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When were you hooked?
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Spider_Jerusalem
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I was born with a d20 in one hand, a plastic-wrapped 1e dungeons and dragons set (the pink box one) in the other, and a birth mark shaped like a thac0 chart on my chest.
Needless to say, I was whisked away by the Government.
But i didn't know what any of it meant until i was about 7. Someone let me play a game where i was a ninja with two "vorpal" swords, which killed anyone instantly. I'm not sure what he did, but hey, he could chop off heads like no-one... So that was cool.
But I think everyday that hook sinks deeper.
Needless to say, I was whisked away by the Government.
But i didn't know what any of it meant until i was about 7. Someone let me play a game where i was a ninja with two "vorpal" swords, which killed anyone instantly. I'm not sure what he did, but hey, he could chop off heads like no-one... So that was cool.
But I think everyday that hook sinks deeper.
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Plane Sailing
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For me it was 1975, when I read an article in "Games and Puzzles" magazine about this game where you became heroes walking through dungeons. My friend and I couldn't afford the price of the game (about 15x my weekly pocket money!) So I made up a set of rules and we started playing!
chillwindhaven69
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wow, you guys all go way back, i feel ashamed.
it all started for me at the age of 13, 3 years ago (stop laughing), i had read lord of the rings and the hobbit and my bro got me the dragonlance chronicles for my birthday, it is by far my favourite series of books ever, then the year after he got me legends, i was already playing baldurs gate by this time too.
one night i got asked to fill in for some guy in my brothers gaming group, i had to play his character which was unfortunate because he was cursed with dumbness, i couldnt speak in character all night, after that session the player left and i joined, 2 adventures later and 3rd edition came out, i played in the same group and also played with a neighbour of mine who is my age until he moved away.
now its just me and my mature gaming group, but its still cool. i think i was hooked when i first played baldurs gate, it was just so cool, i got killed by a gibberling. lol
it all started for me at the age of 13, 3 years ago (stop laughing), i had read lord of the rings and the hobbit and my bro got me the dragonlance chronicles for my birthday, it is by far my favourite series of books ever, then the year after he got me legends, i was already playing baldurs gate by this time too.
one night i got asked to fill in for some guy in my brothers gaming group, i had to play his character which was unfortunate because he was cursed with dumbness, i couldnt speak in character all night, after that session the player left and i joined, 2 adventures later and 3rd edition came out, i played in the same group and also played with a neighbour of mine who is my age until he moved away.
now its just me and my mature gaming group, but its still cool. i think i was hooked when i first played baldurs gate, it was just so cool, i got killed by a gibberling. lol
Spider_Jerusalem
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chillwindhaven69 said:
It's nothing to be ashamed of. A well organised Gibberling could, with the correct mental attitude, be a menace in anyones side.
gamecat
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My first brush with RPGs came in 2nd grade, when my folks (love 'em, both of 'em!) bought me Final Fantasy II. I couldn't understand part of the game, but damn, was it cool!!
I experienced D&D for the first time on the awfully done Eye of the Beholder SNES game. It sucked. Then friend Paul Shouse told me of 2e (buy his group's cd here, excellent techno! www.godkomplex.com) and I bought a PHB and played D&D for real for the first time.
I dropped $72 for the core three books at Heroes and Villans Comics, and it was the best goddamn investment I ever made.
I experienced D&D for the first time on the awfully done Eye of the Beholder SNES game. It sucked. Then friend Paul Shouse told me of 2e (buy his group's cd here, excellent techno! www.godkomplex.com) and I bought a PHB and played D&D for real for the first time.
I dropped $72 for the core three books at Heroes and Villans Comics, and it was the best goddamn investment I ever made.
dicecapades
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I started sometime around 1978, when I was six. My older brother Miguel and his friends were big time D&D geeks then, and when one of the guys moved away, thy needed someone to play the halfling. They sat me at the table and told me to roll dice when asked and not say much. 
I liked it tho, it was the only time I really asked to hang out with the big kids, and eventually I learned enough of the rules to make my own games with a couple of my girlfriends from school. We played now and then until about 1983 or so, when the She-ra cartoon came out. When we realized we could play the game just like the cartoon, we were hooked, playing 3 or 4 days a week until well into high school, when playing soccer became more important to me. Our games matured a little, moving away from She-ra and more towards stuff like Tolkien and Thieve's World and Shannara when we read those books, but it was still lots of fun, and our parents were glad to have us safe in the basement instead of out roaming the streets of Chicago.
Real life drama kept me away from serious gaming for a while after high school, but I got back into it some when I was in college here in florida, and then started dating a gamer and got crazy again
It's hard to believe it's been 24 years!
I liked it tho, it was the only time I really asked to hang out with the big kids, and eventually I learned enough of the rules to make my own games with a couple of my girlfriends from school. We played now and then until about 1983 or so, when the She-ra cartoon came out. When we realized we could play the game just like the cartoon, we were hooked, playing 3 or 4 days a week until well into high school, when playing soccer became more important to me. Our games matured a little, moving away from She-ra and more towards stuff like Tolkien and Thieve's World and Shannara when we read those books, but it was still lots of fun, and our parents were glad to have us safe in the basement instead of out roaming the streets of Chicago.
Real life drama kept me away from serious gaming for a while after high school, but I got back into it some when I was in college here in florida, and then started dating a gamer and got crazy again
It's hard to believe it's been 24 years!
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