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• Albus: Dad, I’m…gay.
• Harry: Albus Severus Potter. You were named after two Headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was gay And he was the wisest man I’ve ever known
• Albus: Dad, you say this every time i tell you something. stop. just stop.
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• A: Dad, would you mind buying some conditioner? I think we’re out
• H: Albus Severus Potter. You were named for two Headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them never used conditioner and he was probably the greasiest man I ever knew
• A: Dad this response is really getting old
• H: TWO HEADMASTERS
• A: Yes, I get it two hea—
• H: BRAVEST AND WISEST MEN”
• A: Da—”
• H: THAT I EVER KNEW”
• BRAVEST AND WISEST”
• TWO OF THEM”

REVERB GAMERS 2012, #1: What was your first roleplaying experience? Who introduced you to it? How did that introduction shape the gamer you’ve become?

I guess my first roleplaying experience is similar to Daniel’s in that I don’t remember a lot of it and it didn’t really get me into D&D. I was nine or ten years old at the time, and every day after school I had to hang out in the children’s’ section of my local library while I waited for my parents to pick me up — it was that or walk home, and that was a good 45-minute walk in the Florida sun so I usually passed on that. One day, while I was randomly browsing the shelves, I found a really old D&D bestiary. I mean like probably first edition, from-the-70s old. My 5th-grader brain decided that this was all one needed to play a game of D&D, and also decided that I would be playing as Ra the Sun God, who could do a whole mess of ridiculous shit including, like, destroying the entire universe as a standard action (that is almost certainly exaggerated to a degree). So I photocopied Ra’s stats (and some other, random pages) at a copy machine that was supposed to be used purely for academic research, and then “DMed” a session or two for my younger brother and one of my cousins, who waited at the library with me. I don’t actually remember what happened in those sessions except that there was no combat at all and it was mostly just me telling my brother and cousin an interactive story.

My first time roleplaying where I knew what I was doing (well, sort of, anyway) is actually the one Daniel talks about in his post. I don’t actually remember making my own character — I’m pretty sure Trogchok the Half-Orc, Lawful Good Monk was rolled up by Daniel for me, because I probably didn’t have the patience to make my own character at the time. But I’m glad he rolled Trogchok for me, because he’s since become my default character in a whole mess of other RPGs I’ve played — there’s been Trogchok the Wookie Jedi in Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars tabletop, Chuck Trogson the Martial Artist in Pokemon Tabletop Adventures (yes, this is a thing that exists), and I’ve incorporated him as an NPC in just about every tabletop I’ve GMed since then.

But I digress. As Daniel mentioned, we all took turns DMing, with wildly different results each time. We all rolled new characters for Jon’s campaign, for which he had created a number of entirely new races; Colin’s was a hysterical and at times completely nonsensical journey where we performed autopsies on “dead” ninjas filled with candy instead of blood and guts (and where I was awarded a 5-pound Bad Math Sign for an arithmetic error); and Tommy, another friend of ours, introduced us to the concept of Hero Points (known to us then as Drama Points), which we later discovered are in numerous tabletops. I don’t remember a lot about my own session except that I didn’t know nearly enough about DMing for it to not feel like an exhausting chore — since then, however, I’ve come to enjoy it, if not as much as playing.

It was a long time after that that I finally picked up tabletop games again, but when I did (the summer of my sophomore year of college), it started me down the surprisingly-slippery slope to complete and utter tabletop nerdery. I now own a set of Pathfinder books (thanks to Tommy the Hero-Point Guy) and I’ve GMed several sessions of Mutants and Masterminds, in addition to having played the above-mentioned games. I guess I’ve come a long way since then, or something.

Will I Ever Post Here? Who Knows: Reverb Gamers 2012: Sure Let's Do This

REVERB GAMERS 2012 MASTER LIST
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REVERB GAMERS 2012, #1: What was your first roleplaying experience? Who introduced you to it? How did that introduction shape the gamer you’ve become?
REVERB GAMERS 2012, #2: What is it about gaming that…

Well, I guess now I’m doing this too.

Edit: What the hell, I wanted to reblog the entire list for reference. How do I Tumblr

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Davy, Chameleon Twist, N64

This was one of the very first games I bought with my own money. I picked it up because the cover was cute, and BAM. Weird game ahoy! It’s pretty terrible, but I loved it back then.

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NyanCat The Movie, orchestrated by Blake Robinson

Because memes can be played by an orchestra too :D This is an orchestrated version of the Nyan Cat song, originally written by DaniWellP.