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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7122217" data-attributes="member: 20323">Welcome to ENWorld Seth <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Yeah, that certainly sounds like a challenging environment to find fellow gamers in, but you'd be surprised! We're everywhere!I think D&D is best learned through osmosis through friends, your cousin would be ideal. Have you ever seen or participated in a D&D game before? If not, there are lots of live streams online to learn the game. Organized play at public venues (Adventurer's League) is also good, but likely a scarce opportunity or else too far from where you are. As a last resort, you could try an online tabletop like Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds (there may be others now) or even play-by-post –– personally, while those are great options for gaming, I don't recommend them when learning the game at first. Face-to-face really is the best way to learn D&D.I remember I got into D&D back in Boston from my friend Mike (rip) whose older brother DMed a game. Classic dungeon-crawling and beer-drinking stuff. I was 8 IIRC, so the older guys were beer drinking. And we indeed played in their family's basement.When we moved to San Diego, I think I was 10 or 11, I enrolled in a summer camp that had D&D as an extracurricular, and I played the party rogue in the A-series modules (Slavers). A lot of fun. I got killed by traps so many times, they had a special rogue resurrection fund. Playing with strangers gave me more confidence, and made me realize I wanted to try DMing.A year later I met my friend Jarett at a Ray Bradbury book-signing at UCSD. There was a power outage due to storms, and I ended up chatting with Jarett about Fahrenheit 451 and other books, and somehow got on the topic of D&D and I invited him to play. For a bit it was just me DMing for him. Then I bought the Planescape books, and met my friend Vishal in junior high who was interested, so I ended up DMing a Planescape game for the two of them.I played a little through a club, with roommates and mutual friends in college. But then I left the hobby for many years until I moved to Honolulu and had a serendipitous encounter with an old high school friend Charlotte who'd moved to Honolulu with her spouse and son, and they happened to have a D&D game running.You never know! In my experience, a lot of people are "D&D curious" but never get the opportunity because they don't know anyone, they're worried about persistent stigma or getting teased, or just because geeks can tend to be more introverted.</blockquote>

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