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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5636045" data-attributes="member: 54707">There was a kid I knew in school. Middle School.  We weren't really friends, we were actually rivals. Academic and athletic  rivals. We were on rival football and debate teams. Sometimes we'd play Chess  against each other. But one day he brought Chainmail to school and asked me if I  had ever heard of it. He and I had both played Wargames as far back as 6th  grade. And he knew I might like Chainmail.   We were rivals (as much as is possible in Middle  school) but we had some of the same interests. Wargames, history, World War II,  the Medieval era, etc. He showed the game to me (with the supplements) and we  would discuss it at lunch. It was different than any Wargame I had ever seen.  And we both liked the theory and construction of the game.   He and I had both read Tolkien and were interested  in the game from that angle as well. We  discussed Chainmail for some number of weeks as a Wargame. Right before summer,  If I remember correctly, he brought in some information on  Blackmoor.   That summer I spent at my great aunt's house (I  was the first son of the first son of the first son and so got to spend a lot of  summers with whomever in the family I wished) and she took me to a store where  she bought me the boxed set of Dungeons and Dragons. I had no-one to play it  with there though so I just studied it and thought about it.   I played that with friends later in the summer and  for about a year, including many forays into the Wizard's castle that was  included in the back of the booklet. I introduced most all of my friends and the  people I'd actually play with to the game.   My freshman year in High school I ordered the  AD&D books which became the standard Role Play Game books for most of my  childhood.   I never played D&D or Blackmoor or Chainmail,  as either RPGs or Wargames, with the guy who actually introduced me to it. We  played Ogre and GEV a couple of times (the Steve Jackson games) in biology class  or on the bus going to a football game, but never the games he introduced me to.  We just discussed those games.   But oddly, after those initial discussions, we  never spoke of them again.</blockquote>

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