My friends and I had all heard of D&D at one point or another because we're all very nerdy. We never seriously considered playing it, however, until I found out that I was moving to a different state than them all. One of my friends had an interest in DMing a campaign and we all started our research from there. I Skype in to play while the rest of the players all meet at the DMs house. We just all created our characters and our first official play session is at the end of this week and I am so excited!
Yeah, my high school girlfriend's parents made her quit our game after just one session because they thought DnD was satanic. This was in the early 2000s, too! You'd think people would have learned by then.
The thing that killed me at the time was that it was specifically D&D that she was scared of. He kept his other RPG books, like Rifts (which we also played a lot of) which is every bit as filled with demons and magic and so forth as D&D, out in the open. Just pure ignorance.
I had a good friend back when I was in the Army who first introduced me to D&D. I've always been a super fantasy nerd, but never had other nerd friends to do nerd things with. He booted up a one on one little 3 shot so I could get a feel for the game and that was it. Now that I've been out of the Army for a few years, I've made fellow nerd friends and introduced them all to D&D. We've been playing our own homebrew campaign for the last year and a half.
Way back in 1978 or 79, an older (all of one year, but in elementary school that seemed like a big difference) friend invited me to play a new game he had somehow acquired. I loved it so much that after just playing once I talked my grandmother into buying it for me for my birthday. I couldn’t remember what it was called, but I could describe it to her over the phone: ”You roll up a character and then play them like you're in a book.” From that description she was able to go into a store somewhere (probably a bookstore or a Toys R Us, since there were not many game-focused stores around at the time) and find the D&D Basic Set.
Which turned out to be the wrong game, although I had read through most of the rule book before figuring that out.
We had actually been playing Gamma World! But I spent the weekend creating characters for D&D, loved that even more and had soon talked all my other friends into playing it too.
Over the years I tried dozens (maybe hundreds) of other game systems, most of which no longer exist, with various groups but continued to come back to D&D. After a short break in my early twenties, I started playing with some friends from college and I continued to play D&D (well, mostly DM, rarely actually playing a character) all the way up through late into 3.5 before my regular group drifted apart and I went off to play other RPGs with other people.
Now one of those college friends has me excited to play again, so I’m back to D&D for 5e. Just when I thought I was out…
I do still have that old 1978 Basic Set, and the first edition Gamma World rules that I bought off my older friend when he lost interest, along with the onions we used to wear on our belts because that was the style back then, in case anyone is curious.
I wanted to play DnD for a very long time, but didn't really have enough friends. The Adventure Zone was the last push to get me to just force my non nerdy friends to try it out because I was eager
The first time? Pretty sure it was 1981, playing AD&D with friends. I read a fair amount of fantasy and sci-fi as a youngster, and my "crew" were smart, creative, theatrical, and socially awkward. We were nerds.
I remember getting the MMII, the Fiend Folio, and even Oriental Adventures when they came out. And Dragon mag.
We "strayed" into Marvel's Superhero RPG, but played it as "small time criminals," because that's more fun.
I got into 5e a few months ago because of my coworker. So glad he encouraged me to do it!
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My friends and I had all heard of D&D at one point or another because we're all very nerdy. We never seriously considered playing it, however, until I found out that I was moving to a different state than them all. One of my friends had an interest in DMing a campaign and we all started our research from there. I Skype in to play while the rest of the players all meet at the DMs house. We just all created our characters and our first official play session is at the end of this week and I am so excited!
The thing that killed me at the time was that it was specifically D&D that she was scared of. He kept his other RPG books, like Rifts (which we also played a lot of) which is every bit as filled with demons and magic and so forth as D&D, out in the open. Just pure ignorance.
I had a good friend back when I was in the Army who first introduced me to D&D. I've always been a super fantasy nerd, but never had other nerd friends to do nerd things with. He booted up a one on one little 3 shot so I could get a feel for the game and that was it. Now that I've been out of the Army for a few years, I've made fellow nerd friends and introduced them all to D&D. We've been playing our own homebrew campaign for the last year and a half.
It’s all my grandmother’s fault.
Way back in 1978 or 79, an older (all of one year, but in elementary school that seemed like a big difference) friend invited me to play a new game he had somehow acquired. I loved it so much that after just playing once I talked my grandmother into buying it for me for my birthday. I couldn’t remember what it was called, but I could describe it to her over the phone: ”You roll up a character and then play them like you're in a book.” From that description she was able to go into a store somewhere (probably a bookstore or a Toys R Us, since there were not many game-focused stores around at the time) and find the D&D Basic Set.
Which turned out to be the wrong game, although I had read through most of the rule book before figuring that out.
We had actually been playing Gamma World! But I spent the weekend creating characters for D&D, loved that even more and had soon talked all my other friends into playing it too.
Over the years I tried dozens (maybe hundreds) of other game systems, most of which no longer exist, with various groups but continued to come back to D&D. After a short break in my early twenties, I started playing with some friends from college and I continued to play D&D (well, mostly DM, rarely actually playing a character) all the way up through late into 3.5 before my regular group drifted apart and I went off to play other RPGs with other people.
Now one of those college friends has me excited to play again, so I’m back to D&D for 5e. Just when I thought I was out…
I do still have that old 1978 Basic Set, and the first edition Gamma World rules that I bought off my older friend when he lost interest, along with the onions we used to wear on our belts because that was the style back then, in case anyone is curious.
I wanted to play DnD for a very long time, but didn't really have enough friends. The Adventure Zone was the last push to get me to just force my non nerdy friends to try it out because I was eager
been going for half a year!
The first time? Pretty sure it was 1981, playing AD&D with friends. I read a fair amount of fantasy and sci-fi as a youngster, and my "crew" were smart, creative, theatrical, and socially awkward. We were nerds.
I remember getting the MMII, the Fiend Folio, and even Oriental Adventures when they came out. And Dragon mag.
We "strayed" into Marvel's Superhero RPG, but played it as "small time criminals," because that's more fun.
I got into 5e a few months ago because of my coworker. So glad he encouraged me to do it!