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Message: <blockquote data-quote="athos" data-source="post: 5280969" data-attributes="member: 32605">I started in 1977, when I was in 5th grade.  I was learning algebra, reading the lord of the rings trilogy for the first time, and falling madly in love with Kim M. and her big blue eyes. And to this really good year, I got to add Advanced Dungeons and Dragons !!! It was a very good year. My biggest mistake as a new player was that I was so excited by the game that I tried to force it on ALL of my friends.  Most only played because I begged them to, not because they really wanted to.  I should have begged my folks to take me to a hobby shop and let me play with other enthusiasts, but I didn't realize that anyone else was as excited by this new world as I was. I had a paper route, so I bought EVERYTHING, and to this, I wrote a hundred adventures of my own, mostly modeled on the modules of Mr. Gygax and his world of greyhawk, which I used for everything, and still enjoy to this day.  I created my own races, one half spider race I still actually use. I think I played nonstop for 7 years, until I joined the Army, and then I was too "grown-up" to play.  Later, when I relaxed a bit, I started playing again, along with Rifts and Shadowrun, I gamed a lot in the early 90's.  Again, I left off for a while, until 3.5 came out when I started living greyhawk with my daughter.  We went to all the conventions, had a great time and got to spend a lot of father / daughter time together. Overall D&D has brought me some of my best memories and fun.   So, I guess I would tell my younger self, don't be so serious, relax and savor it, it is a game and is meant to be fun, not a real life, life and death experience.  Your character isn't YOU.  And, neither you nor your character needs to be perfect, just roll with the flow and you will enjoy it more.</blockquote>

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