Urm... This is a hard one.
In reality I started when I was a kid with just "playing around" or "pretending" even back then I used to make up cool rules and worlds for me and the others I used to play with. Before I knew what it was I had already taken up the mantle of game-master...
Years...
Do you only play your own gender?
No I have RPed male and female characters numerous times before. It more just depends on my image of the character and what tropes/conventions I want to either stick with or subvert. I am pretty comfortable either way. I have noticed I have a bit of a tendency...