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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8725859" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>It was second grade - probably 1981 or 82. We had a rain day and we were stuck inside. One of the kids convinced us to play this game that his brother had been playing called "Dungeons and Dragons". We stole the dice out of one of the boardgames the class had (I swear it was Risk but why would there be a game of Risk in a 2nd grade classroom?) and he ran an adventure for us. As far as I can remember it wasn't really D&D in the sense that there's no way we were using the actual rules - he was having us roll things based on vaguely trying to copy what his older brother was doing. But after that I was hooked. We played it every rainy or snowy day after that and sometimes we'd try to sneak dice and paper out onto the playground to play (teachers put a stop to that - for some reason seeing a bunch of kids huddled over dice on the playground made them nervous - probably thought we were gambling or something). </p><p></p><p>We moved away at the end of the school year, but in the place we moved to I found a friend whose older brother was a huge D&D nerd and was willing to run games for 8-10 year olds when he wasn't too busy or running his "real" game. And at some point my mom bought me a Basic set from Sears or Target and I was set onto the path of becoming a DM myself. But I still remember things from that first "campaign" from 2nd grade sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8725859, member: 19857"] It was second grade - probably 1981 or 82. We had a rain day and we were stuck inside. One of the kids convinced us to play this game that his brother had been playing called "Dungeons and Dragons". We stole the dice out of one of the boardgames the class had (I swear it was Risk but why would there be a game of Risk in a 2nd grade classroom?) and he ran an adventure for us. As far as I can remember it wasn't really D&D in the sense that there's no way we were using the actual rules - he was having us roll things based on vaguely trying to copy what his older brother was doing. But after that I was hooked. We played it every rainy or snowy day after that and sometimes we'd try to sneak dice and paper out onto the playground to play (teachers put a stop to that - for some reason seeing a bunch of kids huddled over dice on the playground made them nervous - probably thought we were gambling or something). We moved away at the end of the school year, but in the place we moved to I found a friend whose older brother was a huge D&D nerd and was willing to run games for 8-10 year olds when he wasn't too busy or running his "real" game. And at some point my mom bought me a Basic set from Sears or Target and I was set onto the path of becoming a DM myself. But I still remember things from that first "campaign" from 2nd grade sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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