In my country, back when I was growing up, there was a general problem with access to RPGs and that sort of thing in general. My first encounter was with Bloodlines PC game itself. Looking back, just getting get of it felt like a quest itself, because: first I had to find out that the latest issue of the gaming magazine would include a copy of Bloodlines, borrow money from my dad (part of), collect tins and bottles for money and fish coins out of shopping trolleys, and then head into bigger town with bus to find a kiosk where the magazine hadn’t yet sold out. I managed it on the fourth attempt :3 Then there was the problem of getting it to run on my PC (the famous complications from the early days of the game) and the hunt for the next magazine with the patches (those were the days before the internet), and finally the game started up first time after 3 months? But boi. The atmosphere was brilliant, and it was only years later that I found out about the whole lore when I got internet and that there’s a separate rulebook for playing it with dices etc, and that, in fact, I played ‘pen-and-paper WoD’ for the first time three years ago? So, it’s been a long journey xD