Tyler Do'Urden
Soap Maker
Ah yes, it was my senior year of high school. My friend Keith had invited her over to GM a game of Changeling: The Dreaming and one thing lead to another... and... oh... wait... wrong story.
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When were you hooked?
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Gothmog
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For me it would have been when I was 10 in 5th grade back in '84. It was over X-mas break, and a bunch of my friends and I were over at another friend's house for a sleepover, when Kirk (my friend's older brother) asked if we wanted to play a new game he picked up called AD&D. I made a dwarven fighter (dwarf power!) who somehow managed to hit every trap we ran into and slaughtered an entire tribe of kobolds with nary a scratch. I was hooked from that point on! 
VorpalBunny
Explorer
For me, it was the fall of 1980 - I just started the 7th grade. An older friend of mine was already playing, and told me about this great "new" game called Dungeons and Dragons. I made up a character, a magic-user named Merlin (whattya want? I was 11!) and my friend DM'ed me and my brother through The Keep on the Borderlands. I knew I was hooked when I spent the entire next day at school wondering what goodies were in a chest that I didn't have time to open in the game the previous night...
abri
Mad Scientist
Well actually I made it from "books which you are the heroes", there was one series called "sword of legend, which you played with 4 other peoples. They made a RPG out of it called land of legend: I loved it. And then a friend showed me "stormbringer": I was hooked, beyond any possible recovery and started getting my hands on any RPG I could find (Note: in France in those time that wasn't many). Although in those time, media portrayed RPG as extremly dangerous, I was lucky enough to have understanding parents.
Ps: my mother once thought that my darksun maps were wearing out, so she made color photocopy of them and had them covered with plastic!
Ps: my mother once thought that my darksun maps were wearing out, so she made color photocopy of them and had them covered with plastic!
Sir Osis of Liver
Explorer
Believe it or not, i was four or five, and watching TV. Yup the D&D cartoon did it for me. i didn't actually get to play the game entill fifth grade, but for likeing it was a forgone conclusion.
A little old lady who befriended me when I was around 10 took me to Horticultural Hall down the street from where I lived. This was like Gen Con 5, I think? She wanted to introduce me to a nice young boy who I reminded her of, named Ernie, and his father Gary. They had tables there with 12" high horse statues that had knights riding on them (I think they had adapted some of the Bonanza toys), and one guy (Jimmy Goodfellow) was pretending to be the knight, and speaking in this very effectively pretentious tone. I was immediately struck by how absurdly fun this was!
A few months later on a gaming munchie break a check out lady was staring at me with a stunned look for my having said something really weird, like, "Yeah, but if we gut him first we can take all of his gold!" Nobody had really heard of DnD yet. Not even at the Lake Geneva Sentry grocery store. Luckily she didn't call the cops. But that was the moment I knew I was in far too deep to ever get out.
It was only months later when I was considering changing my name to Hitherby Burtonson Ghoulfitch Fruiteecream when American Public Television aired the first episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It's been a struggle to function as a whole human being ever since, to say nothing of my Root Beer Float habit.
A few months later on a gaming munchie break a check out lady was staring at me with a stunned look for my having said something really weird, like, "Yeah, but if we gut him first we can take all of his gold!" Nobody had really heard of DnD yet. Not even at the Lake Geneva Sentry grocery store. Luckily she didn't call the cops. But that was the moment I knew I was in far too deep to ever get out.
It was only months later when I was considering changing my name to Hitherby Burtonson Ghoulfitch Fruiteecream when American Public Television aired the first episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It's been a struggle to function as a whole human being ever since, to say nothing of my Root Beer Float habit.
Trevalon Moonleirion
Explorer
Ahhh... it wasn't all that long ago now. It was the middle of fifth grade, and I was cleaning my grandma's house with her when I remembered a childhood curiosity of mine: that mysterious game in my uncle's closet called Dark Tower. We were pretty much done with cleaning, so she told me that we could play it for a while--she didn't really remember it too well, but it could be fun.
For anyone who doesn't know that game, there was a big plastic tower in the center of the gameboard. It was electronic and almost never worked. After enjoying it for a while, we got fed up with the tower jamming up and my grandma had an idea for me. I had played a D&D game for Sega Genesis called Warriors of the Eternal Sun and had a bit of fun, even though I didn't really understand it at the time. I had mentioned this to my grandma before and she told me, "oh, I played D&D. I was a 13th level cleric!" Turns out she had played D&D with her son (my uncle) and a few neighbors back in the early 80s.
"I think I still have my old Dungeons & Dragons book, let me go look for it," she said, and I went back to her room with her and she was poking around on her shelf for a while and she pulled it down. Flipping through the book that night, my curiosity was instantly piqued. She mentioned the days events to her old DM, a neighbor and family friend whom she still played pinochle with. A week or two later I got a call one night from Carl, the friend. "Hey Jason...I heard that you're interested in playing D&D..."
It was official--I was hooked.
Now how many people do you know who played D&D with their Grandma? lol.
For anyone who doesn't know that game, there was a big plastic tower in the center of the gameboard. It was electronic and almost never worked. After enjoying it for a while, we got fed up with the tower jamming up and my grandma had an idea for me. I had played a D&D game for Sega Genesis called Warriors of the Eternal Sun and had a bit of fun, even though I didn't really understand it at the time. I had mentioned this to my grandma before and she told me, "oh, I played D&D. I was a 13th level cleric!" Turns out she had played D&D with her son (my uncle) and a few neighbors back in the early 80s.
"I think I still have my old Dungeons & Dragons book, let me go look for it," she said, and I went back to her room with her and she was poking around on her shelf for a while and she pulled it down. Flipping through the book that night, my curiosity was instantly piqued. She mentioned the days events to her old DM, a neighbor and family friend whom she still played pinochle with. A week or two later I got a call one night from Carl, the friend. "Hey Jason...I heard that you're interested in playing D&D..."
It was official--I was hooked.
Now how many people do you know who played D&D with their Grandma? lol.
Rashak Mani
First Post
Grandmas playing D&D !! I envy your family !! 
GravyFingerz
Gravymancer
This has to be a funny story, sad but funny.
One day, one of my friends came over and we were hanging out (this was around 6th grade) and he started talking about Dungeons & Dragons. I thought it was cool, so started begging him to play. Well, he was reluctant, and wanted to go home, so he quickly rolled up some stats (I awed and googled at the numbers) and he set me in this little scenario.
There was this huge mountain with a huge double door. So I opened the door and walked inside this tunnel. There, I met a goblin. I tried to attack it, but it hit me and killed me (only had 1 hp). He pretty much wanted to end quickly, and when he did, he left.
I thought that was the coolest thing in the entirety of existance.
That was the exact moment I was hooked.
One day, one of my friends came over and we were hanging out (this was around 6th grade) and he started talking about Dungeons & Dragons. I thought it was cool, so started begging him to play. Well, he was reluctant, and wanted to go home, so he quickly rolled up some stats (I awed and googled at the numbers) and he set me in this little scenario.
There was this huge mountain with a huge double door. So I opened the door and walked inside this tunnel. There, I met a goblin. I tried to attack it, but it hit me and killed me (only had 1 hp). He pretty much wanted to end quickly, and when he did, he left.
I thought that was the coolest thing in the entirety of existance.
That was the exact moment I was hooked.
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