Was Santa Claus the reason you started playing D&D?

[Scott_Rouse]

I posted this as a thread over on the WotC boards but since some of you don't post there I thought it was an interesting question to pose over here also.

From the WotC thread

I was talking with some people at work about how they were first introduced to D&D. One person mentioned that he started playing because he had gotten the Red Box (Basic Rules Set 1) for Christmas. For him, that was the beginning of a lifetime of gaming and playing all sorts of games including RPGs, TCGs, board games, and MMORPGs.

That got me to wondering how many people started playing D&D because someone gave it to them as a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, a birthday, or some other gift giving occasion. Was that you?

Have you ever been the person who gave D&D as a gift and is that person still playing?

Are you giving someone D&D as gift this holiday season?

Hey and if you are on Facebook you can become a fan of this page and let that special someone know you want D&D for the holidays

 

[I'm A Banana]

Nah, but it's not a bad idear to buy some kid D&D for Christmas.

 

[Scott_Rouse]

Nah, but it's not a bad idear to buy some kid D&D for Christmas.

I agree!

I don't know many kids that are old enough yet so I am gonna grab a few RPG starters from the company store and put them in the Toys for Tots barrel. It's my randomized make a new D&D player initiative.

 

[demiurge1138]

Birthday present, not Christmas.

But the basic idea is the same.

 

[Delta]

Games Magazine. Great uncle gave me a subscription age ~10, 1980, and the editorials were raving about it (plus advertising). Requested it (Holmes basic) for my birthday.

 

[Dan23]

I might be the only person this ever happened to, but I actually got interested in D&D after watching the D&D movie in theaters. Soon after, I went out and got 3E stuff and taught myself how to DM and play.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

While I didn't get started to thanks to a gift, nor started someone thanks to a gift. I have received plenty of D&D (and other P&P) as a gift and vice-versa.

So perhaps maybe not start, but gift-giving certainly has helped build it.

I don't have facebook so can't join the group (side note: please launch a non-facebook version of Tiny Adventures).

 

[Truth Seeker]

What!!?? You assume someone does not post there...

No Egg nog for you.

I posted this as a thread over on the WotC boards but since some of you don't post there I thought it was an interesting question to pose over here also.

From the WotC thread

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Nope. I asked my mother to buy me the one-volume British edition of the red box Basic Set when I saw it on a sale table at a bookstore in 1990, because I'd read about the game in the novelisation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

The odd thing was, it was an adult novelisation of the film - I don't know where it is now, but I clearly remember the scene where Eliot's mother is listening to the kids play D&D while lying down in her bedroom with a headache, and deciding to get up to check on them when she hears them discussing a "portable hole", worried that it sounded vaguely dirty.

 

[Mishihari Lord]

Yep. Got it for Christmas, 1980. I was 10 years old.