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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tek2way" data-source="post: 2512163" data-attributes="member: 6376">Oh yeah!! That's me alright!I forget exactly how, but I began to develop a ravenous appetite for any mythology I could lay my hands on. (I'd seen the D&D cartoon, true, and loved it, but moved on without discovering D&D.) Anyway, I'd read anything: Greek/Roman, Norse, Arabic. I could not get enough mythology.Perhaps that was why my aunt took me to a book store, and let me pick up a couple of novels to read. I wasn't really sure about any of the lines, and she didn't push me to LotR (thank goodness -- I find them dry, but generally well-written), so I decided to pick up Darkness & Light by Thompson and Cook (Dragonlance Preludes, Volume 1), and Waterdeep, by "Richard Awlinson" (that's the name that is on my copy of the Avatar Trilogy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).On the way home, we discovered that I had picked up book three of the Avatar Trilogy, so she took that back to swap for Shadowdale. The time I had with the Dragonlance book was all it took, though. Forgotten Realms has since always played second fiddle to Dragonlance for me.Then, in 1991, I was visiting my mother in California. I'd been devouring fantasy fiction as fast as I could get it (no, no classics yet as some put it, but I still love the Elven Nations Trilogy), and somehow or another, I realized that it was tied to a game. I was at a mall out there, and saw Dragonlance Adventures for sale. I picked it up, and realized I needed something else to use it. I grabbed the D&D Box Set they released in '90 (the BIG black box, with the Easley-drawn red dragon on the cover), and the Dragonlance Taladas box set. I began to have an idea of how to play, but it wasn't until I got home, showed off my purchases, that one of my friends revealed that he'd played AD&D all through the 80's. Needless to say, it was from there that I was hooked on RPGs. To this day, I still have that DLA, though it is horribly worn. Unlike the quoted poster above, we used that book for material, even though we technically were playing 2nd Edition.---In a strange reversal, I believe that I can credit D&D for introducing me to authors like Lovecraft, Howard, Leiber, and Burroughs. (I *LOVE* Howard's Conan stories. In fact, I sneer at any Conan story written by another author, and John Carter is my hero. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

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