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Message: <blockquote data-quote="qbalrog" data-source="post: 6251701" data-attributes="member: 6763101">Thank you for the call out on the anniversary! As with you I started about age 12 but I'm older so it has been closer to 37 years that I've been playing.My first exposure to it was at West Point, where my father taught math. A friend invited me to try it out. We played in a musty basement of one of the old officer's quarters houses with my friend and 4-5 cadets. I was rather nervous in their presence and the game was a mystery, since I did not know any of the rules. I still remember the character: a dwarf fighter with 2 hit points and can still remember the cadet-referee describing us walking down a wooden passage covered with hay. One of us fell through a hole. There was much more to it b ut that's all I remember after all the years.Regardless, I was hooked at the time. I already played a lot of wargames (this was the golden age of hex war games) so I was no stranger to games but this game was very different, with its figures, open ended play, game master, even little oddities like using the Outdoor Survival map (in the very early days).For the next 30 days I played continuously, daily when younger, moving to weekends in college and post college gradually becoming less frequent. These days, sadly, we only play every few months but I'm starting to look for a more frequent gaming group.I've played all the editions, from the original 3 book game, then with the original supplements, through 4E although I have since moved to Pathfinder but am not sure I will try D&D next, at least not without finding a group that is playing it. These days, I do a lot more table top gaming than RPGs, although that's more a matter of path of least resistance.Cheers to D&D!</blockquote>

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