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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1208544" data-attributes="member: 13654">I was really just a sci-fi buff to start out with as there just wasn't any fantasy around, at least not in our high school library.  It did have a bit of SF and I picked up a bit more in bookstores.  Then a friend suggested that I read Lord of the Rings (and I actually found out later that he'd never read the whole trilogy through himself) and I was just as solidly hooked on fantasy.  Shortly afterward this guy I was in a school play with (whom I knew only superficially as he was, I believe, a senior and I a sophmore at the time) came up to me one day after school and showed me this game he'd gotten hold of called Dungeons & Dragons.  He had some dice and a few figures too so we got some other players together and started gaming in his basement on the overturned ping-pong table.  I played almost continually every week for the next 20 years before real life circumstances started throwing the occasional hiatus of a few years into campaigns.I'm still not sure where HE actually picked it up from or what convinced him to buy it.  Had I seen it myself I likely would never have given it a second glance.  He must have found it while browsing through American Eagles in Seattle because that was THE game store we went to for D&D supplies for the next few decades (before they moved out of Greenwood to Lake City).Oh yeah, this was of course long before computer games actually existed (unless they were written in basic and no longer than about 50k to run on a TRS-80.)  I bought my first computer in 1979 - a Commodore 64.  By that time I'd been playing D&D for probably 4 years.</blockquote>

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