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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8109688" data-attributes="member: 508">I was introduced to AD&D 1st edition by my cousins in 1978 or thereabouts.  We only got to see them a couple times a year, and one time when they came to visit us they brought along a homemade dungeon and some pregenerated PCs.  That Christmas, my brothers and I asked for (and received) the three core rule books for Christmas and we got to start playing the game all the time, not just when our cousins came to visit.  That lasted until 1982, when I went away to college.I didn't do much gaming in college and then went into the Air Force in 1987.  Two years into my Air Force career, my missile combat crew partner brought a Dragon magazine on alert and let me read it while he was on his sleep shift.  That brought back a lot of fond memories for me, and I soon thereafter subscribed to both Dragon and Dungeon, living vicariously through those magazines without actually getting to play.  But I was married with kids by then, and when my kids were old enough I introduced them to RPGs through the gateway drug of HeroQuest, then started up an AD&D 2E game for them, initially using adventures from the pages of Dungeon before I started crafting my own.  Those campaigns lasted until my sons both went to college, and then it was a dry spell again.But D&D gave me a creative outlet, eventually even gaining me some money on the side as a freelance writer during the 2E and early 3.0/3.5 days.  And then, some 14 or 15 years ago, a friend of mine from work found out I had played D&D (as had he) and asked me to DM a campaign to teach his 8-year-old son the game.  (It was 3.5 by then - that was the current edition.)  That campaign lasted 9 years, and eventually included his wife and other son, and my now-grown sons (one fairly regularly, one somewhat sporadically).  But then there was a 5-year follow-on campaign after that, and when that one ended earlier this year I started up my current campaign, which is currently on COVID hold.  But by youngest son has also taken up the DM reins and runs a 3.5 campaign (also currently on COVID hold) in which I'm a player, and both our campaigns now include my 13-year-old nephew, who's been gaming with us since he was 10.Johnathan</blockquote>

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