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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6251961" data-attributes="member: 158">1981, at a Circus World toy chain store. Saw the Erol Otus Cover,  Moldvay Basic box set for the first time. Looked like a fun board game with sorceresses and manly fighters on the cover fighting dragons - I believe it was the art that hooked me, it was funky-looking, unlike anything I had ever seen before. I bought that, and (thanks to the TERRIBLE TSR marketing) the AD&D White Plume Mountain module -- and tried to figure out how the dice worked, and how to fit that higher level adventure together with that low level basic box. For the first three years, I never did figure out how the dice worked for the game -- I just made up whether the attacks hit or missed, whether the spells worked or not, etc.I had one good friend in those days that I shared D&D with -- we probably played non-stop for three years -- until he turned 15, married his girlfriend and ran away from home. (He had kind of a rough home life, in hindsight I think that's why we played so much.) But though I had lost my one player and good friend, I was hooked -- I came up with stories by myself, wrote fiction, wrote modules (TERRRRIBLE modules), read DragonLance -- all until I came into knowing some friends in High School who reintroduced me to the wide world of D&D players again, and told me I wasn't alone in this crazy hobby, and that I wasn't really a closet Satanist, that there were plenty of people, girls and boys alike, to share this geeky hobby with. How in the Hell did we get by without an internet back then? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you, Gary and Dave, for all your work in giving us the keys to Fun.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you, Emory, for being the one crazy fool who played D&D with me back then.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you, Mom, for reading the game, seeing it wasn't anything harmful, and going against the rest of the religious family members who didn't like it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you, Dad, for bankrolling one Hell of an expensive hobby.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you Ed Greenwood, Skip Williams, Jeff Grubb, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Keith Baker, Erik Mona, Lisa Stevens, and about 100 other people who took a game into a Lifestyle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you, Eric, for birthing the community that gave me some of the dearest friendships I still have.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thank you, Russ, for midwifing this community of misfits into a cultural Institution.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And God bless RPGs and may the tabletop never completely disappear. </li> </ul></blockquote>

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