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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5766324" data-attributes="member: 5868">Like most kids who got told to play outside, I played a lot of &quot;make believe&quot; with friends running around (soldiers, Star Wars, cops &amp; robbers, etc).&nbsp; Even playing with Legos or Star Wars figures had an aspect of roleplaying, so I was primed for RP introduction.Actually learning how to play an &quot;RPG&quot; was a different story.&nbsp; The examples of play and combat in the BD&amp;D rulebook (Pink Box, and later 1E DMG) were how I learned how to play.&nbsp; I got loaned the rulebook by a friend of a friend with a brief description of the game but not much else, but because I was big on the Hobbit and LotR and it had something similar I was interested.&nbsp; The Basic rulebook was OK, but still pretty confusing, though I eventually puzzled it out (it probably helped that I was also learning wargames at about the same time, most of which had more rules but clearer explanations of how to play).&nbsp; I then taught a bunch of friends to play, and in middle school located some other kids who had learned, and eventually had a big group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 5766324, member: 5868"] Like most kids who got told to play outside, I played a lot of "make believe" with friends running around (soldiers, Star Wars, cops & robbers, etc). Even playing with Legos or Star Wars figures had an aspect of roleplaying, so I was primed for RP introduction. Actually learning how to play an "RPG" was a different story. The examples of play and combat in the BD&D rulebook (Pink Box, and later 1E DMG) were how I learned how to play. I got loaned the rulebook by a friend of a friend with a brief description of the game but not much else, but because I was big on the Hobbit and LotR and it had something similar I was interested. The Basic rulebook was OK, but still pretty confusing, though I eventually puzzled it out (it probably helped that I was also learning wargames at about the same time, most of which had more rules but clearer explanations of how to play). I then taught a bunch of friends to play, and in middle school located some other kids who had learned, and eventually had a big group. [/QUOTE]

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