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I'm just watching some awesome extra special stuff on the LOTR dvds, which are great btw, and it came to my mind how I first got introduced to it and what experience it was personally. I want you to tell me how you got involved the first time.
My first time was when my cousin had bought a role playing game, merp (middle earth role playing game), and I didn't know what RPGs were. I was 10 or 11... and I didn't understand it even when he tried to explain me really, but it sounded interesting.. spells, evil creatures, adventure, caves, orcs, battle, no limits, ultimate trip, addictive.. and at that time there were the 'concerned adults' thing going on with the whole RPG thing, because it's supposed to be like satan worshipping in disguise and make you devils servant or something like that. Well, I wasn't interested in satan worshipping, but it had kind of rebellious, danger in it, which equals interesting and must try to a kid.
So, we started playing, and boy it was awesome. I was hooked when I learned how to play RPGs, though there's really not much to learn, but released myself into the way of thinking and became expressive player. We got almost all the addition packs and extras there were, lots and lots and lots of miniatures which my cousin painted with great skills (he's an artist IIRC). You can imagine how well 10, 11 year old kid really gets into the stuff, when the GM is skilled and imagination flies..... one of those things when time flies and you don't know what hour it is, and frankly you don't care... always coming home late, and always disappointed you have to really go now.. eagerly waiting for the next chance to play.
So, as we went along with it, I realized this is based on a real book. I wasn't much of a reader, but as I found the world itself very interesting and addictive, and I was told that the book itself is very good, I just had to get my hands on it. At that time, I was already 12 though. It was my first long book, but it was great. Imagination flew, and the story itself was very vivid, though not the easiest read for first long book because of all the little details. But once you got hooked into it, it didn't matter, it only added to the picture in your head. It was a great read, it took me whole summer to read it, but I was glad I did. I didn't want to tell too many people that I liked RPGs, because that was considered dorky stuff at that time in that age group. So it was even more fun, that I had read a long book and had this whole world that I read about and experienced through the game.
Naturally later on it became obvious most had read it too, but didn't want to be loud about it
Anyway, so how did you get involved, and when? Oh and for me it was 1992.
My first time was when my cousin had bought a role playing game, merp (middle earth role playing game), and I didn't know what RPGs were. I was 10 or 11... and I didn't understand it even when he tried to explain me really, but it sounded interesting.. spells, evil creatures, adventure, caves, orcs, battle, no limits, ultimate trip, addictive.. and at that time there were the 'concerned adults' thing going on with the whole RPG thing, because it's supposed to be like satan worshipping in disguise and make you devils servant or something like that. Well, I wasn't interested in satan worshipping, but it had kind of rebellious, danger in it, which equals interesting and must try to a kid.
So, we started playing, and boy it was awesome. I was hooked when I learned how to play RPGs, though there's really not much to learn, but released myself into the way of thinking and became expressive player. We got almost all the addition packs and extras there were, lots and lots and lots of miniatures which my cousin painted with great skills (he's an artist IIRC). You can imagine how well 10, 11 year old kid really gets into the stuff, when the GM is skilled and imagination flies..... one of those things when time flies and you don't know what hour it is, and frankly you don't care... always coming home late, and always disappointed you have to really go now.. eagerly waiting for the next chance to play.
So, as we went along with it, I realized this is based on a real book. I wasn't much of a reader, but as I found the world itself very interesting and addictive, and I was told that the book itself is very good, I just had to get my hands on it. At that time, I was already 12 though. It was my first long book, but it was great. Imagination flew, and the story itself was very vivid, though not the easiest read for first long book because of all the little details. But once you got hooked into it, it didn't matter, it only added to the picture in your head. It was a great read, it took me whole summer to read it, but I was glad I did. I didn't want to tell too many people that I liked RPGs, because that was considered dorky stuff at that time in that age group. So it was even more fun, that I had read a long book and had this whole world that I read about and experienced through the game.
Naturally later on it became obvious most had read it too, but didn't want to be loud about it
Anyway, so how did you get involved, and when? Oh and for me it was 1992.
. I almost didn't finish it because FOTR was soooo boring. But TTT was great and ROTK was decent, so it was ok. I read the Hobbit later... like it much better (get rid of the superfluous ****). I still think it overrated.
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