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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archangel" data-source="post: 250197" data-attributes="member: 4537">Oh, the memories...My first exposure to D&D and gaming was when a friend of mine gave me some monster cards (a displacer beast, a blink dog, and a salamander - these were the big cards, like 5.5 by 4.25, not the trading card sized ones) about 18 years ago.  He also let me borrow the "red books".  Ooh, it was all so very fascinating for my 12 year old imagination.  I remember how the salamander looked like a demonic pirate (with the earrings and all).  Sadly, there were no games to join and I could not get anyone to play (I played some two player games for a while).  My friend eventually moved away, taking his books with him.I did not get to play in a real group until I was 18, although like a previous poster, I had some made up rules using 2d6 from boards games (based off of computer games and my memories of D&D).During my first year playing, I had lost my license and my dad (who also introduced me to the world of fantasy novels) offered to join the group (I was in my first year of technical college and the DM and some of the players were my dad's age anyway).  It was cool, because it allowed us to bond before he passed away a year later (from a heart attack).Anyway, that was fun.</blockquote>