I procrastinated starting for a long time too, but after two years I though I should give it a try. (Not sure if I will still have the time for it if I procrastinate longer and once you got a license, you have it for the rest of your life, if you don't screw up, that is.) I'm not good at Mario Kart either, but constantly driving at full speed doesn't seem the cleverest idea to do on a public road. (And then there also these people who like to place traffic lights and such.)
We've only played one session so far, but I must say yes. Most of them were still new to the game (so I stayed up until midnight to help them over Skype with creating their characters the night before), but they picked up the basics very quickly. One of them, ironically one of the experienced players, already messed up by putting on a cursed ring, but I that's his problem (at least I hope it's just his problem, we haven't found out what it does exactly).
That does sound very interesting, are you looking for a specific property of the structure or just randomly experimenting and hoping you'll find something useful? Be sure to send me a link to the article once your group has published something, I'd love to read it. :D
HoMM? I believe I've played it for a bit, but I didn't find it very interesting, but that could also be caused by the fact it was the old Gameboy Color game. I've never tried LoL, I heard it's really hard to get into, with the huge amount of playable characters the game has.
Meanwhile, Christmas has already passed (damn, I took long to reply, sorry for that), but we didn't do much special, just visited some family and played card and board games. It was a lot of fun! Have you done anything interesting?