New player needs as much help as he can get!, I just started, Please Help? Options

[Nephyte]

I would point out that a great majority of roleplayers tend to be people who manage to become fairly successful to some degree or another. Also, from my experience a great deal of the people who are of college age (17 - 23) tend to be in college.

Just for example of the people I know who game, those who didn't attend college during the college ages are almost *all* attending post secondary education now (we're in the 23 - 28 category) or have fairly successful jobs (one person runs their own business while at the same time attending the local University/College)

Just something you may want to add in there when persuading your parents.

[Slash_Thompson]

I'd be happy to field questions privately as well if you like, I seem to have specialized in introducing new characters to the game in the past few years (of the 13 players I've GM'd for in the last five years, only about 6 of them had any RPG experience, and of those six, only 2 had prior shadowrun experience.

you can reach my at jts7@pitt.edu my name's joshua, by the way
(to clear up any confusion as to whom to address the email to.)

I also, however, cannot reinforce enough the benefit of learning the game with an actual group (be it online, over chat, or in real-life)

I hope you find your stay here enjoyable, and educational (at least for shadowrun!)

[Urba|\|inja]

Again, Thanks to everyone! I'm learning alot, and as soon as I get my character sorted out and I find a game with a nice learning curve, I'll be ready to run! :D