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<blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1763701" data-attributes="member: 13471">I got started on D&amp;D around, oh, 10 or 11 I guess - 1977 or thereabouts.&nbsp; Ever since I was 4 or 5 I'd been making up stories and drawings of talking dinosaurs and otter-people (Disney's Dinosaur was kind of a nostalgia trip for me).&nbsp; We were camping in the Rockies with my Aunt Jeanie and Uncle Tom, and Tom had a gaming magazine.&nbsp; In those days &quot;gaming&quot; was boardgames and wargames, but this mag had an article about a strange new game.&nbsp; Tom said, &quot;You're always writing stories and stuff, you might be interested in this.&quot;&nbsp; I was, and I bugged my parents until they bought the boxed set for Xmas.&nbsp; This was the old blue-and-white set - a few years later the first AD&amp;D books came out, PHB followed by the MM and DMG (DMG was $15, the other two were $12 each; my parents were concerned about spending so much money on a game!).&nbsp; Played AD&amp;D through high school, with occasional excursions into Marvel Super Heroes, Ghostbusters, and Paranoia.&nbsp; In college I got into The Fantasy Trip and then its successor, GURPS, which I played more or less exclusively through college and for several years after.&nbsp; Then the stresses of Real Life intervened, and the old group broke up, and for years I didn't roleplay at all.&nbsp; Recently got back into gaming, first with Magic: the Gathering, then picked up the 3.0 PHB and liked it, started reacquiring all the 3rdEd stuff (missed 2nd Edition altogether).&nbsp; Still have trouble finding people to play with, playing about once every 2-3 months at this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormrunner, post: 1763701, member: 13471"] I got started on D&D around, oh, 10 or 11 I guess - 1977 or thereabouts. Ever since I was 4 or 5 I'd been making up stories and drawings of talking dinosaurs and otter-people (Disney's [I]Dinosaur[/I] was kind of a nostalgia trip for me). We were camping in the Rockies with my Aunt Jeanie and Uncle Tom, and Tom had a gaming magazine. In those days "gaming" was boardgames and wargames, but this mag had an article about a strange new game. Tom said, "You're always writing stories and stuff, you might be interested in this." I was, and I bugged my parents until they bought the boxed set for Xmas. This was the old blue-and-white set - a few years later the first AD&D books came out, PHB followed by the MM and DMG (DMG was $15, the other two were $12 each; my parents were concerned about spending so much money on a game!). Played AD&D through high school, with occasional excursions into Marvel Super Heroes, Ghostbusters, and Paranoia. In college I got into The Fantasy Trip and then its successor, GURPS, which I played more or less exclusively through college and for several years after. Then the stresses of Real Life intervened, and the old group broke up, and for years I didn't roleplay at all. Recently got back into gaming, first with Magic: the Gathering, then picked up the 3.0 PHB and liked it, started reacquiring all the 3rdEd stuff (missed 2nd Edition altogether). Still have trouble finding people to play with, playing about once every 2-3 months at this point. [/QUOTE]

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