Since early highschool, I was intrested in learning g more about DnD. A friend of my older brother showed me some old monster manuals and gave me a game piece (half elf hexblade). Even so, I never really did the research to play. Life went on, and after a little college and military I decided to buy dice, telling myself that if I got expensive, custom dice that I'd learn to play out of not wanting the investment to go to waste. And yet, I still didn't get it around. Me and some friends always talked about starting up, but nothing really came of it.
It was only after I got married and had some kids that I suddenly took it up. I bought the core books for 5e on a whim, using the same idea I had with the dice to justify it. I had to go to Mississippi for a training and ended up taking them with me in my back pack despite my realization. Turns out, three other guys (all with vastly more military experiance then me) also played, and once they brought it up I showed the books. We played a handful of sessions over about a month before I went home with my head burning with ideas and confidence.
I immediately got at my friends and family and started building my campaign off of ideas me and my brother's spun up years ago. We started playing around half a year ago with monthly sessions. Going from playing only a few games to DMing for 7 has been a challenge, but I've been told by my vet friends that I do well. The group has some trouble making it and we might get smaller as it goes, but I think the campaign will go on.
Having always loved videogames, novels and fantasy, I would've never guessed my first time playing would be with soldier during training. Never let anyone tell you a hobby makes you less of an adult/man/whatever.
I had my books on display in my dorm room, and a few folks from my floor were willing to play. I haven't seen any of them in 20ish years.
One of them had a girlfriend who joined the group. She ended up liking me better, so I married her.
We have four kids, the second of which plays, currently in her second campaign with us.
I was playing a campus-only MUD at midnight, one night in college. There was only one other lonely fellow on. We got to chatting and it turned out we were in the same dorm building, so he popped down to visit. He joined the above group. Years later, my wife and I set him up with her sister and they got married.
My brother-in-law was running a game, when my wife and I moved to town (a few years post-college). One of the guys from that group was actually a co-worker of mine and is still in my current group.
The last guy is a friend of the guy my brother-in-law introduced me too. I'm still very hazy about how they met, but he's part of the group.
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Since early highschool, I was intrested in learning g more about DnD. A friend of my older brother showed me some old monster manuals and gave me a game piece (half elf hexblade). Even so, I never really did the research to play. Life went on, and after a little college and military I decided to buy dice, telling myself that if I got expensive, custom dice that I'd learn to play out of not wanting the investment to go to waste. And yet, I still didn't get it around. Me and some friends always talked about starting up, but nothing really came of it.
It was only after I got married and had some kids that I suddenly took it up. I bought the core books for 5e on a whim, using the same idea I had with the dice to justify it. I had to go to Mississippi for a training and ended up taking them with me in my back pack despite my realization. Turns out, three other guys (all with vastly more military experiance then me) also played, and once they brought it up I showed the books. We played a handful of sessions over about a month before I went home with my head burning with ideas and confidence.
I immediately got at my friends and family and started building my campaign off of ideas me and my brother's spun up years ago. We started playing around half a year ago with monthly sessions. Going from playing only a few games to DMing for 7 has been a challenge, but I've been told by my vet friends that I do well. The group has some trouble making it and we might get smaller as it goes, but I think the campaign will go on.
Having always loved videogames, novels and fantasy, I would've never guessed my first time playing would be with soldier during training. Never let anyone tell you a hobby makes you less of an adult/man/whatever.
#OpenDnD. #DnDBegone
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I had my books on display in my dorm room, and a few folks from my floor were willing to play. I haven't seen any of them in 20ish years.
One of them had a girlfriend who joined the group. She ended up liking me better, so I married her.
We have four kids, the second of which plays, currently in her second campaign with us.
I was playing a campus-only MUD at midnight, one night in college. There was only one other lonely fellow on. We got to chatting and it turned out we were in the same dorm building, so he popped down to visit. He joined the above group. Years later, my wife and I set him up with her sister and they got married.
My brother-in-law was running a game, when my wife and I moved to town (a few years post-college). One of the guys from that group was actually a co-worker of mine and is still in my current group.
The last guy is a friend of the guy my brother-in-law introduced me too. I'm still very hazy about how they met, but he's part of the group.