As you got sucked in to D&D, when did you know?

[Altalazar]

I have never had any realization that I was 'hooked' or whatever. I just started gaming and never looked back.

Same with me. Though i really never had a good sized, regular gaming group until I hit undergrad. Then I was often gaming 2-3 times per week - Friday night, Saturday night, sometimes Sunday afternoon or some other evening as well. We even had classrooms we could reserve or lounges we could reserve with whiteboards - it was ideal. For years after that, even out of school, I was gaming at least twice a week with two different groups. I had a lot of fun. I'd do it now, too, if I had the time / people.

 

[Believer]

Knowing when I was addicted?

When I started coming to D&D forums and participating.

 

[Ycore Rixle]

I didn't have a single defining moment when I considered myself 'hooked' - I just always knew I loved playing D&D, right from the start.

There is one moment I always remember as being my first "Wow" moment. Back in middle school, when the party beat this hydra that was pictured on the back of L1 The Secret of Bone Hill, the players (my friends) whooped and threw their pencils in the air. I always remember those pencils thudding against the ceiling.

 

[Breakdaddy]

I think I was hooked and knew it after the first game! That was 15 years ago, and I've been playing ever since!

 

[Breakstone]

When I found myself referring to D&D as the "gateway RPG," and selling it to passerbyers on the street corner under a flickering street light, just trying to earn enough money to buy myself another d20.

 

[Dirigible]

This sort of implies that the game lured us in and made us addicts without us knowing it.

Did you get the non-LSD impregnated-pages edition?

When I started coming to D&D forums and participating.

Preach, my brother.


I think I became a true gamer when I started having enough 'pride' (term used very loosely) in what I was creating for the hobby that I stopped blantalty ripping off other authors ideas and started creating my own for the main.

'Course, I've enver enjoyed it as much as those early, innocent, naive sessions

 

[Jeph]

When I got my first "you can't post twice in a minute, stupid" message from the ENBoards...

 

[Zimok]

I just started D&D this weekend with 7 friends , some of wich never played and some of wich played for years...

I enjoyed it alot and looking really forward to new sessions..

nothing compared to you guys 25year history but ones gotta start somewhere

also I registered for these forums today , lol

 

[shilsen]

I got hooked before playing a single session or even seeing a D&D book. I just read about a fantasy-based game which was played totally in your imagination. That was enough for me, and I spent the next couple of years (I was in India, where D&D has never been marketed, AFAIK) waiting for an opportunity to come to the US and check out the game. Guess I'm easy

And a "welcome to the boards" to Zimok. You have been assimilated!

 

[DMScott]

When did you know that you were hooked and couldn't stop playing?

Before I bought the game. 1977, I was 10 and had just finished reading LOTR for the first time. My dad had seen how much I loved the books, and he read an article in the newspaper about this new game sweeping the universities. He showed it to me, I was hooked by the example of play.