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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5046175" data-attributes="member: 15651">Well, if you don't count playing Cops and Robbers or sitting under a picnic table pretending it is the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon while friends run by making TIE fighter noises, then it was when I was 10.A friend and I biked to the local hobby store to buy new model airplane kits to build.  In the store were four big kids (8th graders) sitting around a card table with paper pencils and funky dice.  We watched them play a game for an hour or so where we learned; that orcs burned in pools of oil could be taken as rations that tasted like oily chicken, that when you had a pathetic character, it helped to have cool accessories to play with, and the only thing more sad than a 2 HP fighter named "Sir Runalot" was his younger brother sent to avenge his death - a 1 HP fighter named "Sir Diealot."  I was hooked and when my friend got the Basic Set for his birthday followed by my own a month after that, there was no turning back from my path to geekdom.</blockquote>