“Hello! Hurray! Let the show begin I’m ready.” Alice Cooper.

So what is todays soul searching question about RPGs?

“Who introduced you to RPGs?”

I’ve mentioned before in a previous post how I was first introduced to RPGs.

To save you clicking the link and getting bored even more. It can be summarised succinctly as I stumbled into them.

There wasn’t a particular person that introduced me to them.

I had no friends into them. They were more interested in video games. After all this was at the height of the UK home computer boom. Heck it consumed my life too. Not just playing video games. But coding as well. Where as the majority of my friends stopped there not expanding their horizons. Computers for me helped me grow. Exposing me to new things that a teenager in a fenland market town wouldn’t normally get exposed to.

If I had to name a particular person. I couldn’t. For the reasons above.

But you could argue, and I wouldn’t disagree. That a good case could be made that the staff writers of those early video game magazines that wrote about RPGs were the ones that introduced me to RPGs.

I think I owe them a big big thank you for doing so.

So who introduced you to RPGs?