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<blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3414650" data-attributes="member: 48586">I would have to say that the initial first steps towards playing D&amp;D and other RPG games started in the 4th grade when I read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Time-Madeleine-LEngle/dp/B000BK66XE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-3428350-3556020?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1174666178&amp;sr=1-3" target="_blank">A Wrinkle In Time</a> by Madelein L'Engle. Then it was the original Choose Your Own Adventure books until in 6th grade (about 1981) I noticed these kids that would go behind the portables at lunch and play some game that involved a cardboard screen with cool pictures on it and cool dice. That summer break between 6th and 7th grade I found out from a neighbor kid up the street that it was Dungeons &amp; Dragons and he ran the first game I ever played in. I think he ran Castle Amber. I remember getting attacked by the invisible stalker in the dungeon and experience for the first time the fear of having my character die.The kid was a flake, so the adventure didn't last more than a couple of hours. I went and found the basic boxed set after that and got some friends and my brother to play the module that came with it - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keep_on_the_Borderlands" target="_blank">Keep on the Borderlands</a>. I soon graduated up to the Expert Set and tried a short stint at running module <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dread" target="_blank">X1: Isle of Dread</a>. Then it was on to 1E AD&amp;D, a hiatus of a few years, back to AD&amp;D, a short time playing 2nd Edition, and then 3rd edition to present.And now I'm actually writing the adventures that I hope bring the same wonder to younger gamers that the old ones brought to me.Good times!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="+5 Keyboard!, post: 3414650, member: 48586"] I would have to say that the initial first steps towards playing D&D and other RPG games started in the 4th grade when I read [url=http://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Time-Madeleine-LEngle/dp/B000BK66XE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-3428350-3556020?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174666178&sr=1-3]A Wrinkle In Time[/url] by Madelein L'Engle. Then it was the original [i]Choose Your Own Adventure[/i] books until in 6th grade (about 1981) I noticed these kids that would go behind the portables at lunch and play some game that involved a cardboard screen with cool pictures on it and cool dice. That summer break between 6th and 7th grade I found out from a neighbor kid up the street that it was [i]Dungeons & Dragons[/i] and he ran the first game I ever played in. I think he ran [i]Castle Amber[/i]. I remember getting attacked by the invisible stalker in the dungeon and experience for the first time the fear of having my character die. The kid was a flake, so the adventure didn't last more than a couple of hours. I went and found the basic boxed set after that and got some friends and my brother to play the module that came with it - [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keep_on_the_Borderlands][b]Keep on the Borderlands[/b][/url]. I soon graduated up to the Expert Set and tried a short stint at running module [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dread][b]X1: Isle of Dread[/b][/url]. Then it was on to 1E AD&D, a hiatus of a few years, back to AD&D, a short time playing 2nd Edition, and then 3rd edition to present. And now I'm actually writing the adventures that I hope bring the same wonder to younger gamers that the old ones brought to me. Good times! [/QUOTE]

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