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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 5330613" data-attributes="member: 55178">I was introduced to the game in 1980, but fears of Satanism swept through the PTA shortly there, and most of my collection of books and miniatures were relegated to the trash.  The books that survived, and the few that I was able to pick up surreptitiously over the years were hidden underneath the Playboys I had stashed in the back of my closet.It was strange though, the only problems our parents seemed to have were with the books, not with any of the games we were playing even after they threw all of our stuff away.  In high school, the only D&D I really saw actually in the school were a handful of band geeks who would make characters and have fights with each other during lunch with the old d20 table of unarmed fighting maneuvers.Most of the rpg related activities I partook in when I was in high school were just reading through books and making characters with friends.  Lots of people seemed interested in the idea, or talking about old games they had played in, but no one seemed interested in picking up the gauntlet and running a game.My senior year in high school, I ended up hooking into a group of gamers outside of my school and was introduced to Paranoia, Traveller, Mechwarrior, and the rainbow of Palladium titles.When I hit college in 92, there was a different game, if not two, scheduled for every night of the week.I don't remember it ever being nearly as main stream as it is now.  It had it's flashes, mostly through collegiate circuits, but it was nowhere near as popular or easy to find as it is today.We didn't have megachain bookstores or Walmarts.  You'd find the game in weird places every once in a while, I stumbled into a rack of adventures (which were absolutely impossible to find in any of the stores that had D&D stuff that I knew of) in a corner store in <a href="http://peddlersvillage.com/overview/overview.htm" target="_blank">Peddler's Village</a>, but in general you'd find the game in hobby stores, or comic book shops, or Toys R Us.  I know there were a handful of them out there, only because I saw their ads in Dragon, but I didn't see an actual, nothing-but-games, game store till Magic got big and it made a bunch of comic and hobby shops rethink their product line.</blockquote>

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