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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5246972" data-attributes="member: 28487">For those of us not American what do grades 3 and 4 mean, 'cause I can never remember.I never heard of D&amp;D until my late teens circa 18/19 and then in the context of text adventure games in computer magasines this would have been the late eighties in Ireland. Then I came across the Red Box basic set and tried that out. Did a postgrad in TCD and discovered that tey had a boardgames club and D&amp;D was mentioned as an activity. Joined but at the time no-one was running games. They were all playing wargames so I joined in that. Avalon Hills Russian Front was my first game and got my ass handed to me.So that followed up with more wargames, Then later some rpg activity restarted AD&amp;D, TFT, Palladium, WHFRP, MERP some other bits and bobs in between to the background of more and more complex board wargames.Some Napoleonic minis later. Post College, I move back home and very little then on occasion I ran Palladium, WHFRP, played some MERP. Burned out as DM and that followed a long period with very little gaming. Mostly tri annual meetups with college buddies.Got Back in to D&amp;D3e but was never comfortable running, though I ran stuff for my nephews. 4e came and I love it, running a campaign for the nephews (not as regular as I would like but I run at their schedule) and so far having a good time.Still meetup with the college buddies, mostly boardgames but the original college palladium campaign still continues even through 3 system changes (palladium, D&amp;D 3.x and 4.0). I still get the odd wargame in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 5246972, member: 28487"] For those of us not American what do grades 3 and 4 mean, 'cause I can never remember. I never heard of D&D until my late teens circa 18/19 and then in the context of text adventure games in computer magasines this would have been the late eighties in Ireland. Then I came across the Red Box basic set and tried that out. Did a postgrad in TCD and discovered that tey had a boardgames club and D&D was mentioned as an activity. Joined but at the time no-one was running games. They were all playing wargames so I joined in that. Avalon Hills Russian Front was my first game and got my ass handed to me. So that followed up with more wargames, Then later some rpg activity restarted AD&D, TFT, Palladium, WHFRP, MERP some other bits and bobs in between to the background of more and more complex board wargames. Some Napoleonic minis later. Post College, I move back home and very little then on occasion I ran Palladium, WHFRP, played some MERP. Burned out as DM and that followed a long period with very little gaming. Mostly tri annual meetups with college buddies. Got Back in to D&D3e but was never comfortable running, though I ran stuff for my nephews. 4e came and I love it, running a campaign for the nephews (not as regular as I would like but I run at their schedule) and so far having a good time. Still meetup with the college buddies, mostly boardgames but the original college palladium campaign still continues even through 3 system changes (palladium, D&D 3.x and 4.0). I still get the odd wargame in. [/QUOTE]

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