farscapesg1
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My first experience with gaming (2nd edition) was thanks to a friend. We had been friends for about a year before he brought up DND. Before long we were gaming almost every weekend. Thanks Chuck!!!
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Where did you find your first groups?
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KB9JMQ
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My first group was my younger brother and sister. We really taught each other to play and me to DM.
From the Red Box on everyone I played with, I taught how to play.
My current group I found by setting up a get together at a local book store when 3E came out. There were already self taught players from 1E.
I have never really been a gamestore person (mostly cause I have never had one in town where I lived).
From the Red Box on everyone I played with, I taught how to play.
My current group I found by setting up a get together at a local book store when 3E came out. There were already self taught players from 1E.
I have never really been a gamestore person (mostly cause I have never had one in town where I lived).
DonTadow
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My first group evolved with several of the guys I played Friday Night Magic with. There were about 10 of us and I started playing because the Magic guys were playinig and I figured it must be somewhat cool. I don't even remember the name of my first character, though it was a bard.
ElvishBard
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My first group was and is made up of my friends from high school and my family.
Thornir Alekeg
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I found the game on a visit to the local hobby store. Four people were playing D&D at a small table set up near the front. My friend who was with me and I watched them play and then they had us sit down and showed us how to play. We ended up getting the Basic set each and then began biking to the store to play. At the same time a couple of groups started playing during recess at school. Word got out about the hobby store and eventually the owner opened up the back room with two large and one smaller table for people to game at. During the school year we played on Saturdays and during the summer it changed to Tuesdays. At its peak we probably had 15-20 people showing up regularly, and a few more that dropped in occasionally.
In the end we got too big for the store, caused to much noise and disruption and were shut down by the owner when most of the people gaming stopped buying materials from the store, choosing instead to buy from the larger store in the city which acted as a local distributor and had lower prices as a result (but they didn't provide any place to game).
I continued to play with a smaller group from that store, shifting to one of the player's houses instead.
In the end we got too big for the store, caused to much noise and disruption and were shut down by the owner when most of the people gaming stopped buying materials from the store, choosing instead to buy from the larger store in the city which acted as a local distributor and had lower prices as a result (but they didn't provide any place to game).
I continued to play with a smaller group from that store, shifting to one of the player's houses instead.
freebfrost
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My eldest sister got me the game for my birthday in 1980. I immediately got together my group of junior high school friends and started a game.
There were a core group of about 6 of us through junior high and high school, with a fringe group of about 4 other players who would join us occasionally.
There were a core group of about 6 of us through junior high and high school, with a fringe group of about 4 other players who would join us occasionally.
Kanegrundar
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My first group was just my brother and I. Then I started gaming with my high school science teacher, his wife, and a couple other kids from my old school. I went on to college to game with various other groups before coming back homw to my old group. Now, I've moved again and don't have a regular group due to travel time and time in general. I still get together with my old group every now and then, however.
Kane
Kane
Ashrum the Black
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My first group was a bunch of us playing on the playground in school back in the early 80's. We had lots of fun and our "adventures" were pretty far fetched. That only lasted for a couple of years before we all split and went our seperate ways into the different clicks that made up the higher grades.
My first real group of "gamers" came about in the early college years. We had a blast and enjoyed ourselves thourghly, until the marriages and graduations started. Then life reared its head and once again the group was sent to the four winds.
My current group is made up of friends, my wife, and the few remenants of the last group that still talk to one another. We've been at it for the last four years and we've swelled to as large as 7 players, and a few as 3. But we keep gaming and having a blast doing it.
-Ashrum
My first real group of "gamers" came about in the early college years. We had a blast and enjoyed ourselves thourghly, until the marriages and graduations started. Then life reared its head and once again the group was sent to the four winds.
My current group is made up of friends, my wife, and the few remenants of the last group that still talk to one another. We've been at it for the last four years and we've swelled to as large as 7 players, and a few as 3. But we keep gaming and having a blast doing it.
-Ashrum
sniffles
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My then-boyfriend (now fiancee) has been gaming since high school. Most of his fellow players were older than he was - some by 10 years or more. He would go off to game on Sunday afternoons occasionally and I didn't object because I was usually busy myself. Then I became unemployed for an extended period and was really bored. One day I asked if I could come along and watch them play. My guy asked the GM if he'd object to a spectator, and the GM responded by encouraging me to come early and roll up a character of my own. I figured that if my SO enjoyed it I probably would too, so I gave it a try, and I've been hooked ever since.
BTW, I was 34 when I took that first dip in the gaming waters. Late bloomer, I guess.
It turned out that the GM liked to hook up new people to his gaming group. Eventually I ended up working at the same employer as one of my fellow players, and we now game together every week and talk gaming all the time at work (in low voices so our other coworkers don't overhear). Almost all of my friends are gamers or ex-gamers.
BTW, I was 34 when I took that first dip in the gaming waters. Late bloomer, I guess.
It turned out that the GM liked to hook up new people to his gaming group. Eventually I ended up working at the same employer as one of my fellow players, and we now game together every week and talk gaming all the time at work (in low voices so our other coworkers don't overhear). Almost all of my friends are gamers or ex-gamers.
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