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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1060279" data-attributes="member: 515">It was the summer of 1980. I was home from college, and I was working at a record store in the mall. It was a chain record store which also had a store in the city where I was attending college, so I just transfered between the two stores.Anyway, a friend of mine I had known since elementary school also was home from college that summer. He asked me if I had ever heard of Dungeons and Dragons. I had heard about, from the news a few years before, but what I had heard hadn't been good. So he tells me he had started playing the game at college. He had heard about it from his older brother, who had graduated from college and gotten a job in New Jersey. His brother played with a bunch of his co-workers.So my friend asks me if I would be interested in playing. I say yeah, I'll give it a try, there wasn't really that much else to do in the small town where we lived. He said that another friend, whom we had both gone to high school with, and that friend's cousin, who was our age, were also going to play.I went over to my friend's house after I got off work one night, and we rolled up my character using the 1E AD&D rules: A human fighter named Dirk Stryker. He had good strength, dex, and constitution, and bad intelligence, wisdom and charisma.A couple of nights later, we got together to play the game. The other guys were playing a cleric and an assassin. My friend who had played before was the DM, and was also playing a magic user since we didn't have one in the group, and he said we really needed one. There also were a couple of NPC fighters.We ran an adventure my friend had made up. We were playing inside a camper trailer in my friend's driveway so we wouldn't disturb his parents. They lived out away from town and didn't have any neighbors close by, so we could laugh and yell and make as much noise as we wanted. There wasn't a clock in the camper, though. When we finished playing that night, we stepped outside and the sun was already coming up. We had played all night. And none of us were tired or sleepy -- we were ready to keep playing. And we did, all summer long, each session lasting until the sun was coming up.Shortly after we started playing, I bought a Player's Handbook, DM Guide and Monster Manual of my own, and soon made my own dungeon and adventure for the group to play.When I went back to college that fall, I transfered back to the record store where I had worked the year before. That company also had another store in town that also sold books, and they carried Dungeons and Dragons stuff. So once a week I would go over to that store and help organize the section where the D&D stuff was kept because I was the only employee at either store who had actually played the game. On the days I was working at the mall store -- the one without books -- the other store was always calling me up, asking me questions that customers had about D&D. I always wondered why they didn't just move me to that store full time.</blockquote>

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