I started GM'ing for friends in high school during lunch breaks (and *ahem* lesson breaks).

Quite often we'd roleplay freeform using some of the background and story from an rpg, or we'd come up with our own rules and setting.

My favourite campaigns from back then were champions, wfrp, dark conspiracy and d&d. Our DM for the d&d game drew up maps in the back of his maths textbook…man, we never did make it to that black dragon though

At the moment I'd love to be DM'ing again but my current group is really getting it's teeth into board games. Hopefully I can steer 'em towards some rpg action soon!

I migrated to AD&D and ran that for probably about 10 years, dabbled very, very, very, briefly with MERP. I GM'd Paranoia, played shadowrun, runequest, CoC and probably about a dozen others whilst at university.

After that I lost interest until 3e came along, ran one game before becoming a regular 3.5 player. I GM Star Wars for my playing group and am now running my first 4e campaign.

Of course I think this qualifies me to write a blog advising other people how to play the game but that's because all dragons have a really high opinion of themselves, particularly old silver ones.
.-= Argent´s last blog ..Handling a Major Battle in 4e Part 2 =-.

For me, I pretty much started getting into RPG by myself and needing a bunch of friends to play this game with me, I took up the job. It seems I haven't quit since then.