D&D General What got you to try D&D?

[pukunui]

Some friends/classmates started playing in 7th grade and invited me to join them. I'm not sure how long they'd been playing before I joined, but I quickly ended up being the primary DM, even though I had no idea what I was doing.

 

[Dyson Logos]

Peer Pressure.

It was 1979 and all the cool kids were playing it.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Some of the guys in my Vampire:TM group decided it would be fun to try a different game, and I tagged along.

 

[Perun]

A series of short articles in a youth magazine in the early 90s was when I found out about the game, but I couldn't find the books or a group. A year or two later I found out a then-aquaintance-now-friend played. We managed to find a group of interested people, and as we cast a wide net, it lead to a hillarious situation where we believed that two unrelated groups were starting a D&D game at the same time We played until 4e came out, basically...

Then I moved countries, and an accidental facebook post by a colleague/friend revealed that he was a D&D fan, who managed, quite by accident, to meet other D&D fans on a rafting trip just days before... I managed to miss the first session, but joined afterwards. And then COVID happened, and some people moved away to different countries and/or continents...

 

[Nikosandros]

They actually crossed over once or twice, presumably for laughs and to confuse librarians and historians in the future.

Yes, the American SJ wrote the Fighting Fantasy book Scorpion Swamp. I only learned that he was not the British one many years after having played the book...

 

[Nikosandros]

But you did promote the great first two parts of the Sorcery! trilogy, which I failed to do. An extremely hard mini-campaign to complete, but man, is it atmospheric. (The modern day digital adaptation from Inkle is worth checking out, if you haven't.)

Yes, Sorcery! was great. I made the effort to actually learn by heart the spell names, as the rules techically required.

 

[Zardnaar]

This is heresy on this side of the Atlantic, but I honestly think the first six Fighting Fantasy books (minus the terrible Spaceship Traveller, which is basically a terrible Choose Your Own Adventure book with a bit of dice rolling) are a better intro to RPGs than anything since.

(Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Citadel of Chaos, Forest of Doom, City of Thieves and Deathtrap Dungeon, for the uninitiated.)

These and Lone Wolf books for me. Lone Wolf was similar to Fighting Fantasy but metaphot and you leveled up and carried your stuff forward.

 

[Nikosandros]

Thise and Line Wolf books for me. Lone Wolf was similar to Fighting Fantasy but metaphot and you leveled up and carried your stuff forward.

Lone Wolf came out in Italy more or less at the same time as when the Red Box was translated. It was such a huge hit that I received the fist book as a Christmas gift from two different persons!

 

[Zardnaar]

Lone Wolf came out in Italy more or less at the same time as when the Red Box was translated. It was such a huge hit that I received the fist book as a Christmas gift from two different persons!

I still have mine. Started 1989 for me.

 

[cbwjm]

These and Lone Wolf books for me. Lone Wolf was similar to Fighting Fantasy but metaphot and you leveled up and carried your stuff forward.

I remember having some books similar to lone wolf where things carried over, but you were a ninja. It was pretty cool.

There were also a series (maybe only 4 or so books) that I believe were set on the lone wolf world but you played as a wizard.