I have always been a little off the beaten track as far as fitting into society and at an early age I get into science fiction and fantasy, because I could dream my way into a place to belong to far quicker than I could physically fit into the world outside. I got into science fiction in TV and the movies as well as superhero comics and graphic magazines.
I guess I was a shoe in when I was introduced into RPG gaming. I found an entire community of lost people just like me that understood me and more than that, welcomed me as an equal.
My initial experience into RPGs was the first addition big books of Dungeons and dragons, which I devoired as well as I could. I think i started out as a fighter, but then turned to theif, which I have embrased in just about every charator I've ever played in the game. My best Charactor was a female dark Elf Cleric/ thief, which allowed me to use clerk spells and utilize all the theif skills. I could also fight two-handed with short swards and I could use a long bow, which I could really reach out and touch people. I was a prized member of any party I was in, because I could fight in the front lines or the rear and had healing skills that helped out the other characters.
Other games I got into was the Traveler series, which was a highly detailed futuristic game that you, not only could create characters, but space ships and whole planet structure.
There was a plethora of games out there that spanned just about every timeline imaginab;r, but the most detailed game I found was one called Aftermath, which was set in a post holocaust world where you could be old and have several tech skills as well as doctoring skills or be young and have a chance to have mutant abilities. What I liked was the firearms that you could have and each weapon had it's own damage level. I was noy into physically having a gun in real life, but being inside a fantasy world were mutant animals and gangs romed everywhere it was your safest bet to survive.
There were more games that had a different take on things, but they were virtually the same as for preping the games and running them. There was a person who ran the game and gave the situation the group was in and there was the group, itself who had to work as a team to get through whatever the judge through at us.
It was a ready made world for geaks such as myself and gave me an outlet to share myself and embrace others who drempt of a world quite like those I dreamt of.
Are there any RPG gamers out there, as well?
I guess I was a shoe in when I was introduced into RPG gaming. I found an entire community of lost people just like me that understood me and more than that, welcomed me as an equal.
My initial experience into RPGs was the first addition big books of Dungeons and dragons, which I devoired as well as I could. I think i started out as a fighter, but then turned to theif, which I have embrased in just about every charator I've ever played in the game. My best Charactor was a female dark Elf Cleric/ thief, which allowed me to use clerk spells and utilize all the theif skills. I could also fight two-handed with short swards and I could use a long bow, which I could really reach out and touch people. I was a prized member of any party I was in, because I could fight in the front lines or the rear and had healing skills that helped out the other characters.
Other games I got into was the Traveler series, which was a highly detailed futuristic game that you, not only could create characters, but space ships and whole planet structure.
There was a plethora of games out there that spanned just about every timeline imaginab;r, but the most detailed game I found was one called Aftermath, which was set in a post holocaust world where you could be old and have several tech skills as well as doctoring skills or be young and have a chance to have mutant abilities. What I liked was the firearms that you could have and each weapon had it's own damage level. I was noy into physically having a gun in real life, but being inside a fantasy world were mutant animals and gangs romed everywhere it was your safest bet to survive.
There were more games that had a different take on things, but they were virtually the same as for preping the games and running them. There was a person who ran the game and gave the situation the group was in and there was the group, itself who had to work as a team to get through whatever the judge through at us.
It was a ready made world for geaks such as myself and gave me an outlet to share myself and embrace others who drempt of a world quite like those I dreamt of.
Are there any RPG gamers out there, as well?
