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<blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8725846" data-attributes="member: 79428">I was introduced to D&amp;D in my junior year of high school back in 2006 (wish it could have been sooner, TBH). A senior in an art class I was taking had the 3.5 PHB out. I asked to take a look, and a few days later a friend and I were running through a sample combat encounter the senior prepared for our first characters (mine was a half-elf monk). Unfortunately, I didn't really get to play much more until 4E came out, and it wasn't until 5E got popular that I got to play more regularly.I did become very interested in the game, especially the lore, and ran several 3.5 games in high school as well as a few 4E games in my senior year and college. My very first time DMing was from the 3.5 Basic Set that featured a black dragon on the cover. I ran a few friends through this adventure and have been influenced by it ever since (especially the magic mirror looking for its owner Venzor that the party smashed without investigating; I keep meaning to put it in a future adventure some day). One party member almost died from infectious blue mushrooms, and another died and came back to life as an intelligent dire rat (I didn’t want the player to be bored). Later I would create a number of more episodic homebrew adventures, the first of which featured orcs in an old fortress with captives. I had drawn art of a piglike orc boss (I had played JRPGs growing up, which often use piglike orc designs) that I had intended to be a recurring antagonist and quickly learned not to count on bad guys surviving for a second appearance!Those were my formative experiences. I'm curious to hear how others' went.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hexmage-EN, post: 8725846, member: 79428"] I was introduced to D&D in my junior year of high school back in 2006 (wish it could have been sooner, TBH). A senior in an art class I was taking had the 3.5 PHB out. I asked to take a look, and a few days later a friend and I were running through a sample combat encounter the senior prepared for our first characters (mine was a half-elf monk). Unfortunately, I didn't really get to play much more until 4E came out, and it wasn't until 5E got popular that I got to play more regularly. I did become very interested in the game, especially the lore, and ran several 3.5 games in high school as well as a few 4E games in my senior year and college. My very first time DMing was from the 3.5 Basic Set that featured a black dragon on the cover. I ran a few friends through this adventure and have been influenced by it ever since (especially the magic mirror looking for its owner Venzor that the party smashed without investigating; I keep meaning to put it in a future adventure some day). One party member almost died from infectious blue mushrooms, and another died and came back to life as an intelligent dire rat (I didn’t want the player to be bored). Later I would create a number of more episodic homebrew adventures, the first of which featured orcs in an old fortress with captives. I had drawn art of a piglike orc boss (I had played JRPGs growing up, which often use piglike orc designs) that I had intended to be a recurring antagonist and quickly learned not to count on bad guys surviving for a second appearance! Those were my formative experiences. I'm curious to hear how others' went. [/QUOTE]

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