DumbPaladin" data-source="post: 5544836" data-attributes="member: 90770">I stopped playing D&D from about 1999 until 2008.  Almost a nine-year gap: I do not recall what month I stopped in 1999, but I suspect it was summer, and I started again in earnest February 2009, but played in a very brief Twilight campaign in 2008 run by a truly miserable, unskilled DM that ended abruptly when he killed his girlfriend's character due to his rolling a very lucky string of 20s.That saw our two newest players -- the girlfriend and a friend of mine -- give up on D&D all together.  The other remaining player and I decided the next year to form our own D&D group, and excluded the horrible DM.  We currently have 7 in our group, including the DM, and we are setting aside our 2-year D&D 3.5 campaign to switch to Pathfinder this summer.The end of my 2nd Edition D&D game in the late 90's was truly abysmal.  The DM was one of those kind who just really hasn't had fun unless he's nearly killed or actually killed numerous people each session.  I don't know how many times I ended combats in negative hit points, but I do recall that even more common was my being the sole person left alive and required to give long-term care to the other party members, each of whom were dying.  Add to that the player of the wizard deciding that it was "in character" to shoot lightning bolts THROUGH allies towards monsters, and my character nearly being killed twice by the party wizard, and the DM doing nothing about it ... I was ready to move on.When the DM penalized ME for refusing to heal the wizard any further after he actually dropped me to negative hit points with a lightning bolt ... I told him he was fired as my DM, and left the group after making it very clear just how lousy a DM he was.I honestly ran into very few people in between then and 2008 who played D&D.  A group invited me to join them at community college, but they played at odd hours, out in a loud, public room, and had 15 people in the group.  I wasn't ready for that different of an experience ... so until I made an acquaintance in 2008 who was into D&D, I simply didn't try again.  Once I found someone interested in beginning a group ... well, that really reignited my interest.During all of the 2000s, it helped that I ran a Star Trek simulation online -- that occupied a great deal of my time and most of my interest in roleplay.</blockquote>

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