Leveling up My Roleplaying Skills – Followup

About two weeks ago I shared a story about how my roleplaying skills are getting older, and asked how long you have been roleplaying and who taught you.  Wolf was kind enough to share his story.

I started in 1985-’86, my roleplaying skills are almost legal to rent a car (or has that changed?), and have been legal enough to drink for almost 3 years now give or take.

Man, the group we had back then were raggedy. And most of the guys moved away, but the core is still there, or were back in ’03. Then I became one of the guys who moved away. (even after a 4 year stint in the Army, we still got together and threw the dice all the way up till when I left.

I think it was about 1992 when we ran a session of Star Wars (the best and original West End Games version, IMHO) for a marathon 15 or so hours, and just as the sun was coming up, we realized that none of us remembered rolling dice. And we were having a ton of fun, so then we just started seeing how much fun we could have just getting into character… That was the first time, the day before I die will be the last.

During my time I’ve gamed with my core group, two college groups (along with that core group, yah, there’s a reason I went into the military, I never got work done in college, what with upwards of 6 games a week, I mean come on now. LOL, seriously though). A local group of Germans when I was in Germany for a few years, two Great, and I mean Great, groups in the 82nd Airborne, back to my old home town group after the service, then I picked up another group or two back home, Then I moved out here to Arizona, and have been in 7 or 8 groups here, still trying to settle down, but I think that a core group is bubbling out of the flotsam there too.

Great article, and good for stirring up the memories. Thanks.

No Wolf, thank you for the story.  Come back every Friday when we go Behind the Bar.