Was D&D the game you introduced role playing with?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Funny you mention the prison thing. That was a pretty common editorial in Dragon from the print issues anyway - there is apparently a pretty large population of gamers in prison. I guess having large groups of (fairly) young men with very little to do makes for pretty large gaming populations.

That and the army apparently. I know when I was in the reserves, gaming was pretty widespread. Finding a group where ever I went was pretty easy. Lugging those damn books around wasn't though.

Gaming is the second best thing consenting adults can do with each other, right?

The first thing is often out in the listed environments, so...

 

[Rechan]

A friend of mine has used Shadowrun as the "First Gaming Experience".

 

[Jack7]

Back when I was starting out D&D was all there was.

But, generally speaking, I often introduce youngsters to gaming through wargaming and to role play gaming through D&D, though I use a self-created hybrid in that regard.

 

[Xyxox]

Since it was the only role playing game in existance at the time, I started with D&D (white box, three booklets and a folded sheet with tables).