why won't they grow for me!

[tiggyann]

I have tried and tried to get my chocolate bell pepper seed to germinate and they won't. I tried to get them to germinate by putting wet paper towels along with the seeds in plastic bags, didn't work. Think they rotted or something. Then I read that you need heat for them. So put new seeds in bag and put on top of towel and then on top of heating pad. Got pack got hot so I moved it afraid it will ruin the seeds. and the next day I had one little sprout that broke on me and then nothing else. Does it really require that much heat to get peppers to sprout or what am I doing wrong? I really want the some peppers, but they just don't seem to work for me.