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<blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 2216842" data-attributes="member: 6588">My cousin introduced me to gaming and D&amp;D at Thanksgiving in 1975. I asked my mom for D&amp;D for Christmas and received the three little books. We played constantly through our childhood. My Mom was a single parent (widow) raising my brother and I - so she was grateful for the cheap entertainment. We bought all of the AD&amp;D books as they came out and included most in our games.As I've mentioned many times on ENWorld are gaming group was pretty much our neighborhood buddies. We all played football together, were in track together, and pretty much were all on the wrestling team too. We assumed RPGs were kind of just a cool boy thing to do. Then we made the fateful trip in 1984 to GenCon and discovered we were by no means normal gamers <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=";)" />In college my gaming was much reduced, but we still got together and played over the holidays. We abandoned AD&amp;D for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay though. I did not have a regular campaign going until I was describing my Warhammer campaign to a bunch of guys at my favorite bar when I was in law school. They were the bartenders, cooks, and so on and they said, &quot;Hey, let's play after close.&quot; So throughout lawschool I ran a campaign from 2 A.M. to 5:30 A.M. every Tuesday for a bunch of barkeeps and cooks - it was awesome. A lot of cigarette smoke and whiskey drinking, but those guys were amazing!When I was a young lawyer trying to get my career going I abandoned RPGs - played just a few miniatures games. I finally got smart and left the law business and D&amp;D 3E brought me back to RPGs - been pretty much on track ever since 2000. I spend almost all of my gaming dollars on miniatures and scenery (hirst arts, master maze, grendel, etc.) - so I'm a collector, but just in a different area of gaming. Pretty much if a book or game sets on my sheld unused for a couple of years it goes straight to ebay.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pogre, post: 2216842, member: 6588"] My cousin introduced me to gaming and D&D at Thanksgiving in 1975. I asked my mom for D&D for Christmas and received the three little books. We played constantly through our childhood. My Mom was a single parent (widow) raising my brother and I - so she was grateful for the cheap entertainment. We bought all of the AD&D books as they came out and included most in our games. As I've mentioned many times on ENWorld are gaming group was pretty much our neighborhood buddies. We all played football together, were in track together, and pretty much were all on the wrestling team too. We assumed RPGs were kind of just a cool boy thing to do. Then we made the fateful trip in 1984 to GenCon and discovered [b]we[/b] were by no means normal gamers ;) In college my gaming was much reduced, but we still got together and played over the holidays. We abandoned AD&D for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay though. I did not have a regular campaign going until I was describing my Warhammer campaign to a bunch of guys at my favorite bar when I was in law school. They were the bartenders, cooks, and so on and they said, "Hey, let's play after close." So throughout lawschool I ran a campaign from 2 A.M. to 5:30 A.M. every Tuesday for a bunch of barkeeps and cooks - it was awesome. A lot of cigarette smoke and whiskey drinking, but those guys were amazing! When I was a young lawyer trying to get my career going I abandoned RPGs - played just a few miniatures games. I finally got smart and left the law business and D&D 3E brought me back to RPGs - been pretty much on track ever since 2000. I spend almost all of my gaming dollars on miniatures and scenery (hirst arts, master maze, grendel, etc.) - so I'm a collector, but just in a different area of gaming. Pretty much if a book or game sets on my sheld unused for a couple of years it goes straight to ebay. [/QUOTE]

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