A Brief History of my RP days
I started playing RPG (Role Playing Game)at
the age of ...14.
One day I walked down the streets
and passed by a shop (which might be
weird to you guys who are not living in
Hong Kong as that shop sold
not only stationery stuffs but computer
software - illegal copies of course.)
I bought a game there called "Wizardry
7 - Crusaders of the
Dark Savant" which is a fantasty RPG.
The
"box" of the game, though
I do not have it.
screen
shot of Wiz7
( Wizardry 8 is comming, but
I really doubt if
it would be avaliable in Hong
Kong... )
It was pretty hard for me to start in
the beginning. Most
teeners in Hong Kong at that time
and even now can read/write/
speak/understand English very poorly
(though I was not as poor
as most others) And you will never
understand how difficult it is
if you are to play a game in a foreign
language (especially
when you have to go through a thick player's
guide...)
After a couple of years' playing somehow
I finished the game.
(with a little help from a friend of mine
who got the hints) It was
a bit difficult to play, but once I got
the general idea I began to
enjoy the game - To watch the players
"grow", to interact with
those A.I. NPCs (Non-Player-Characters)
who would respond
"Same to you" if you say foul things to
them . 8) I got addicted
to this kind of game and tried others
like Menzoberranzan
(This time an AD&D computer
game) and many others.
Then I joined the Hong Kong WarGame
Club and had a taste
of RPing with other people. At first
I was puzzled.... What the hell
were those guys doing with those funny-looking
dices? And if they
were RPing, why it seems that they need
almost NOTHING
except those dices, pencils and papers?
I found the answer
myself later -
No matter how many handbooks/maps...etc
you have, no matter how high the level
of your character is,
if you lack the will to IMAGINE and to
interact with other players,
you will never have fun.
The
sketch of my **very first** character
in a quest with an AD&D
Planescape back-
ground. The work is about...6
years old
( I was about 16 when I drew
that. ) The
character, Marcus (Just a randomly
picked
name), was a swordsman who
wore a suit of
funny-looking armor made of
crystal and bore
a sword also made of crystal.
(Though he was
just a level one charater when
the game
began....)
2
really silly cartoon about the character which
were used to help explaining
what the character
is about to the DMs.
Alright if I am to tell it all here I
'm sure you will all
be bored to death.... Now I still RP with
other people
but in a quite different way. Though Yahoo
chat sucks
I just like being there, RPing with lots
of people like me.
I began in the area "Teens" but now I
prefer A&E
(Arts and Enetertainiment) 'cuz people
play flavor there.
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