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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nethervoid" data-source="post: 2573680" data-attributes="member: 35562">How old were you when you started playing?I started playing odnd boxed when I was about 12?  I played it during this one summer my cousins and I worked on my grandpa's farm (sorta, we helped build a shed and chopped wood).  It was a lot of fun.I picked it back up when I was about 14.  This time Adnd.  I think version 2?  I played for about a year I think.How often did you play?The first time around, every weekend.  The second time, about 3 times a week, usually after school.What did you like best about the game when young? Well this was before mainstream MMORPGs, and Zelda was pretty much the new standard for RPGs as well as pretty much the only one out at the time (with quests etc not just hack and slash).  I guess my favorite thing about dnd was I never really knew what was going to happen next.  Something you can't say for any other game.  In almost every other game out there, you pretty much always know what to expect.Were you ever taught to run the game or create adventures?I wasn't taught to make adventures.  In fact, all I ever really made were dungeons, now that I think about it.  The towns were always 'on the fly' to 'pick up gear' and head out to the nearest crypt or whatnot.  I did start doing some world contstruction, etc, around the age of 20 when I wanted to get back into it, but I didn't know of anyone playing at the time, and the internet wasn't really there yet.Did you find any gaming materials hard to read or difficult to understand?Not really.  Well yes and no.  Mainly we kinda skipped the weird combat stuff like swing speed and things, and pretty much stuck to THAC0, attack rolls, damage, and rounds, oh and initiative.  We didn't use any other books than the core, and we didn't do anything odd enough to need seroius rules for.Now that you are grown, do you plan on teaching your own kids to play D&D?Well my son has been playing games since 3 (now 7), where I started him on Diablo II, which he still plays.  I also told him he needed a gaming handle. lol!  He's andrewpunk.  He always wants to play the games I'm playing, which means he's played:  Ultima Online, Everquest, Planetside, and a couple others (pretty good resume for age 7!).  His mom doesn't like Dnd (old church girl), so he won't be learning about dnd for awhile.  Someday I'm sure he'll play.  He LOVES games.  Oh, his older cousin is trying to get him into dnd.  lolWhat would you do differently? The same?Well I always thought I would have been more social in school if I could do it all over again, which means, conversly, that I might not have been into dnd at all (my friends got me into it).  In fact, I probably would have had different friends all-together.As far as what would I have done differently as far as strait dnd?  Probably kept my box sets and old copies of adnd (during my early 20s).  I threw it all out when I thought I'd never play again.  =(</blockquote>

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