How did you get your start

[Oryan77]

After making friends with my now best friend, he asked if I wanted to play D&D and he would DM me. I had no idea what D&D was but I knew it had to do with fantasy stuff, so I was in. I'll never forget my first minute of playing after creating my character:

Him: So you're standing in a bar having a few drinks at the counter, what do you want to do?

Me: Huh? What do you mean I'm standing at a bar? (I didn't see pictures or anything on our gaming table)

Him: Your character is standing at the bar drinking. What do you do?

Me: I don't get it. Are you asking what my character wants to do?

Him: Yes.

Me: Uh...ok....he starts jumping up and down.

Him: Heh, uhm ok...you start jumping up & down in the bar and everyone starts looking at you.

Me: Ohhhhhhh I get it...I imagine what's going on and you tell me what happens!

An hour after realizing how D&D works, my character has killed a drunk thug, threw him out my room window, & figured out a way to leave the inn without anyone seeing me leave. After that I was hooked

 

[Hypersmurf]

When I was really young, probably around 7 or 8... one of my uncles taught me and my cousins to play Magic: the Gathering (first in a line of CCG's).

That makes me feel old. Even though I'm not.

-Hyp.

 

[Korgoth]

That makes me feel old. Even though I'm not.

-Hyp.

It makes me realize that for the younger generation, it is possible that they played MtG before ever playing D&D. That's a sobering thought.

 

[Fifth Element]

It makes me realize that for the younger generation, it is possible that they played MtG before ever playing D&D. That's a sobering thought.

QFT. I'm barely 30 but I still remember when MtG appeared and almost immediately we lost two of our regular players to a freakin' card game!

Hm. Still a bit bitter, apparently.

 

[Nightfall]

*didn't need MtG to enjoy D&D*

It killed my income though. MtG that is.

Shemmy,

You sure there weren't any fiends involved?

 

[Mycanid]

That makes me feel old. Even though I'm not.

-Hyp.

Boy do I ever know what you mean about this one.... :\

 

[Nightfall]

Bah I'm older than either of you two. If anyone has the right to feel old, it's me!

 

[I'm A Banana]

Blackleaf made me do it.

Nah, it really happened because I was wailing on this nerdy outcast kid who dropped his bag of dice while I laughed at him with several of my posse, so I took them and his lame book. I went on to play D&D, he went on, I think, to heroin.

Spoiler

That's entirely a lie. I started when the football team's star running back invited me when he saw me reading the books in class

 

[Nightfall]

Kami,

You sure it wasn't Piratecat?