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<blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 9083433" data-attributes="member: 7038056">I was at my cousin's house when I was probably 7. My older cousin ran a BECMI game for a couple of us. I can't remember much about the game, beyond me being more intent on using a lit torch as a weapon to fight off a skeleton instead of my sword. I don't remember playing BECMI much, because my cousin had a few other games he tried out with us and we ended up liking the Palladium TMNT game more. Fast forward to 6th grade. On the first day of school, the kid behind me in class had a copy of the Dragonlance book Legend of Huma, which got my attention because the cover art was the same as the NES game I had just wasted my last summer weekend game rental on, Heroes of the Lance. He ended up letting me read the book when he finished, so that was my first exposure to Dragonlance. A couple years later while at another friend's house, he showed me the recently released Tales of the Lance boxed set for 2e his mom had bought him as a gift since she knew he liked the Dragonlance books. It looked really cool, but no one had any of the 2e game material to actually play it so I ended up buying a 2e PHB to figure out how the game worked. That was the start of my teenage gaming circle that lasted until we went our separate ways in life after graduation, but we had some glorious summer campaign games that featured many marathon 12 hour days of gaming. 43 year old me questions how I DMed for that long given how much prep work I do now for my weekly 3 hour game and the obvious answer is lots of Mountain Dew and making stuff up as I went along.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Velderan, post: 9083433, member: 7038056"] I was at my cousin's house when I was probably 7. My older cousin ran a BECMI game for a couple of us. I can't remember much about the game, beyond me being more intent on using a lit torch as a weapon to fight off a skeleton instead of my sword. I don't remember playing BECMI much, because my cousin had a few other games he tried out with us and we ended up liking the Palladium TMNT game more. Fast forward to 6th grade. On the first day of school, the kid behind me in class had a copy of the Dragonlance book Legend of Huma, which got my attention because the cover art was the same as the NES game I had just wasted my last summer weekend game rental on, Heroes of the Lance. He ended up letting me read the book when he finished, so that was my first exposure to Dragonlance. A couple years later while at another friend's house, he showed me the recently released Tales of the Lance boxed set for 2e his mom had bought him as a gift since she knew he liked the Dragonlance books. It looked really cool, but no one had any of the 2e game material to actually play it so I ended up buying a 2e PHB to figure out how the game worked. That was the start of my teenage gaming circle that lasted until we went our separate ways in life after graduation, but we had some glorious summer campaign games that featured many marathon 12 hour days of gaming. 43 year old me questions how I DMed for that long given how much prep work I do now for my weekly 3 hour game and the obvious answer is lots of Mountain Dew and making stuff up as I went along. [/QUOTE]

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