14 to 50 -- 1996

[vanillafluffy]

We're back to Warren Beatty again...because if I hadn't been baby-sitting for BC's offspring, which entailed watching some Saturday morning cartoons...a lot of things would've been different.

The 'toon in question was X-Men. I knew almost nothing about the Marvelverse aside from Spiderman and Fantastic Four, which had been Saturday morning cartoons when *I* was a kid. I got hooked. Started looking into the actual comic books, and started hanging out at a comic book store over on the Island. And yes, I wrote fan-fic for it.

Being a regular there, I knew they had a lot of space dedicated to D&D and gaming. So when Kindred: the Embraced came on FOX, and I fell for it hard, and I found out it had started as a RPG, I got sucked into gaming.

I had a thing for vampires (I say had, because the next few years would cure me), and although I'd never gotten into role-playing games before, I soon became passionate. One of the guys in the group talked me into joining a werewolf game, which I ended up even more passionate about. The vampires were more political, whereas the werewolves were more action-oriented.

Well, that, and I was hot for the GM. I found out that there was a LARP game in the area that he was active in, and I started going to that. It turned out that right about that time he found someone and started to pull away from the Camarilla (which was the name of the publisher's organization that kept track of it all), but the Cam...well, it's gonna make the next few years interesting.

Stay tuned.


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Comments

[joker-satx.livejournal.com]

I love Roleplaying games. I used to be a HUGE D&D player. Loved ShadowRun. But for me, there were two things that killed it. First, we have had players that are just too into the numbers to afford flexibility. Everything was a statistic.

The second was that all games ended up being comedies. Like if you were the main character in a movie like the Golden Child. I preferred to play epic sagas. I preferred to get with other player characters and work creatively....Nope, there always had to be one player that had to be the comic relief and that player inevitably took over the campaign. When this started happening that would normally be my last time gaming.....

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I didn't actually get into D&D until later. But when it comes to stats players, you have just described my ex. He was a total numbermancer (as he called it), and I swear he memorized all the tables and charts of hit points. And one of the LARP games had a GM who...everything had to be about her. If there was a problem only her player character could solve it, if there was something mysterious going on, nothing anyone suggested would get answers...plus she was a habitual liar IRL, but that's another story.

[gwylliondream.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I can't wait to hear more!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

That's good, I'm still here connecting the dots. (It's funny how I remember bits and snips but getting it in order---!)