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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balrog" data-source="post: 322695" data-attributes="member: 3543">I was introduced to D&D initially through the library in about 4th or 5th grade.  I would go to read  books on King Arthur and other mythology.  Once, while sitting at a table minding my own business with my nose in a book, i heard a group of kids laughing and carrying on at a table nearby.  Turns out they were gaming.  Well, it piqued my curiousity, but i didnt actually start playing until 6th grade, after my family had moved to Corpus Christi, Texas.  In the meantime, I had read CS Lewis' Narnia books, and had started the Hobbit on a roadtrip with my parents.  While in the car during the trek from Des Moines to Corpus Christi, I unimaginatively declared, "I am bored."  Well, as luck would have it, my dad had a copy of the Hobbit in the car!  He handed it to me, and the rest is history.  I finished it on the trip, and not too long after that read the Lord of the Rings.  It was also in the first few months after moving to CC in 1981 that I met my first friends that gamed, and I have gamed ever since.  I too loved those Choose Your Own Adventure Books; i still have them i think, as well as that original copy of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings(for sentimental value).  In the early days, i read some Elric, Earthsea, Dune, Piers Anthony, basically anything I could get my hands on.  The titles of Dungeon of Dread, Pillars of Pentagarn, Return to Brookmere, and the Mountain of Mirrors still bring back memories of hours of reading fun.  It was hours and hours of reading fantasy that made me the hopeless dreamer i still am....<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The Flame of Udun</blockquote>

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