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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pseudonym" data-source="post: 2572885" data-attributes="member: 4479">I learned D&D at my father's knee, literally. I was eight years old when I created my first character, but I had been watching the adults play for probably a year or so.  This was back in 1982.Weekend sessions beginning Saturdays and sometimes resuming on Sundays.It's hard to say.  I suppose it was on some level the feeling of being included and participating in a group that clearly seemed to be enjoying themselves.  It was in some way a bonding type moment; father and son sort of thing.  I saw it on the same level and going fishing or playing catch.On another level, I enjoyed the storytelling and the imagination.  I could grasp the "let's pretend" aspect of it, but it was much deeper and enjoyable than playing cops and robbers in the back yard.  The house was full of fantasy and sci-fi novels, and we used to listen to old radio serials, so it seemed a natural extension of that.Not directly.  My father ran his game with his Army buddies, I had a character of my own, but I never ran for them.  As I got older, I began playing with kids my own age, and had my fahter to go to for advice and ideas.  My first adventures were either me attempting to emulate what the adult group had done, or playing modules and pretty much winging it.  Not really.  I have Mr Gygax to thank for expanding my vocabulary at an early age.  I had the advantage of seeing some of the more complicated mechanics in actual play, so when it came to me it was more imitating the rules as explained orally rather than attempting to go from the DMG without any other frame of reference.Should my wife let me, yes.I would take the same approach as I learned.  I started by sitting on my dad's lap taking it all in and occasionally rolling dice for him.  That seems as good a start as any.</blockquote>

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