Darrin Drader
Explorer
I'm curious how everyone was introduced to roleplaying, and how many years ago it was. I'll go first.
When I was about 9 I went to Toys'R'Us with my mother and saw the red box set and the books that went with it (amazing to believe Toys'R'us actually carried D&D, huh?) I brought it home, looked it over, didn't get it and put it away. A couple years passed and an old friend, from like when I was 5, and I remain close friends with him to this day, was in town for a couple weeks. He had been playing D&D with a group down in Arizona, and he taught me the basics. So there we were, a couple 11 year olds with the basic D&D rules and nothing better to do than go dungeon bashing over the course of a weekend. Needless to say, from that point forward I was hooked.
That was 19 years ago, and if memory serves, it was right about the time that AD&D 1st edition was being released. I bought all the 1st edition books, and then the 2nd edition books, and I've pretty well stayed on top of it ever since except for a brief period in the mid '90's when I was too broke to buy any books, and didn't have a lot of time for it anyway.
Well, that's my story and I'm stiking to it. How about everyone else?
When I was about 9 I went to Toys'R'Us with my mother and saw the red box set and the books that went with it (amazing to believe Toys'R'us actually carried D&D, huh?) I brought it home, looked it over, didn't get it and put it away. A couple years passed and an old friend, from like when I was 5, and I remain close friends with him to this day, was in town for a couple weeks. He had been playing D&D with a group down in Arizona, and he taught me the basics. So there we were, a couple 11 year olds with the basic D&D rules and nothing better to do than go dungeon bashing over the course of a weekend. Needless to say, from that point forward I was hooked.
That was 19 years ago, and if memory serves, it was right about the time that AD&D 1st edition was being released. I bought all the 1st edition books, and then the 2nd edition books, and I've pretty well stayed on top of it ever since except for a brief period in the mid '90's when I was too broke to buy any books, and didn't have a lot of time for it anyway.
Well, that's my story and I'm stiking to it. How about everyone else?