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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 5330315" data-attributes="member: 203"><p>I remember playing every lunch period (which, thanks to how we all arranged our schedules was 2 hours long!) from grades 9 to 11 (so I was 14 when it started about 1984). I had been playing with a couple of friends for a few years before that (and my cousin who lived out of town but visited often) but it really took off during those 3 years. We played through the first 6 modules of Dragonlance, a homemade campaign that got us from 1st to 10th and so many one-shot games i couldn't count them. mostly it was (A)D&D but i also remember running Traveler and playing in a Top Secret and Star Frontiers game. We never really hid the fact we played and would occasionally get one of the "cool" kids hanging around us as we played and few even joined in. D&D products could be found most anywhere I remember finding the basic boxed set (Holmes) at KMart! Then my family moved and I changed schools - I never found a gaming group in my new school and it wasn't until i entered university 2 years later that I started playing D&D again.</p><p></p><p>Haven't really stopped since then!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 5330315, member: 203"] I remember playing every lunch period (which, thanks to how we all arranged our schedules was 2 hours long!) from grades 9 to 11 (so I was 14 when it started about 1984). I had been playing with a couple of friends for a few years before that (and my cousin who lived out of town but visited often) but it really took off during those 3 years. We played through the first 6 modules of Dragonlance, a homemade campaign that got us from 1st to 10th and so many one-shot games i couldn't count them. mostly it was (A)D&D but i also remember running Traveler and playing in a Top Secret and Star Frontiers game. We never really hid the fact we played and would occasionally get one of the "cool" kids hanging around us as we played and few even joined in. D&D products could be found most anywhere I remember finding the basic boxed set (Holmes) at KMart! Then my family moved and I changed schools - I never found a gaming group in my new school and it wasn't until i entered university 2 years later that I started playing D&D again. Haven't really stopped since then! [/QUOTE]
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