> a few weird french ones I dont remember the name.
French guy here- I'm not sure why (well I have a few ideas, but they aren't very developed), but pen and paper role playing games were (relatively) super popular in France, and are still to this day. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, there were several PNP RPG magazines distributed nationwide (Casus Belli, Backstab, Graal, etc.). I may be wrong, but it seems that only the US surpassed France on that point.
I was hooked from the age of 10 or so. I had been reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books for a few years, and one day I learned about Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly my local library didn't have a copy of the books, and I didn't have any allowance at the time, so I invented universes and rules on my own and played the games with my brothers. I later played some D&D, L5R, WoD in middle/high school, and read ton of custom rulesets/settings I found on the internet.
Good times :)
(and I did nostalgia quite a bit the other day by buying a bunch of used RPG books on Amazon that I had wanted as a kid but could never buy. They're going away for dirt cheap now!)
French guy here- I'm not sure why (well I have a few ideas, but they aren't very developed), but pen and paper role playing games were (relatively) super popular in France, and are still to this day. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, there were several PNP RPG magazines distributed nationwide (Casus Belli, Backstab, Graal, etc.). I may be wrong, but it seems that only the US surpassed France on that point.
I was hooked from the age of 10 or so. I had been reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books for a few years, and one day I learned about Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly my local library didn't have a copy of the books, and I didn't have any allowance at the time, so I invented universes and rules on my own and played the games with my brothers. I later played some D&D, L5R, WoD in middle/high school, and read ton of custom rulesets/settings I found on the internet.
Good times :)
(and I did nostalgia quite a bit the other day by buying a bunch of used RPG books on Amazon that I had wanted as a kid but could never buy. They're going away for dirt cheap now!)