You may have heard that Atlas Games is doing this blogging prompt thing called Reverb Gamers 2012. There are 31 questions to prompt blog posts, one for each day of January. I’m a day late already but I’m going to try to get some of these done. Length of posts could vary a lot. So here’s number one and you’ll find two and three in a separate post today. Check out the Reverb Gamers Facebook page too, where lots of people are posting their answers.

REVERB GAMERS 2012, #1: What was your first roleplaying experience? Who introduced you to it? How did that introduction shape the gamer you’ve become?

What was your first roleplaying experience? Who introduced you to it?

I roleplayed before I knew what it was. I had a friend who kept getting in trouble in high school for eating chips in class. So we developed a system called Sneaky Points. He would get different numbers of points for how sneaky he was and the actions he took (e.g. more points if the teacher was looking, etc.). I drew up characters and equipment and so on for him to spend his Sneaky Points on and had baddies for his characters to fight. No dungeons or adventures, but it was RPG-ish.

Same friend later on explained to me what D&D was and we went back to his place to check out his books. It was 3.0 at the time and 3.5 was brand new or just around the corner. I soon joined a game as a cleric, I think. It was short lived, maybe only the one session, but I met some gaming friends through that experience and we soon started up a year-long campaign. I remember asking lots of questions about how GMing worked and my friend could see I was obviously really interested in worldbuilding.

In the first long campaign was a rogue, Barabas, who was quickly killed when the dwarf when insane (played by the friend who introduced me; someone else was running the game). Barabas was replaced by a human druid who lived a good life, found his elven foster tribe and retired to be replaced by Talmir the elven druid who was the only PC to come out the end alive and in good health. Continue reading…

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