I wanna try role playing games

No...that's not what you're thi...this is hard to admit, okay?

The past few months i've gotten back in touch with some childhood passions: I've started reading comic books regularly again. I bought an NES emulator and had a field day downloading all the games I ever wanted to play, but could never afford when they were going for fifty bucks a pop at the toys R us.

But i've only played roleplaying games twice. Once in college where Dan Walker tried to walk me through creating a some kind of cyberpunk, skateboard hacker/thief type thing but we got too drunk to actually start hacking mainframes and fighting orcs (or whatever).

The second time was when i worked for Idaho Shakespeare festival where the entire shop crew got together to play a campaign (as they're known) on our days off. It was fun, from what i remember, but we never got to finish it for a variety of reasons...one of them involving sexual shenanegins with a church going mormon, and another involving derogatory language towards a lesbian. Neither of which i was involved in BTW.

It's the damndest thing. If i wanted, say, to try skiing, or kickball, or any number of other hobbies...i know who to talk to. But for RPGs? is that the final frontier of nerd acceptance? When comic book movies are the #1 movies in America, and the video game industry are worth billions, are Role Playing Games still in the closet kinda?

At the very least, I don't know who to go to for this particular need, but if you're reading this and you have a "Friend" that might be interested in taking my hand and lead me into this strange, and orc-filled world...well, let's just say i'm "Try-Curious."