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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atanakar" data-source="post: 7999458" data-attributes="member: 65762">At the beginning of the 80s there were no gaming stores as we have them today. You either went to the toy store or the hobby store to buy D&D. As long as we bought miniature rockets or plastic model cars my friends and I were valued customers. When we switched to D&D we weren't so much anymore. The staff had no clue what it was and were not interested in it. They became dismissive and unfriendly. I'm no grateful for that.In those days very few people played D&D. Our group of 8 rotating players lost 2 players when they discovered CoC and said D&D was bad. We lost another 2 when they discovered Traveller and said Star Frontiers was bad. We never found replacements. I'm no grateful for having a low pool of possible players.My religious aunt tried to convince my mother D&D was satanic. I'm no grateful for that.The thing I'm grateful for, despite these events, is that my friend and I managed to play/DM two AD&D1e home-brew campaigns concurrently from level 1 to level 12. But I'm not nostalgic of that time because I did the same with AD&D2e. After that with 3e and 20 Modern. Now I'm doing the same with 5e. The level of fun when I DM increased with time because I've got better at it over the years. I'm grateful for that.</blockquote>