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<blockquote data-quote="tylerthehobo" data-source="post: 2994041" data-attributes="member: 24621">Dad, a grognard into lead miniatures and wargames, bought my &quot;big&quot; brother the blue Basic set (prior to the red box, but after the brown box) in the 70s.&nbsp; He took to it like a duck to water, and soon invested in the AD&amp;D books.&nbsp; I guess I always grew up around the game - he was running a campaign with his elementary school buddies in greyhawk by the time I was 2.&nbsp; They sent notes to one another at school in-character, to keep one another apprised of their characters' actions between games.&nbsp; I thought it was simultaneously dorky and cool.&nbsp; By age 4, I was rolling up characters w/ my bro, and not really understanding much of the game, but enjoying basically an interactive &quot;storytime&quot;.&nbsp; (I started reading around 5, and I'll still attribute much of that impetus to RPGs and the TI computer that my dad bought us as kids.)&nbsp; By 1983 I got my first copy of the red box.&nbsp; By 1984 I got a copy of the marvel supers RPG - which had cardboard figures - what an idea - a grid and figures!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; From there it was star frontiers, Dr. Who (ouch - what a rules system), Indiana Jones, Traveler, DC Heroes, and James Bond (yikes - another a-whuh? kind of rules system).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tylerthehobo, post: 2994041, member: 24621"] Dad, a grognard into lead miniatures and wargames, bought my "big" brother the blue Basic set (prior to the red box, but after the brown box) in the 70s. He took to it like a duck to water, and soon invested in the AD&D books. I guess I always grew up around the game - he was running a campaign with his elementary school buddies in greyhawk by the time I was 2. They sent notes to one another at school in-character, to keep one another apprised of their characters' actions between games. I thought it was simultaneously dorky and cool. By age 4, I was rolling up characters w/ my bro, and not really understanding much of the game, but enjoying basically an interactive "storytime". (I started reading around 5, and I'll still attribute much of that impetus to RPGs and the TI computer that my dad bought us as kids.) By 1983 I got my first copy of the red box. By 1984 I got a copy of the marvel supers RPG - which had cardboard figures - what an idea - a grid and figures! ;) From there it was star frontiers, Dr. Who (ouch - what a rules system), Indiana Jones, Traveler, DC Heroes, and James Bond (yikes - another [I]a-whuh?[/I] kind of rules system). [/QUOTE]

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