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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grafikchaos" data-source="post: 6251768" data-attributes="member: 6762942">What D&D means to me.I think it was 1981.  I was at a friend's house, and he had a neighbor friend that was a few years older than us.  I was 11 at the time, and I think his friend was 14 or 15.  My friend said something about a game that his friend plays, where you fight dragons and goblins and stuff.  We went to his friend's house and he handed us each a character sheet, and then we did a combat with a dragon, rolling dice, and him describing the action.  It was the coolest thing ever.  My friend and I ended up getting the basic red box set, and we would play almost every weekend.  I can't even remember my first characters.I showed the game to some friends in school, and we played obsessively.  I remember someone mentioning the advanced version, and my parents took me and one of my gaming friends up to a book store that carried the books.  We both bought the players handbook that day, and it opened up a whole new world of D&D for us.  It was Advanced, and we loved it!I played all through middle and high school, and found a group in college.  Shortly after I left college, I met some of my very best friends through gaming circles.  I continued to play through my 20's.  When 3rd edition rolled around, I played it some with those friends.  I fell out of the hobby for some 11 or 12 years, and got back into gaming through board games around 2008.  I stumbled across the playtest for Next, and got to thinking about starting another group up, which I have, and I'm really glad to be back.  I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of Next in a complete package.I've met some of my best friends through D&D, and even though I don't live around them any more, we still stay in touch through facebook and the like.  They all became my brothers because of a shared love of this hobby, and that is what D&D means to me.</blockquote>

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