Role Play.

I'll have to say that I have never made a serious effort at role playing games, but I've gotten curious a few times. The first was after I had read most of the Gor books. After the first two or three, I only kept reading them because I had exhausted all the David Weber books, and hoped that John Norman would eventually improve with practice.

At the time, I was enduring the last gasps of a rotten 40 year marriage. Yes, I know I should be flogged for staying with a bad marriage for 40 years.

So, anyhow, the Gor people simply had no communication skills at all, and began yelling at me as soon as I told them that I wanted to be a slave. They started out sounding like Army DI's at boot camp and I eventually just left. Had their approach been more gently instructive ... no that would have required brains.

So later, Second Life came out and I went there but as soon as I got my avatar to function, some jackass walked through and killed me. Well my computer at the time was a laptop with virtually no graphics capability, so Second Life was a bust too.

Well, I would really like to learn more about gaming, if it is going to be around. I know that there are a few people here on BCTS that are like total gaming freaks. Is there a relatively painless way for someone who is not a geek to learn about it?

Gwendolyn