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<blockquote data-quote="Turhan" data-source="post: 3265562" data-attributes="member: 21856">Great Story.I was about 31 or 32 when a friend of mine from work asked (after we'd played a PC game called Wing Commander for 8 hours straight) if I'd ever heard of DnD.&nbsp; I said no.&nbsp; How I'd managed not to ever hear of Dungeons and Dragons, I can't tell you.&nbsp; Then he asked me if I'd ever read Tolkien- I said &quot;Yes, loved it.&nbsp; I've read Fritz Lieber, Michael Moorcock &amp; Robert E Howard too.&nbsp; All great fantasy stuff.&nbsp; Why?&quot;He said, &quot;Well, I know this game, it takes maybe 30 minutes to learn, and it's like putting yourself into all those great stories, except you get to make up a lot of the story as you go along.&quot;&nbsp; This was about 1991 and the game was ADnD or 2E...So, the next Thursday evening, in a cold, drafty garage, with a lot of cigar smoke drifting about, I met some guys and one gal sitting around a sturdy wooden table.&nbsp; They’d all known each other for 5-10 years and the game was basically one endless campaign that my friend (the DM) had been running since his Air Force days back in 74 or 75 (the first rules).&nbsp; A homebrew campaign with most of the normal DnD stuff we have now- illithids, drow, neogi, orcs, dragons and, well, dungeons.&nbsp; They were all around 18th to 24th level PCs and I had to start out as a 17th level fighter, but I had to earn all of my levels before I could advance to 18th.Have any of you heard of Larry Nivens/J. Pournelle’s books: Man Kzin Wars?&nbsp; Well, my friend and I had just read the first two and he said, You want to play a renegade Kzin prisoner?&nbsp; Your first job is to escape from this neogi spelljammer.&nbsp; I said, what do I do?&nbsp; He handed me the dice.The guy next to me asked me my character’s name.&nbsp; “I am called Hunter.”Is that who you are, or what you do?“Yes.”&nbsp; My catch phrase was, &quot;Kill and Eat.&quot;The next week I started on my long history of collecting, painting and sometime modifying miniatures.&nbsp; Hunter was my first mini and I still have that huge, cat like warrior fella hangin’ about.&nbsp; The DnD thing is still with me too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Turhan, post: 3265562, member: 21856"] Great Story. I was about 31 or 32 when a friend of mine from work asked (after we'd played a PC game called Wing Commander for 8 hours straight) if I'd ever heard of DnD. I said no. How I'd managed not to ever hear of Dungeons and Dragons, I can't tell you. Then he asked me if I'd ever read Tolkien- I said "Yes, loved it. I've read Fritz Lieber, Michael Moorcock & Robert E Howard too. All great fantasy stuff. Why?" He said, "Well, I know this game, it takes maybe 30 minutes to learn, and it's like putting yourself into all those great stories, except you get to make up a lot of the story as you go along." This was about 1991 and the game was ADnD or 2E... So, the next Thursday evening, in a cold, drafty garage, with a lot of cigar smoke drifting about, I met some guys and one gal sitting around a sturdy wooden table. They’d all known each other for 5-10 years and the game was basically one endless campaign that my friend (the DM) had been running since his Air Force days back in 74 or 75 (the first rules). A homebrew campaign with most of the normal DnD stuff we have now- illithids, drow, neogi, orcs, dragons and, well, dungeons. They were all around 18th to 24th level PCs and I had to start out as a 17th level fighter, but I had to earn all of my levels before I could advance to 18th. Have any of you heard of Larry Nivens/J. Pournelle’s books: Man Kzin Wars? Well, my friend and I had just read the first two and he said, You want to play a renegade Kzin prisoner? Your first job is to escape from this neogi spelljammer. I said, what do I do? He handed me the dice. The guy next to me asked me my character’s name. “I am called Hunter.” Is that who you are, or what you do? “Yes.” My catch phrase was, "Kill and Eat." The next week I started on my long history of collecting, painting and sometime modifying miniatures. Hunter was my first mini and I still have that huge, cat like warrior fella hangin’ about. The DnD thing is still with me too. [/QUOTE]

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