Comments on: Weekly Question: How did you start Roleplaying?

By: Spyder Z

Spyder Z — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:00:45 +0000

When I was little I used to come up with all kinds of stories. I tried to write them down, but never had the interest in going too far with them. Having played a few cool board games at my families homes, I realized that I could do as good if not better on my own. So I began creating board games (Which I still have some of today. O.o! ).

As time went on, I tried for more and more depth in my board games, which quickly became a lot of work. My brothers and I played “Pretend”, and even expanded on the worlds of my games while playing them, so having heard of this “Pen and Paper” style of gaming (But not having the money to buy the books and try it out), I decided to create my own. I never went back to board games. ;P

By: Spyder Z

Spyder Z — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:41:18 +0000

@Sam, thanks for taking the time to respond back to our question. Are you still an avid roleplayer? What are your favorite games to play?

By: River

River — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:44:38 +0000

I spent middle school and most of high school watching my older brother and his friends play D&D and Warcraft in our basement. I was never invited to play (yes, childhood trauma revealed!) but I was intrigued by the idea of roleplaying.

As a freshman in college, I ran into some guys who played a weekly game. I showed up for one of their sessions, but was COMPLETELY out of my depth.

A year ago, there was an opening in a friend’s campaign and I mentioned my interest. I’m still in that game.

By: River

River — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:44:00 +0000

As a freshman in college, I ran into some guys who played a weekly game. I showed up for one of their sessions, but was COMPLETELY out of my depth.

A year ago, there was an opening in a friend’s campaign and I mentioned my interest. I’m still in that game.

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:12:58 +0000

@Katharyn I can see easily how you would enjoy less math-based games. From here forward, I’m going to try to teach new players simpler games, such Savage Worlds, in order to get them more into the role playing and less into the math. Thanks for your story.

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:12:00 +0000

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:08:33 +0000

@Lysander I love how you have it down to the exact time you started playing! I have a friend of mine who actually used dice to make a decision in real life. After which she promptly sent me a text message saying she needed to be institutionalized. Thanks for sharing your story!

By: Tyson J. Hayes

Tyson J. Hayes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:08:00 +0000

By: Katharyn

Katharyn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:19:00 +0000

ORIGINALLY, I started playing 2nd addition D&D because the people that I was spending my weekends with were playing. There were too many people for me to really figure the system out (they just did the math for me) and the DM and I had a bit of a falling out so that was the end of that for a while.

Then at a BBQ I bumped into an old family friend Warren, 15 years my senior who having heard that I had started to play D&D wanted to know how I was was enjoying it. After hearing that I had stopped playing he inquired as to why and (having watched me grow up struggling with dyslexia)his face fell in shock at the word THACO. “THEY WERE TEACHING YOU SECOND ADDITION? WHY WOULD YOU TRY TO TEACH SOMEONE WITH DYSLEXIA SECOND WHEN THIRD IS OUT?”

Determined that this not be the end of my RPG experience he made arrangements for his wife to pick me up from work on Friday nights so I could role play with them. Already well into the Campaign of the Rods he wanted to started me off as low level so I could better learn the system, and thus had me play a wear-tiger so I would still be as powerful as the slightly higher level characters.

After a three year (more or less) hiatus with RPG’s I have quite recently returned; finding my Nosferatu lust well saturated by Vampire the Requiem, which led playing more D&D and Savage Worlds. I find I’m greatly preferring the simpler systems of WOD, VTR, and SW to D&D.