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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 2995463" data-attributes="member: 1231">Way Back When...My first contact with D&D was when a couple of one of my babysitters kids would have their friends over and they would play. I was about eight or nine. I don't think I really got to watch that much, and only got to try out one encounter. Same people also bought the old Lord of the Rings movies. Anyway, these encounters were mostly brief, but I was interested from the beginning. Without them, I probably still would have become a fantasy/sci-fi geek, but I don't know about D&D...Anyway, a few years later, when I was twelve and had stopped going to a babysitter, the family and I were out looking at garage sales (though that wasn't exactly an activity I really liked) and I found an AD&D 1e PHB, DMG, MM, Character Sheets, Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, Oasis of the White Palm and Conan Unchained packaged together for $30... needless to say, I bought it. Interestingly (at least to me), in my lifetime I also bought a 1, 3 and 5 wood for $30, and a heavy duty styrofoam snark for $30... seems to have been the magic number for garage sales.Anyway, I got my Mom to buy me my first set of dice from Canada Games, when they still had stores, and I eventually bought the Dragonlance Knight's Sword adventure as well. Also, I managed to find two old copies of Dragon at the Goodwill (which was pretty new back then). Unfortunately, it would be years before any of this amounted to me getting to play the game. My *guess* is that sometime between the ages of 14-16 I played my first real game of D&D online, through the TSR chat site. I met a lot of good people through there, though I don't know whats happened to most of them. So... on with the story! Sometime around May of last year, I was using the Gamers Seeking Gamers forum, and by golly, I actually found someone who was in Kingston! One thing led to another, we got together to plan characters, and we started the Age of Worms Adventure Path... There have been a number of people who have come and gone in just a few sessions, but five of us and the DM stayed with it. In a couple of months he will be leaving town, but I don't plan on letting my first gaming group die without at least trying to hold it together by becoming the DM!Anyway... yeah, most of this hasn't really been that relevant to the core question of the thread, but I certainly enjoyed the retelling of it.</blockquote>

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