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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8561918" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>Born and raised on a farm in southern Minnesota, graduated from High School with the biggest class (and one of the last before the school consolidated) they had seen for a while, a whopping 28 kids. Started playing D&D when a friend's brother brought this new game back from college in 76(?) with dwarven fighters, hobbit thieves, elven fighter mages and the only alignments law and chaos. </p><p></p><p>We didn't really know what we were doing but all of us were fans of Tolkien and various fantasy authors. We switched over to the blue box basic set when it came out and then AD&D and I continued to play of and on in college. After graduating and getting into software development had a dry spell for a while until a group formed at work and I joined a game with my wife to be.</p><p></p><p>The rest is history. Moved around some (well, too much) because jobs dried up where we were largely because I tried to stick with the same company that was slowly shrinking. But we formed new groups everywhere or got involved in public games and it was a great way to meet people. Ran one game day and helped run another game days during the transition from 3.5 to 4E and then for most of 4E's run. About the time 5E came out the game days were dying and I had switched to home games. A few years ago we moved to a suburb of Minneapolis in Minnesota to be closer to family. We started up yet another home group I run and my wife runs a game for me, my sister, nephews and 1 significant other.</p><p></p><p>Back in High School I did a lot of traditional dungeon crawls, with fun things like a dungeon who's hallways spelled out things like DOOM and DEATH. But even back then I started mapping and building out a world that I still use to this day. Once I got back into D&D in the 90s, our DM eventually burned out and rather than just admitting it decided to see how unfun he could make the game before we quit. It didn't take long. Since then I've been DMing about half the time, either in public games (from Living City to Adventurer's League) or with my wife running a game.</p><p></p><p>Outside of gaming, last year was pretty momentous because I retired and turned 60. Thankfully everyone we game with is vaccinated so we're back to gaming in person, although we don't get together as often as I would sometimes like. Oh, and we have too many cats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8561918, member: 6801845"] Born and raised on a farm in southern Minnesota, graduated from High School with the biggest class (and one of the last before the school consolidated) they had seen for a while, a whopping 28 kids. Started playing D&D when a friend's brother brought this new game back from college in 76(?) with dwarven fighters, hobbit thieves, elven fighter mages and the only alignments law and chaos. We didn't really know what we were doing but all of us were fans of Tolkien and various fantasy authors. We switched over to the blue box basic set when it came out and then AD&D and I continued to play of and on in college. After graduating and getting into software development had a dry spell for a while until a group formed at work and I joined a game with my wife to be. The rest is history. Moved around some (well, too much) because jobs dried up where we were largely because I tried to stick with the same company that was slowly shrinking. But we formed new groups everywhere or got involved in public games and it was a great way to meet people. Ran one game day and helped run another game days during the transition from 3.5 to 4E and then for most of 4E's run. About the time 5E came out the game days were dying and I had switched to home games. A few years ago we moved to a suburb of Minneapolis in Minnesota to be closer to family. We started up yet another home group I run and my wife runs a game for me, my sister, nephews and 1 significant other. Back in High School I did a lot of traditional dungeon crawls, with fun things like a dungeon who's hallways spelled out things like DOOM and DEATH. But even back then I started mapping and building out a world that I still use to this day. Once I got back into D&D in the 90s, our DM eventually burned out and rather than just admitting it decided to see how unfun he could make the game before we quit. It didn't take long. Since then I've been DMing about half the time, either in public games (from Living City to Adventurer's League) or with my wife running a game. Outside of gaming, last year was pretty momentous because I retired and turned 60. Thankfully everyone we game with is vaccinated so we're back to gaming in person, although we don't get together as often as I would sometimes like. Oh, and we have too many cats. [/QUOTE]
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