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<blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 408162" data-attributes="member: 2201">I was in the Navy, 23 years old, on a decomissioning crew.&nbsp; This was intensely boring as we had to sit and watch workers cut out parts of the ship and make certain no fires started.&nbsp; At night we stood watch on an empty ship to make certain it didn't break free and start to float away.&nbsp; I was looking through a toy store for a wargame of some sort and found a small white box that had three tan booklets in it.&nbsp; I had a good time reading it, working on a dungeon etc but didn't actually get to play until about nine months later, after I got out of the service.I found a student published magazine in a used bookstore that focused on sci-fi.&nbsp; That issue had an article on D&amp;D and the author included his phone number if anyone was interested in trying the game.&nbsp; I was the only call he got.&nbsp; I ended up&nbsp; meeting some college students who were willing to teach a serious newbie about the game.&nbsp; I was told I had to roll up a dwarf since they&nbsp; !!&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; This was bemusing and amusing to me but I ended up with a great character and a lot of years with fun people gaming as much as possible.&nbsp; I also met my wife at a game and now my daughter has joined our gaming group which includes the son of another player.&nbsp; The next generation of gaming is doing well in our area!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Templetroll, post: 408162, member: 2201"] I was in the Navy, 23 years old, on a decomissioning crew. This was intensely boring as we had to sit and watch workers cut out parts of the ship and make certain no fires started. At night we stood watch on an empty ship to make certain it didn't break free and start to float away. I was looking through a toy store for a wargame of some sort and found a small white box that had three tan booklets in it. I had a good time reading it, working on a dungeon etc but didn't actually get to play until about nine months later, after I got out of the service. I found a student published magazine in a used bookstore that focused on sci-fi. That issue had an article on D&D and the author included his phone number if anyone was interested in trying the game. I was the only call he got. I ended up meeting some college students who were willing to teach a serious newbie about the game. I was told I [B]had[/B] to roll up a dwarf since they !! :) This was bemusing and amusing to me but I ended up with a great character and a lot of years with fun people gaming as much as possible. I also met my wife at a game and now my daughter has joined our gaming group which includes the son of another player. The next generation of gaming is doing well in our area! [/QUOTE]

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