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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2996679" data-attributes="member: 14159">I voted for Club, but it was a long and mixed road to becoming a gamer.Circa 1991 or so, I was in Junior High and getting kind of interested in the sci-fi and fantasy genres and saw this D&amp;D game I'd heard mentioned from place to place.Within a few months, I'd picked up the big black Basic D&amp;D box (the one with the big red dragon on the cover), the NES version of Pool of Radiance, and handful of D&amp;D books.&nbsp; I had one other friend in my class who was also interested, but we hadn't exactly figured out how it all worked (since we had a melange of Basic and Advanced D&amp;D materials from several editions and thought they all worked together somehow), why the books we could buy at the store didn't work with the box set we bought, and they both had different rules than the computer games we saw.However, before too long my dad realized what my new budding hobby was, and he strongly disapproved.&nbsp; The preacher had told him it was satanic and lead kids to commit suicide, so I wasn't allowed to have anything to do with it.&nbsp; My mom didn't care though, and I just put all my D&amp;D things away and dropped it for a few years, wanting to play but not having a chance.Then I went to college, and my first year I met somebody who played D&amp;D, and we talked about it, and he always talked about the games he was in, but he never invited me to a game, even when I said I was interested and wanted to start playing D&amp;D.&nbsp; Out of the blue, my sophomore year of college I saw a flyer for the campus gaming club and went there to a meeting, and met a big club of gamers, and it was only weeks before I was running my first campaign (d6 Star Wars), and a month or two before I was playing in my first campaign (2e AD&amp;D, heavily houseruled), that was 9 years ago and I've been gaming ever since.So, while I came close by buying things in a store, and finding friends who were interested, I'd give the actual credit for me starting as a gamer, by actually gaming, to a club.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2996679, member: 14159"] I voted for Club, but it was a long and mixed road to becoming a gamer. Circa 1991 or so, I was in Junior High and getting kind of interested in the sci-fi and fantasy genres and saw this D&D game I'd heard mentioned from place to place. Within a few months, I'd picked up the big black Basic D&D box (the one with the big red dragon on the cover), the NES version of Pool of Radiance, and handful of D&D books. I had one other friend in my class who was also interested, but we hadn't exactly figured out how it all worked (since we had a melange of Basic and Advanced D&D materials from several editions and thought they all worked together somehow), why the books we could buy at the store didn't work with the box set we bought, and they both had different rules than the computer games we saw. However, before too long my dad realized what my new budding hobby was, and he strongly disapproved. The preacher had told him it was satanic and lead kids to commit suicide, so I wasn't allowed to have anything to do with it. My mom didn't care though, and I just put all my D&D things away and dropped it for a few years, wanting to play but not having a chance. Then I went to college, and my first year I met somebody who played D&D, and we talked about it, and he always talked about the games he was in, but he never invited me to a game, even when I said I was interested and wanted to start playing D&D. Out of the blue, my sophomore year of college I saw a flyer for the campus gaming club and went there to a meeting, and met a big club of gamers, and it was only weeks before I was running my first campaign (d6 Star Wars), and a month or two before I was playing in my first campaign (2e AD&D, heavily houseruled), that was 9 years ago and I've been gaming ever since. So, while I came close by buying things in a store, and finding friends who were interested, I'd give the actual credit for me starting as a gamer, by actually gaming, to a club. [/QUOTE]

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