Deadlands is using the Savage World system these days I think.
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It's complicated. I bought the Red Box in 1987 and in 7th grade asked the local gaming group at my school if I could play with them, but they said no, with the reason given being, and I quote, "Because you're a girl." Nonetheless I bought AD&D 2nd Ed later and made up my own game worlds and characters using the rules, but initially I never had anyone to play with. (I did play the Gold Box video games which is how I first became familiar with the Forgotten Realms.)
We should have met as 80's teenagers. 14-year old me was dis-invited from my gaming group because I insisted we should include girls. (I don't think there were any prospective lady gamers that actually wanted in, my sin was merely broaching the idea that there was an untapped audience, and maybe this could be a solution to the dwindling numbers we were experiencing as people moved or graduated...?) I likewise found solace in the Gold Box games.
Anyway, classic Red Box was also my gateway drug. Present for Christmas '83, with a somewhat convoluted origin. It had a label on it indicating it was a gift from my older brother, but he was intensely anti-materialistic that year and actually had opted out of giving or recieving christmas presents, and my parents thought it would be embarrassing if he didn't give anyone in the family a gift, so they bought presents by proxy for him. He was not pleased, as I recall.
Ah... I was 14 so it should have been... 1992, yeah... A friend came home with The Call of Cthulhu and insisted we play. I had already a ton of "choose your own adventure" books at home, so how could I say no?
That friend didn't stay interested in rpgs, but he lit the fire...
My most played games have been Rolemaster, Star Wars d6, D&D 3/3.5, WoD (WW:tA more than anyone), Earthdawn, PF1, L5R (of which I was also a hardcore CCG player), 7th Sea and surely more...
I've been seeing a lot of WoD. Forgot to add VtM 5e to the list of what I've played. Kinda embarrassing considering that I'm currently in a game right now.
I was reading some Lone Wolf choose-your-own-adventures, and my math teacher in 5th grade noticed it. "Have you heard of D&D?"
I had not. I thought it was a board game.
I got the 2e DMG and PHB for my birthday, right around when they came out, and I was over the moon. Saved up to get the Monstrous Compendium, too. I got my friends interested in it, and for a while we played (it turned into freeform, as the only one who wanted to DM didn't want rules holding him back - that sucked, DM-PCs everywhere, but that's another story), then I moved to this country with my family.
That was around the time the world was discovering the internet. I was immediately hooked on this amazing new medium. And the gold box games!
Played mostly VtM, like a lot of others around that time, but unlike most of you, my experience online has been chiefly D&D (various editions) and Pathfinder 1e. Just a sprinkling of other things like CoC at cons. And I've mostly played online since then.
I'm actually running 11 PBEMs at the moment. The call of the DM got me in the end, haha. But once in a while it's nice to be on the other side of the equation.
Though in retrospect, trying to avoid clichés and leave room for the interesting part of his career being in the future, I may have made Kael a bit too bland to be selected. :/ Well, here's hoping.
TL;DR: I don't have a lot of experience with other systems than D&D 2e and 3.5e, and PF1, but I cut my teeth on the Forgotten Realms, and I'm happy to see that the "old days" in them aren't just nostalgic for me! I read all the FR books up until around '97, and that's still how I picture the Realms (apart from the Time of Troubles books. Blech.).
The Baldur's Gate games came out when I was in the equivalent of high school in this country, I think, and I never played them. :( I think I would have loved them as a kid, but these days I never seem to have the time to learn how to play a new game. But I have many fond memories of pixel art characters trouncing black dragons in gold box games, haha.
The year after my dad passed my best friend introduced me to the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, and to 1E AD&D. I then worked over to the Red Box and friends, 2E, and so on, with the odd pitstop for Rolemaster and Rifts and some Marvel Superheroes.
I started with 2E AD&D in 1996/7, largely setting agnostic. The original Baldur's Gate introduced me to the Realms and it's been my setting of choice ever since. We switched to 3/3.5E when it came out and my career as forever DM began. Spent plenty of time on the old mailing list and the Candlekeep forums back in the day, and played some PBP/PBEM too. Looked at 4E but wasn't taken with it and combined with the heavy investment and familiarity made the logical switch to PF 1E. And absolutely noped out at the destruction of the Realms. Then came a lengthy hiatus as I moved, started jobs, and my old group broke up as we scattered, and I fell off for quite a while. Then with the pandemic I dug out a load of my old books and got hooked back into the Realms, before getting back into a couple of games a while later.
The weather in the Heartlands has been especially miserable, making travel across the Dales more difficult than usual. In the end, the below six adventurers find themselves standing before the House of the High Councilor on the 22nd of Mirtul...
THE RECRUITS
AdamWarnock - Mia Curseborn Female Tiefling Fighter 3 / Unchained Rogue 1
SmooshieBanana - Lilianne Nightshade Female Sun Elf Ranger (Freebooter/Warden) 4
Jereru - Corwynt Winterbreeze Male Elf Magus (Kensai/Hexcrafter) 4
Camris - Ahrendue Sarrieth Female Half-Elf Cleric of Sune / VMC Sorcerer 4
Slowdrifter - Aelanurel Silvermist Female Moon Elf Witch (Mirror Witch/Hex Channeler) 4
Linnae the Diviner - Rissa Farseer Female Rock Gnome Foresight Wizard (Scroll Scholar) 4
Those listed above, please report over to the Discussion thread. To everyone else, thank you so much for your creativity and interest. Should any slots open up, I will be in touch.
You know, this is the second time I've been in a game where every party member except for the wizardy-type with no social skills was a girl/woman. Given how much I liked the game the last time this happened, I have high hopes for this one. :D
Thank you for picking me. I'm stoked to get started. I know that this was not an easy decision, but in the immortal words of schadenfreude enjoys the world over, better you than me. :D
Good luck to everyone else! May your dice always roll 20's!
Thanks for the acceptance!
And this will be the second game I'm in in which I play the guy with no social skills and the rest are all girls/women :p
Thank you for the selection, GM :)
Enjoy the game everyone!
Congratulations to those selected! Have fun!
Congrats to you all!
Best to you all! Have a great time :D
Here's to hoping for TPK in the first encounter.... Just kidding. Congrats and have fun!
Aw, had a good feeling about this one. Too bad, but congrats to those picked, hope y'all have fun!