Did your parents get you into gaming?

[Olaf the Stout]

Nope. If it was anyone I would say it was my home group teacher in my first year of high school. She ran a few lunchtime sessions for me and my friends. That was more than enough to get me hooked.

I hope that my children follow in my gaming footsteps but I'm not going to force them to play (my wife isn't a gamer). If they are interested I will be more than happy to run something for them.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Aeric]

Sort of. My dad read Tolkien to me when I was little, and he took me to the hobby store to buy my first D&D books after I saw the kids playing in E.T. I got the red boxed set, a couple of miniatures, and the Palace of the Silver Princess module...I can still remember to this day (almost 30 years later) the excitement, the sense of wonder and the unknown, of that moment. I don't know if I'll ever have kids, but if I do, I would love to provide for them a moment like that one. Thanks, Dad!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Even though my Dad introduced me to sci-fi/fantasy and comic books, I'm the first and AFAIK only gamer in my family.

Most of them don't get it at all. At least one thinks I'm going to hell.

 

[Mishihari Lord]

My mom was my first DM back in 1980. I was ten. We played for about a year then I started DMing for my friends.

 

[RFisher]

Effectively I was asking who was a 2nd generation (or later) hobby gamer.

Thanks for the clarification. Affirmative vote cast.

 

[Zaukrie]

First generation, but my kids both play, and we are also getting their friends involved.

 

[awayfarer]

When we were kids, mom told us that D&D was evil. The net result was that I was pushed into a life of hardcore console RPG'ing. I've probably played the first four Dragon Warrior games at least a dozen times each.

Funny thing is that I got into gaming roughly at the same time I moved away from my folks. It's a coincidence. I met my S/O around the same time and she got me into gaming.

 

[Mycanid]

I voted no ... but my folks definitely encouraged my gaming.

Early on they would buy me books, and they always were fine with my friends coming over to the house and going for all nighters.

My mom would even cook us some food and desert at times!

 

[RFisher]

they always were fine with my friends coming over to the house and going for all nighters.

Heh. As a parent myself now, I realize how smart my parents were for letting me host things instead of wondering where I was. (^_^)

 

[Wombat]

I voted no, although, like Wombat, some explanation is necessary.

My parents bought me the blue box at my request. My dad liked Avalon Hill wargames (although he rarely had time to play them), and I think they thought of this new game (D&D) as a sort of imaginary wargame.

But after I fell hook, line and sinker into D&D, my parents began to discourage it since they wanted me 'well-rounded'.

...Meester Reeek?

Ex-inhabitant of Gelwich-Aquarda?