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<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 5767147" data-attributes="member: 9327">I was 8, and my friend Charles' older brother played D&amp;D with his friends on the picnic table near the playground. Me and Charles would listen in while his brother told these elaborate stories. Every once in a while he'd say these magical words:&quot;What do you do?&quot;And they would tell him. It was like magic to me. I remember me and Charles used to go hide, and make up stories for each other, and then we'd use the magical incantation (&quot;What do you do?&quot;) to prompt each other to tell the protagonist's side of the story. We called it &quot;Science Lab&quot;, and it was always centered around that week's MacGuyver episode.One time Charles' older brother over heard us, and he and his friends mocked us.&nbsp; &quot;Wow, they think they're playing D&amp;D. What a couple losers.&quot; I felt pretty humiliated, and had a deep and avowed hatred of &quot;gaming nerds&quot; until college. Then I made friends with one, and he invited me to my first game of D&amp;D. I swear, the first time the DM asked me what my character did, it was like all the old magic came back.It was amazing. I'll be playing D&amp;D (in one way or another) until I die. Pinky swear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 5767147, member: 9327"] I was 8, and my friend Charles' older brother played D&D with his friends on the picnic table near the playground. Me and Charles would listen in while his brother told these elaborate stories. Every once in a while he'd say these magical words: "What do [i]you[/i] do?" And they would tell him. It was like magic to me. I remember me and Charles used to go hide, and make up stories for each other, and then we'd use the magical incantation ("What do [i]you[/i] do?") to prompt each other to tell [i]the protagonist's[/i] side of the story. We called it "Science Lab", and it was always centered around that week's MacGuyver episode. One time Charles' older brother over heard us, and he and his friends mocked us. "Wow, they think they're playing D&D. What a couple losers." I felt pretty humiliated, and had a deep and avowed hatred of "gaming nerds" until college. Then I made friends with one, and he invited me to my first game of D&D. I swear, the first time the DM asked me what my character did, it was like all the old magic came back. It was amazing. I'll be playing D&D (in one way or another) until I die. Pinky swear. [/QUOTE]

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