How did you get into D&D?

[LostSoul]

My dad had the books. They had cool pictures on the cover and inside. When I was old enough to understand how to play the game, I forced my younger brother and sister to play with me. Then my older brother got in on the act, and we were hooked.

 

[S'mon]

I was about 10 yrs old and I got the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook, 'The Warlock of Firetop Mountain'. I played that sucker until the pages fell apart. It all went from there.

 

[Orcus]

I started playing D&D with these girls Debbie and Marcie. Debbie had a cleric named Elfstar. Marcie had a thief named Blackleaf. Our DM was this woman named Ms. Frost. It got kinda wierd so I left and started my own group and took over as DM. I heard Marcie later freaked out when Blackleaf got killed failing to notice a trap. Whatever. Anyway, I tried to get Debbie to join my new group, but she started seeing some fundamentalist dude named Mike and she quit gaming.

Clark

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Debbie, Marcie, and Ms. Frost

That is a tragic tale.

In the first group I played in, noone was allowed to refer to themselves as their character. So you couldn't say, "I hack at the orc with my broadsword," it would always be, "Clomind kneels behind a boulder and fires at the unsuspecting giant."

I loved it because it encouraged my descriptive ability.

Later, I found out we did it because it was supposed to be disassociative. The DM had learned to play from someone who's friend had freaked out.

 

[Mr. Draco]

Well, my story is a little shorter than everybody else's. I started a few years ago... My friends and I had played the Baldur's Gate computer game, and had heard very little about DnD. We knew it existed, but we didn't really know what it was. So, one day, my best friend came back from the book story with this stack of little booklets. They were the original 2e -> 3e conversion booklets that came out before the 3e player's handbook. We realized it was something like Baldur's Gate, and were instantly hooked by the wierd terminology it used (which we couldn't understand). So, naturally, when the 3e player's handbook came out, we had to get it. Then, we ran into this guy at our highschool (who is now a very good friend) who had heard we were interested in playing DnD (he had played since 2nd edition) and he wanted to run a game for us (coincedentally, his initials are DM). Since then... well... I've been hooked

 

[Eternalknight]

I started at age 11. I got into it through the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. I would read them religiously, and when one of my cousins saw me with them told me about three other games that I might like: Hero Quest, Warhammer and, of course, D&D. I played HeroQuest and Warhammer first, but once I got into D&D it stuck.

 

[The Forsaken One]

Well I always loved writing (allthough I suck at it just read the IR theads heh). And I LOVE myth and this fantasy stuff so I kinda started interestig myself in it, writing up stuff and on and eventualy I found out that people were D&Ding at school so DM's are me hehe.

Almost enjoy reading through alot of these books like the FR setting (Awsome) and most of all the Manual of the Planes as well as playing. Just facinating and lots of it reads like a history book.

(That's why I'm dying for some official stuff about the blood war and interplanar crap. BLood war blood war blood war!!)

 

[Ezrael]

Tension breaker, had to be done

My very first experience with D&D was being told I couldn't play, actually. It pissed me off enough that I went out and found the purple set and recruited some friends and started playing. From there, it just kind of snowballed. We used to rotate the DM position so nobody had to do all the work all of the time, we used a lot of modules and made up a lot of our own...but mainly, for me, it was a desire to have a game better than the one I was told I couldn't play in.

 

[Pseudonym]

I first started playing D&D when I was 8, back in 81'. My father ran a game for some of the guys in his platoon, and I was an ever present hanger on. The guys would let me sit and watch, and occasionally roll dice for them, and eventually I created my first character, a simple human fighter.

Ah, memories.

 

[Joker]

As most of you, I was a member of the Church of Satan. They told me about Dnd. Said they do it all the time. Kinda weird, they would always play Lawful Good types. So I told Lucifer about these heretics and he smothed them. Well, actually, he got rid of their dental plan, but that's besides the point.

Now I'm the Grand Poobah of the Church .

Woohoo.