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In from the wilderness

I had been a RPG'er for many years starting the early 80's at the tender age of 8 with a borrowed copy of the D&D red box, throughout my school college and university years and had been running and playing in many games with many groups, but after I graduated I entered the wilderness years, games became harder to organize, constant shifting of games and players combined with the influx of CCG's and Online MMO's sapped mine and the players will to keep running games, after a few years I pretty much lost touch with industry as a whole being drawn into playing various MMO's instead :) A few months ago, In a fit of nostalgia a friend of a friend wanted to run a game of D&D and I was invited, but unfortunately the game imploded before It started, but this planted the seed of running a game again, a little internet searching brought up Roll20, I asked around a few old friends and although split across the country with various child, career and spousal commitments we started a game. A few false starts later a we have a BFRPG game running nicely, and hopefully will do for the foreseeable future, although this story is not much more than an anecdote I can say that Roll 20 is responsible for re-invigorating my interest in "tabletop" RPG's and bringing them into the internet era. So er yeah all good stuff, has anyoen else had a simillar experience of has it been a transition from table to tablet for most players?
My experience is very similar to yours, without Roll20 I wouldn't be running a game right now. My players are anywhere from 50 to 1300 miles away.
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Nearly ten years ago I moved away from my main group of gaming friends. I tried to find a new one in the new town but it is rather hard given that this place is kinda...backwater. The groups I did manage to find (three to date) never worked out as people where either just killing off each others characters, viewing the game as a tactical strat game (no inter-character interactions) or moved away. I hadn't gamed in years when I found roll20 and then I spent my first 6 months as a member rather apprehensive, as my luck with real life players did not want me to put myself out there. So it kinda stayed in the background. However I eventually decided to run a game and it was the best thing to happen. Now I run several weekly games, two of which are podcasts. All of which is owed to this awesome site.
Transition from Table... no still playing table games. Transition from forum games, yes.
Last summer the apocalypse hit our gaming group. We are east coast, and have been gaming together since high school (graduated 1993). However, work and family finally took us across the country and we are now in 3 separate time zones.For a while I tried finding local groups but it's tough. Yu develop a certain style with a group you may be reticent to break. I was also very arrogant. A couple of the games I tried were with people i just didn't see myself hanging out with. However, gaming personalities and styles are huge to a good group. Too much roleplay, too little roleplay, rules lawyering...whatever the case may be. It wasn't just rpgs, it's also games like Warhammer that I was now missing. I was lucky and actually found a good local DnD group, but still - it's gaming with fellow gamers, not necessarily friends. Roll20 has brought our group back together, to a degree. Though those on opposite coasts are still trying to find a way to make it work.I would not wholly abandon the table, but as you said life doesn't always allow table groups - roll20 does. Lol Sounds like an informercial testimonial. :)