Growing up I read at a 3rd grade level when I was in kindergarden. Thus my Uncle Bob, a big fantasy/Sci Fi geek introduced me to the literary works of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Carson of Venus etc.), at the age of 8. An to the works of Robert E. Howard (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane etc.), at the age of 11. In both book and comic form. As well as similar authors like Fritz Leiber, Lin Carter, Sprague De Camp, Gardner Fox, Tolkien-only 'The Hobbit' etc.). In early 1976, when I was 12. My Uncle bought the original pho-woodgrain D & D 3 booklet set. Not being wargamers, we struggled and failed connecting the concepts put forward in them. Then the much more understandable Tunnels & Trolls came along. It's numerous solitaire dungeons to cut our RPGing teeth on. At first my Uncle and I couldn't talk anyone else into to taking the time to learn enough of the rules to playing with us. But that changed after the poorly done animated LOTR movie came out, along with the Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian movies. Anyway I done a decent amount of RPGing over the years since then. As much as school, girlfriends, after school and summer jobs, then 4 years Navy, college, career, marriage, and having 3 kids have allowed. I have played in many games using many different rules systems. Sometimes I have gone a half a decade or so without playing table tops RPGs. Rather getting my RPG fix via Xbox and PC games. It has been nine years since I attempted to play in a regular weekly RL game. It got to frustrating with half the time half the people not showing up. I have been RPGing online on various sites like this, as time has allow since the early 00's. With my last kid going off to college this last fall. I have more spare time on my hands. Right now I'm semi retired and play in 7 games. As well as DM/GMing 2 others. Most of them fantasy based. On 6 different sites like this one.

<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Growing up I read at a 3rd grade level when I was in kindergarden. Thus my Uncle Bob, a big fantasy/Sci Fi geek introduced me to the literary works of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Carson of Venus etc.), at the age of 8. An to the works of Robert E. Howard (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane etc.), at the age of 11. In both book and comic form. As well as similar authors like Fritz Leiber, Lin Carter, Sprague De Camp, Gardner Fox, Tolkien-only 'The Hobbit' etc.). In early 1976, when I was 12. My Uncle bought the original pho-woodgrain D & D 3 booklet set. Not being wargamers, we struggled and failed connecting the concepts put forward in them. Then the much more understandable Tunnels & Trolls came along. It's numerous solitaire dungeons to cut our RPGing teeth on. At first my Uncle and I couldn't talk anyone else into to taking the time to learn enough of the rules to playing with us. But that changed after the poorly done animated LOTR movie came out, along with the Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian movies. <br>Anyway I done a decent amount of RPGing over the years since then. As much as school, girlfriends, after school and summer jobs, then 4 years Navy, college, career, marriage, and having 3 kids have allowed. I have played in many games using many different rules systems. Sometimes I have gone a half a decade or so without playing table tops RPGs. Rather getting my RPG fix via Xbox and PC games. It has been nine years since I attempted to play in a regular weekly RL game. It got to frustrating with half the time half the people not showing up. I have been RPGing online on various sites like this, as time has allow since the early 00's. With my last kid going off to college this last fall. I have more spare time on my hands. Right now I'm semi retired and play in 7 games. As well as DM/GMing 2 others. Most of them fantasy based. On 6 different sites like this one. </div>