How did you first get into RPGs?

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

Hero's quest.

cheesemage · Post by **cheesemage** » Thu May 24, 2001 3:39 pm

My first rpg was on the nes Star tropics didnt even know about zelda till OoT though i still love the series

vixen · Post by **vixen** » Thu May 24, 2001 3:41 pm

I also used to like repton on the bbc. Anybody rememver that? It had the most fantastic music.

Lemmings rocked too.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Thu May 24, 2001 4:54 pm

Chucky egg!!!
Repton!!!!!
Man, that stuff was great...

Ok, so the first RPG was probably a very primitive adventure game
(You are standing in a forest. You can hear a stream in the distance. To the north is a house.
N
You are outside the house.... etc.)
It never really caught my imagination...

Then I played Zelda on the Super NES. I'm not sure I would call it RPG though, you don't really develop the character...

So I would say my first real RPG was BG. Followed by BG2, IWD, and PS:T.

jennabard · Post by **jennabard** » Thu May 24, 2001 8:00 pm

whenever i answer this queation, everyone always look at me in disbelief and here's why.

i started playing AD PNP in high school with two of my friends at the time (both girls) and one aunt. then we dragged my brother and his friends and played for two years.

went into the military and found other gamers including been part of a gamers guild in base (its cheaper than going out every weekend, saves money when your a lowly airmen). experienced playing harm, rifts, war hammer, meckton, middle earth, fell inlove playing any of the white wolf games. played live action vampire the masquerade where i meet my husband (we were eneimies

). didn't get into playing crpgs until i found lunar: silver star story on the sega cd.

i still play PNP rpg and am currently obsessed with BG2 and debating whether i should buy the playstation 2 or the xbox at the end of the year.

i'll miss having new games for the dreamcast. LONG LIVE THE DREAMCAST!

[ 05-24-2001: Message edited by: jennabard ]

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu May 24, 2001 8:17 pm

I was working for public radio in Fargo/Moorhead, a very cold area of the US (the border between North Dakota and Minnesota), with about 150,000 people, mainly of Norwegian descent. During the winter, these sociable Amero-Norwegians would hold weekend-long house parties to get around the intense cold. I purchased several of the first TSR books (which I've still got, buried somewhere), and a group of us--lawyers, media producers, agency heads and whatnot--played mages, fighters, priests and thieves.

Tons of fun.

Manveru · Post by **Manveru** » Fri May 25, 2001 12:22 am

Hmmm.. I'm rather newbie in RPGs. To be honest I didn't play PnP RPGs in the past because I hadn't time and wasn't interested in this (there were too many more interesting things for me to do then). Now because of my studies I also have no time for this - CRPGs could be used when I want it when PnP RPG requires human players that are not very happy to play with me at 11 p.m. I started playing CRPGs when I was terribly bored by Civilization, and other strategies (C&C, Starcraft etc.). Firstly I started to play fantasy strategies : Myth: The Fallen Lords, Heroes of Might and Magic, Warcraft 1/2. But one day I borrowed from my friend Fallout thing and it was beggining. Later I finished Fallout 2 and saw BG1 and so on...

vixen · Post by **vixen** » Fri May 25, 2001 5:04 am

Was anybody else terrorised by Granny's Garden at school?