What got you hooked on the fantasy genre?

[jdavis]

I was home on a snow day and some of the older kids had the D&D boxed set, it was all downhill from there, I was 8 years old and got a big thrill from just being able to play with the cool 10 and 12 year olds. My very first fantasy book was the Silmarillian, the LOTR saga followed shortly after that.

 

[Skade]

Re: Re: What got you hooked on the fantasy genre?

Lone Wolf? Never heard of it.

Lone Wolf was great. They were sort of Choose-Your-Own_Adventure books written by Joe Dever. They were very English - English spellings, dark foul creatures, cool fonts. Anyway, they had character sheets, you got items, and magical powers and you were out to save the world from the Darklords who had wiped out your monastery. It went on for about 13 books or so, it might have been more. Each one continued on into the next, and if you had certain items from previous books, or remeberd clues it made the next book easier.

 

[Sanackranib]

Ditto

It was of course Tolkien. I was probably six when I first saw the animated Hobbit

Like you I was intrigued by this at a very young age maby 1978 or so, whenever it was that the animated hobit was shown on TV
I could sleep so I had gotten up and was watching tv with my dad when the hobbit came on. I was instantly fasinated (hokey folk music and all) later it was the whole pern series by Anne Mccaffrey as well as books like Ivanhoe , Robin Hood and of course al of the stuff I could find on King Arthur. so I guess I would have to say I have always been interested in this stuff

 

[Eternalknight]

Re: Re: What got you hooked on the fantasy genre?

Lone Wolf? Never heard of it.

Liar

 

[Eternalknight]

Re: Re: Re: What got you hooked on the fantasy genre?

Lone Wolf was great. They were sort of Choose-Your-Own_Adventure books written by Joe Dever. They were very English - English spellings, dark foul creatures, cool fonts. Anyway, they had character sheets, you got items, and magical powers and you were out to save the world from the Darklords who had wiped out your monastery. It went on for about 13 books or so, it might have been more. Each one continued on into the next, and if you had certain items from previous books, or remeberd clues it made the next book easier.

28 books to be exact. Also, he was kidding - have a look at his user name

 

[Kai Lord]

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28 books to be exact. Also, he was kidding - have a look at his user name

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'm one of those new crowd who found D&D through fantasy videogames that were, of course, at first based on D&D.

Final Fantasy IV was the game that hooked me on the fantasy genre. Swords. Sorcerery. Quests for redemption, rommance and drama. It let me know that you don't have to ground things in reality to have evocative characters and enjoyable plots. And, in fact, some things could only be done in fantasy that couldn't be done in real life drama.

I remember the game with much fondness, now. I play it every once in a while, just to get an inkling of how it felt to watch Damcyan be bombed for the first time.

From there I moved on to other FF games...including Final Fantasy 1, which probably had the *most* rip-offs from D&D around.

I found D&D soon after...and recognizing some of the icons encouraged me to keep going.

And finding out the link was tenuous is what lead me to develop FFd20.

This is probably why my games are very very plot heavy, somewhat theological, and always 'heavy.' Probably why they also have some anime qualities to them. I've moved past it for the most part, but I just can't get over how much of a squealing fanboy I am for this.

 

[Milo Bloom]

I believe the animated hobbit is also what got me hooked on fantasy. I saw it back when it first came out in theaters. After that I spent a lot of time reading series like Narnia Chronicles, The Black Cauldron, etc...One short year later and I was playing D&D.

It's pretty much been a enjoyable downhill ride from there.

 

[Sixchan]

My dad read me the Hobbit when I was 5. He was also into D&D, and got me hooked on 1e back when I was 7. From there, I went on to lots of Fantasy novels, and Sci-Fi as well, leading to things with Fantasy and Sci-Fi in them, like Final Fantasy. I completely missed out on 2e, having th traditionalists prejudice towards 1st edition. Then I got hooked on the new D&D.

 

[Dave Blewer]

For me it was that old classic "Jason and the Argonauts". I remember being absolutely wowed by it one saturday morning when I was about 11 or so.

A couple of weeks later a friend was trying to get me interested in this new game he had called Dungeons and Dragons.

"Does it have skeletons, like in Jason and the Argonauts" asked I, innocently

When he assured me it did, I was hooked!