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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2572819" data-attributes="member: 21076">I am first generation gamer, started in the '81 or '82 era with the Moldvay Basic set when I was around ten years old.  I played quite a bit back then, though a lot of it was "solo" adventures and on occasion just fighting everything in the critter section!  A lot of time back then was spent reading the rules and writing adventures and campaign worlds, so while I may not have had a regular group all the time, I still was able to fill lots of my free time with the game.I think I liked the fantasy feel of the game the most.  The wonderful monsters, the wizards, the shady rogues, the battle hardened fighters creeping into dungeons and caves.  Heck, a lot of that is still true today.  The game is an outlet, a break if you will from reality.No one taught me the rules really.  I just read and re-read until I was able to play the game.  At the time I think several areas of the rules were pretty murky, but we played anyways and eventually those areas started to make more sense too.  I seem to recall the pecentile dice being a bit of a mystery that first year of playing!I don't plan on directly teaching IronPup unless he expresses and interest in it.  If he expresses interest I will happily teach him how to play and even run sessions for his friends and such when he is old enough.  I might encourage him here or there, but by no means pressure him into it.  For instance, he owns nearly a complete set of fuzzy dice now....  No harm in that!The only thing I would do different would be to not have taken the long gap from gaming like I did after college and up until the last couple of years.  Other than that, I doubt I would have done much differently.  And who knows, the break may have good for me, so even that isn't too much of something I would have done differently.</blockquote>

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