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<blockquote data-quote="Galethorn" data-source="post: 3414768" data-attributes="member: 7888">Around the end of 3rd grade, my dad read The Hobbit to me. Not long after, he read Lord of the Rings. This would have been in '95.By 7th grade, I'd reread them several times. I'd played a lot of computer games by that point, but nothing with swords and sorcery. For my 12th birthday, I got Everquest, and enjoyed it so much I nearly failed 7th grade. After about nine months, I decided to quit after my best friend, Tim, was barred from playing for doing even worse than I had in school that year. We discovered Baldur's Gate soon after, and we were hooked. It was only a matter of time before I ordered the quasi-2e boxed set (the one with a picture of a dragon on the cover, which included an adventure involving a dragon stealing the holy symbol from the roof of a church), and roped my parents into playing with Tim and I.That was in '99.We had fun, but didn't really do much after slogging through the pre-packaged adventure. Days turned to months, months turned to years, and I didn't play D&amp;D again until I managed to convince my friends to let me DM a 3.0 game in '02. It was awful, but we still had fun. I soon gave up DMing when I found a friend-of-a-friend a few grades ahead of us that was willing to DM a Forgotten Realms game. It was awesome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Galethorn, post: 3414768, member: 7888"] Around the end of 3rd grade, my dad read The Hobbit to me. Not long after, he read Lord of the Rings. This would have been in '95. By 7th grade, I'd reread them several times. I'd played a lot of computer games by that point, but nothing with swords and sorcery. For my 12th birthday, I got Everquest, and enjoyed it so much I nearly failed 7th grade. After about nine months, I decided to quit after my best friend, Tim, was barred from playing for doing even worse than I had in school that year. We discovered Baldur's Gate soon after, and we were hooked. It was only a matter of time before I ordered the quasi-2e boxed set (the one with a picture of a dragon on the cover, which included an adventure involving a dragon stealing the holy symbol from the roof of a church), and roped my parents into playing with Tim and I. That was in '99. We had fun, but didn't really do much after slogging through the pre-packaged adventure. Days turned to months, months turned to years, and I didn't play D&D again until I managed to convince my friends to let me DM a 3.0 game in '02. It was awful, but we still had fun. I soon gave up DMing when I found a friend-of-a-friend a few grades ahead of us that was willing to DM a Forgotten Realms game. It was awesome. [/QUOTE]

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