How did you first get into RPGs?

Alexia · Post by **Alexia** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 11:45 am

It doesn't seem like this question has been asked before, and it's always interesting to hear how people got into Role-Playing Games.

The first game I ever played was a simple Dungeons and Dragons game when I was 13. It was my friend's birthday and she had always wanted to play, so we made her daddy run a game for us.

My next role-playing experience came at a role player's convention and I played a LARP (live action role playing) called Society in Shadows (run right now only in the midwest at certain cons, but will hopefully be expanding soon...want more info? e-mail me*), and I've been playing that game for about 5 years or so now.

Throughout the years I've played a few other games, some set in modern times, most set in old times, and I've found that I enjoy the games that are based more on the Renaissance era and before, which is probably the reason why I got into BG.

~Alexia

* harleydavedsen@hotmail.com

[This message has been edited by Alexia (edited 02-14-2001).]

Ubik · Post by **Ubik** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 12:23 pm

RPGs? What is this??? Anything to do with Selma? Selma who?????

P.S. Sorry for the spam but... I just couldn't resist it

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 12:45 pm

I believe Zelda would be covered under RPG...

It was the first game I ever played too. That would go all the way back to the NES..How many years ago was that?? 17 years? I cannot remember.

Karembeu · Post by **Karembeu** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 4:42 pm

Zelda....ahhhhh...what a great game that was.....it was released in the mid-end of the 1980's......I believe it was 1986 though I could be wrong.......
I can still remember the feeling in the last cave.....level nr 9.
And then killing invisible Ganon with my magical sword and silver arrows......(ooops should have probably had a spoiler warning

)....

Anatres · Post by **Anatres** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 6:17 pm

Obscure but.....

'Tunnels and Trolls'.

Never have (GASP

) played P&P other than the above!

Then came the SSI Gold Box series ('Curse of the Azur Blades' 'Pool of Radience', etc.)

Rail · Post by **Rail** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 7:11 pm

Started playing PNP AD&D in the late seventies when I visited one of my cousins who had gotten hooked on the game. Played the next decade and a half, or so. I got better. I was only 8yrs old when I started. Our story lines were pretty stupid back then. Can you say, "Hack and Slash"?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Feb 14, 2001 9:10 pm

I got into RPG on three things. Books, The Final Fantasy Series (Will always be my favorites) and the Zelda games. As I am younger then most, It was a Link to the Past that got me in it. Plus, it was Final Fantasy 2 (NA version, not Japanesse). Since, I have bought every RPG I could get my hands on.

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 1:02 am

Fallout, Fallout 2, BG1 (latecomer, bought it as a package with TOTSC), BG2.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 1:14 am

I got into RPG with a game named "Oog van de Meester". In English it would be "Eye of the Master", but I am not sure whether there is an English version of the game.

I started playing this with my brothers when I was about 9 years old. After that I started playing D&D computer games and started reading Forgotten Realms novels.

Now I have a huge collection of fantasy novels and D&D source materials.

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Mhr'djynn · Post by **Mhr'djynn** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 1:42 am

7th grade -- my best friend/boyfriend guy was into it, and i'd never heard of it. he bought me a d&d monster manual for my birthday and i was so fascinated that i read it straight through and went and bought some of the other manuals as well. i never actually *played* a tabletop session, though, till i was in college.

as far as crpg's go, i got addicted to age of empires (which is strategy, i know, not rpg) but that set me to looking for a good role-playing game, and as luck would have it, bgII is the first one i bought.

NCT · Post by **NCT** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 3:09 am

PnP D&D since '78.Still have the collection of Lead figures and stuff!The road from then on was Rpgs and Strategy.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 8:37 am

Played Hero Quest when i was a young-un.

First Computer RPG was...

GAUNTLET! played like Icewind Dale but without the lovely graphics, throughly reccommend it for it's total crapness.

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Brink · Post by **Brink** » Thu Feb 15, 2001 9:21 am

My frst RPG game was BG2,now playing Planescape.
Future plans-Icewind Dale and BG

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Feb 17, 2001 2:35 pm

Fallout10? ,fallout210 ,balldursgate11? ,baldusgate11
and im just12

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Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Sun Feb 18, 2001 2:19 am

@Brink, You shouldn't be forgetting Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.

For more info: check my signature

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Brink · Post by **Brink** » Sun Feb 18, 2001 4:43 am

I'll check that out later(if I have the time

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Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Thu May 24, 2001 2:55 pm

This is a good one to bump.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Thu May 24, 2001 3:13 pm

Originally posted by Brink:
<STRONG>I'll check that out later(if I have the time )

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LMAO

vixen · Post by **vixen** » Thu May 24, 2001 3:16 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>First Computer RPG was...

GAUNTLET! </STRONG>

I have vague recollections of this game but cannot remember much. What was it like?

I liked platform games. Chucky egg did it for me every time.

josh · Post by **josh** » Thu May 24, 2001 3:38 pm

The very first RPG I played was Soltice on the NES. Great game but a shame I couldn't complete it. I then played D&D and AD&D at with my friends but I never really gotten into it. Then I was introduced to the Forgotten Realms books and that got me really interested in RPGs from this setting.