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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9347316" data-attributes="member: 6684958">Sadly this was a big thing.As a kid, we sure could not play D&D in public at school, the rec center or the library.  You were sure to attract a pack of hate filled bullies and hecklers and just bad people.  We had our game in a barn back behind my yard(it was not our barn and not on our land).  Just in case a random non gamer stopped over the house, as they might tell on us.  We had lots of empty giant cable spools, and we rolled a big six foot one back to the bard to be a table.  We had to run like seven outdoor extension cords back to the barn to have a light.....a beer ball light(er, for some reason back in the day, they sold beer in large plastic balls (?!).  You cut a hole in it and drank the beer.  Then afterwards put a socket and light bulb in it to make a hanging light.)  Most people who heard us talk about Zargon and the Lost City thought it was a rip off Indiana Jones movie....As a Freshman, I remember the day when one of the cool (senior) jock football stars came to me and asked me if I'd run a game.  Of course, I told him I don't play whatever that 'dragon game' is....but he had good sources.  He played in a D&D game himself...all jocks....they all worked at a Taco Bell and played after they closed(and back in the Time Before Time Taco Bell closed at 9pm).  They had a DM, Dave, who was not every good....he just did Alphabet Dungeons, walk into a room, pick a letter, fight a monster with that letter.  He had heard about Zargon.....so, a week later I was running a game for six jocks late at night, at a closed Taco Bell, sending them through the Lost City.A little while after that....I met my first girl gamer.  She was a friend of my sister...one day she came over with a huge rant as her brother would not let her play in his D&D game.  I just said "oh".  A couple minutes later, she walked by my room and spotted all the D&D stuff inside and she asked if she could join my game.  I did not have a game at that time...so she went out and found two other girl gamers and two other guys and we formed a group....still playing in the barn.A bit after this.....and I was approached by a popular cheerleader....with the all too common story.  She and her girl friends loved D&D...but no guys would ever let them join their group...odd they would say no to the pretty cheerleaders, but they did.  They loved She-Ra and Jem...so they were a group of illusionist pegataurs (that's half girl centaur and half pegisus).  After a while one of the other girls took over as DM for an Aliens RPG game....a group of female space marines....and me, as the synthoid robot.</blockquote>

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