Moiraine: great to see you up and posting again !
My own story is rather short and boring: BGI was my first ever CRPG, so consequently BG II is my second. I don't no anybody else who plays CRPGs, so when I stumbled onto the Ironworks site - don't remember what I was looking for - and then onto the old board I was first interested in ontopic stuff, not so much about getting information I could use but more on another perspective on things I had thought about so much. Even though I was at first mostly interested in ontopic stuff I shared Moiraine's resentment of boards populated by male teenagers "being way cool". Since I had never entered a board before, in my case that notion was not based on experience, but on prejudice and stereotypes - for what a pleasant surprise I was in !
I kept lurking for about a month, then shortly before Xmas I took the dive...
So this is basically one of my best Xmas presents ever - thanks everyone !
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So long !
R³ - Co-president(s) of the Club of Broken Hearts