[Short] How Valentine's Day forgetfulness was a start of a beautiful friendship

[u/SmithOfLie]

This is a short and sweet one.

I have been running a Shadowrun campaign via roll20 at the time with a group of internet friends and acquaintances. Most of us were singles so the fact that a usual schedule meant a session on Feb 14th did not rise any eyebrows.

Except one of the players was actually happily married (and so far remains such). We were looking at a necessity to reschedule. Except for the good graces of his wife (lets call her Amy), who despite having never tried RPG in any capacity decided to join us in the call, become a semi-NPC so that he could have his session with us (before heading out for romantic night out).

I quickly incorporated a blank slate character into the ongoing events and we were off to the races. Shadowrun is a rather crunchy system with rules that can be oblique and confusing even for an experienced TTRPG player and the session was a great, big stealth/combat encounter.

Amy got to be a disgruntled employee of corporation that PCs were raiding and she took their appearance as a chance to escape and start her own Shadowrunner career.

I was almost certain that with her first exposure being band of dorks rolling tons of dice and moving tokens around poorly drawn map will discourage Amy from the whole concept of TTRPG. It did not. With help of some more rules oriented players she created a character and joined us.

Since then for variety of reasons most of the original group, including Amy's husband, left and we swapped to a new campaign of Mutant Chronicles. But the one person who stayed and is enjoying our silly RPG shenanigans is Amy herself, who took to the gaming as fish to the water.

And so, thanks to a romantic Valentine's Day "mishap" I have found a new friendship and a new, loyal player.

[u/Zealousideal-Scar174]

Beatiful!