thread: 2006-10-17 : My roleplaying summary
On 2006-10-18, Twila wrote:
Me, I'm kind of atypical, 'cause I began playing when I was sixteen or seventeen (freshman year at college), after meeting a young man, son of one of my professors, who was an albino and into Michael Moorcock's Elric books. He was shocked that a girl was into fantasy and sf, but he quickly decided to invite me and Jeff Drefke and his little brother to play this new game he'd found—which was first edition D&D, back in 1974. We played a few games, which were fun, though we were really cautious about combat (I recall running away from the dragon, as we all KNEW what dragons could do, vis a vis being fantasy fans, and not being stupid enough to want to try to combat one).
Then, a few years later, I met and married my one true love, and for our first valentine's day, he bought me some miniatures—some hobbits on a horse, and something else—and started me looking for more. Ooops. That led to me finding Rider's Hobbies in Ann Arbor, attending my first gaming con here in A2, and finding out that, hey, even though I'm not a big D&D fan, there's this cool game called "Traveller" out there. Before the Imperium. Before all the meta-plot... we played Andre Norton space merchant traveller, and gosh, did I love it! I also bought somewhere in there, I have no idea when, original "Runequest" and oh yes! "Fringeworthy". We got involved in gaming groups. We played whatever we could. It was fun. I started my bad habit of buying games and not playing them, but reading them anyway.
Two kids and a few years later, we moved to Ann Arbor. I got into a freeform game based on the Amber novels (this was before the role-playing game came out) and met lots of new gamer friends. This led to me learning GURPS, playing lots of point-based games, and also eventually, playing Pendragon. I still love Pendragon. Eventually got into a Star Trek campaign, and on-line not-really-gaming (they call it role-playing, but it is more like on-line interactive fiction to ME).
Am currently playing in an Exalted campaign which I'm still feeling unsure about, and ... hmmm.... being solicited for two different D&D 3.5 campaigns. I still don't think I like D&D.
I would love to try some of the Forge-type games I've learned about, but I don't think my groups would like 'em .Sigh.
