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<blockquote data-quote="edemaitre" data-source="post: 6251694" data-attributes="member: 3372">What D&amp;D means to meI started role-playing back in high school in the early 1980s with the boxed sets and &quot;BECMI&quot; edition of Dungeons &amp; Dragons. I've been running my homebrew &quot;Vanished Lands&quot; campaign setting for about 30 years now, with hundreds of Player Characters and dozens of role-players over the years.Through gaming, I met lifelong friends in college in Upstate New York. In freshman year, I even got my entire floor in the dorm to try gaming. Through those AD&amp;D circles, I met the woman who became my wife.When I had the good fortune to teach for a year in New York City, most of my students participated in my AD&amp;D2 games, including some who later got married themselves. D&amp;D has given my friends a common interest and language.In the 1990s near Washington, D.C., and in the 2000s around Boston, D&amp;D3.x and other tabletop RPGs helped me build new circles of friends. I've never had difficulty recruiting players, with groups as large as more than a dozen people at a time.EnWorld has helped me stay in touch with the larger community and follow trends in our hobby. I'm currently running two adventuring parties using the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game, a D20 retro-clone, but I hope that D&amp;D &quot;Next&quot; is successful. Long live RPGs!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="edemaitre, post: 6251694, member: 3372"] [b]What D&D means to me[/b] I started role-playing back in high school in the early 1980s with the boxed sets and "BECMI" edition of [I]Dungeons & Dragons[/I]. I've been running my homebrew "Vanished Lands" campaign setting for about 30 years now, with hundreds of Player Characters and dozens of role-players over the years. Through gaming, I met lifelong friends in college in Upstate New York. In freshman year, I even got my entire floor in the dorm to try gaming. Through those AD&D circles, I met the woman who became my wife. When I had the good fortune to teach for a year in New York City, most of my students participated in my AD&D2 games, including some who later got married themselves. D&D has given my friends a common interest and language. In the 1990s near Washington, D.C., and in the 2000s around Boston, D&D3.x and other tabletop RPGs helped me build new circles of friends. I've never had difficulty recruiting players, with groups as large as more than a dozen people at a time. EnWorld has helped me stay in touch with the larger community and follow trends in our hobby. I'm currently running two adventuring parties using the [I]Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game[/I], a D20 retro-clone, but I hope that D&D "Next" is successful. Long live RPGs! [/QUOTE]

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