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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KirayaTiDrekan" data-source="post: 6251723" data-attributes="member: 6755061">“It is the year 2005…”Except it was actually 1986 and I was sitting in a movie theater, hearing those words from Transformers: The Movie.  I was staying with my mother for the summer and she had the Dragonlance Chronicles , which I devoured hungrily.A few years later, my older step-brother from my father’s new relationship showed me the Red Box.  I remembered seeing an ad for this game in the Dragonlance books and remembered watching the D&D cartoon sometimes while waiting for Transformers (I’m still a Trans-fanatic after all this time).My first character was “The” fighter in the Red Box, in a homebrew campaign that included the Isle of Dread, run by my step-brother.  I quickly decided to DM and put together a group of middle school friends.  We quickly moved on to 2nd Edition when that came out (I skipped 1st Edition entirely, except for the Monster Manual and Monster Manual II which were just awesome to read through, even though I didn’t understand the stats).When I joined the Air Force in ’94, my time with D&D diminished as World of Darkness and Palladium took over my gaming time and the group I ended up with.  I managed to squeeze in a few more 2nd Edition campaigns, though, before D&D and my life took a sudden left turn.  I’ll spare you the personal details, but suffice to say that 3rd Edition was a big change to the game as big changes were happening in my life and I found a great deal of comfort and refuge in D&D at that time.  I joined the Navy and finally managed to run a campaign from 1st to beyond 20th, using the loose adventure path-ish series of The Sunless Citadel through Bastion of Broken Souls.  3.5 came out just as I was leaving the Navy.I didn’t discover EN World until 2004 and mostly lurked until 2007 when I started doing play-by-post.  4th Edition came along as my involvement in the online community (via Gleemax and EN World) was at its height.  I ended up taking a break from 4E and being online for a bit and took up with Pathfinder and tried a few other games.  D&D Next has brought me back into the fold and I am quite eager to see what the final version looks like.D&D has been a refuge and safe haven for much of my life.  Many of us are familiar with the trope of the outcast kid, always bullied, never fitting in – well, that was me and D&D kept me mostly sane.</blockquote>

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