14 to 50 -- 1996
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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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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