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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 6251815" data-attributes="member: 15651"><p>For me it was 1979 and four guys had set up a table in the local hobby store. Tom the DM was running a game of D&D. One of the players, who had a fighter with 2HP named Sir-Run-a-lot explained to myself and a friend that what really mattered for the game was having cool looking dice, a nice clipboard and a fancy mechanical pencil. When he was killed after getting burning oil splashed on him, he showed us how to roll up a new character - a fighter with 1HP named Sir-Die-a-lot. </p><p></p><p>My friend and I got our own copies of the Basic Set, learned to play and joined Tom and others at the hobby store for several years. I played with different friends for many years until shortly after 3.5 came out. Since then, it has been only occasional games of D&D as we all had kids and our time became more and more difficult to coordinate for a regular game. My son has played 4e, but I personally cannot stand that edition and only play it once in a while with him. I am holding out some hope that D&D Next will be a game we can both enjoy and I can start a new group with my friends and their kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 6251815, member: 15651"] For me it was 1979 and four guys had set up a table in the local hobby store. Tom the DM was running a game of D&D. One of the players, who had a fighter with 2HP named Sir-Run-a-lot explained to myself and a friend that what really mattered for the game was having cool looking dice, a nice clipboard and a fancy mechanical pencil. When he was killed after getting burning oil splashed on him, he showed us how to roll up a new character - a fighter with 1HP named Sir-Die-a-lot. My friend and I got our own copies of the Basic Set, learned to play and joined Tom and others at the hobby store for several years. I played with different friends for many years until shortly after 3.5 came out. Since then, it has been only occasional games of D&D as we all had kids and our time became more and more difficult to coordinate for a regular game. My son has played 4e, but I personally cannot stand that edition and only play it once in a while with him. I am holding out some hope that D&D Next will be a game we can both enjoy and I can start a new group with my friends and their kids. [/QUOTE]
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