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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2400105" data-attributes="member: 53">In another thread:This, combined with people insisting that roleplaying games will do fine once we lose the local gaming store (and we are losing them), made me think.  Where did I find my groups?Where did you find your first group or first groups?  Did you drop our of gaming and then pick up?  Where did you find that group?I started playing around 1978.  I saw an article in the paper about a local gaming group who played D&D, and used it to play through the Lord of the Rings story.  I realized that was the game I was looking for.I found a copy at a local hobby store/craft shop and picked it up.  Initially, my brother was the only player.  Periodically I would stop by and look for new things (indeed, I kept checking to see when the Player's Handbook and later, Dungeon Master's Guide were out).  One day someone else was looking and we started talking.  He was looking for someone to game with also.  I had found my first DM.Within the next few months we played a bit with a friend of his he got to play.  Eventually, I was reading the PHB at school in a side room from the classroom while the class took a test that I didn't have to take for some reason).  Someone else from another class was there and started asking questions about D&D.  I found another player.  Together we found another player that we both already knew.That was my first group.  With one or two other players those player brought in.Eventually, I went to the local University.  I knew D&D was common there because the group in the aforementioned article played there, plus the one D&D convention Delaware ever had was held there.  The commuter's lounge was roleplaying heaven.  You could usually find a roleplaying game going on.  I was exposed to half a dozen roleplaying games (Arduin, Dragonquest, Melanda) through that.  I probably met 100 different gamers there in my first semester at school.Towards the end of that semester, I found out that the people in the article were opening a games store.  They decided to call it "The Days of Knights."  I ended up becoming friends with them.  From that gaming store (which is still in business, although it's down the street now) I've met  too many gamers to count.  I've played more games that I can possibly remember, and was exposed to even more.  For years, Saturdays were spent from noon-midnight (and later) playing Champions and later Melanda (the local published roleplaying system).Essentially, most of the people I gamed with came from school (particularly the University of Delaware) and the local gaming store.  What about you?</blockquote>

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