A couple years ago I made some friends in my German class in HS, and they were always talking about all the stupid stuff they always did in their campaigns. So one day I was bored in theatre and I decided to read through the basic rules and I fell in love with the game from a technical standpoint. I joined one of my friends campaigns, which only ran for 3 sessions total, and I fell in love with the game completely. Unfortunately, no one I knew had the follow through to run/play a campaign for more than 3 sessions so I wasn’t able to play until I started posting here on the forums.
One day I had a Barnes and Noble gift card, which was something I probably got for my birthday. Before I even went to the store I thought “Hey, what if I bought D&D?”
At this time I had no idea what D&D was, I had never really seen it in any form of media (no Stranger Things had entered my life), and I didn’t know anyone who played it. All I knew was that it involved fantasy. So I went to the store and I spoke to the first salesperson I saw “Where is your Dungeons and Dragons?” He directed me, and I was immediately overwhelmed. I asked how he recommended starting, and he told me there were three ways: the Starter Set, the Essentials Kit, and the three book set. After he explained them, I grabbed the Essentials Kit and left (I paid, of course).
I started going through the kit with a fine-toothed comb, along with a friend who was equally interested. We got the gist of it, but I wouldn’t say that we fully grasped how it all worked. Pretty quickly, and by that I mean after 2 weeks of pretending we got it all, a friend of ours came over and saw what we were working on. It started a dialogue and we found out that he played! He went ahead and started teaching us, along with two other friends, one of whom brought another friend, and then our new GM brought in another person who had played before! Thus our group was born!
I write a ton. Mostly short stories, poetry, and comics. I want to work up to a novel some day. I also research folklore and culture a lot. I use what I learn in my writings and record a large amount of it. I'd like to compile it all into a sort of encyclopedia of mythology and fairy tales some day.
I also juggle a lot. I can only do three balls for now, but I know a lot of tricks and can do juggling pins and incorporate bouncing balls as well. I want to perform on the streets sometime for fun.
I come from a long line of soccer coaches and while I am not as fanatic about it as the rest of my family, I do enjoy a good game of soccer. I also run cross country because that is an easy one to practice. You can run practically anywhere.
I'm also a part of an informal fight club. Only one of us really knows any martial arts, and he teaches us boxing and jujitsu. Who would have thought that beating up your friends is such a great experience that everybody enjoys?
I also love spending time outdoors, hiking, backpacking, swimming, mountain biking, etc.
Some friends of mine got me into playing a CCG called Spellfire (that’s dating myself there), which was essentially based on D&D. Then another friend got me into M:tG, and then that transitioned into actual D&D when we met another person who we became close friends with.
I had a friend who really liked Pathfinder, which he called D&D for some reason and he worked really hard to get me interested. For some odd reason I wasn't really intrigued even though I had been playing a game that was very similar to Dnd but it lacked any and all mechanics. He did get me to play a few sessions and I really enjoyed it, but we didn't have time to play a lot. Eventually my Dad borrowed Phandelver from another friend and DMed it for us.
Friend was running a game for mostly new players, knew I was into nerdy kinds of stuff, asked if I wanted to join. I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy it but we did LMoP and I had a blast.
QOTD: What do you do for a living work, and do you like it?
I am currently unemployed but I am hoping to get a job putting up some dry wall sometime soon.
I do volunteer at a nonprofit food pantry/afterschool program/refugee housing and help program a lot. I am there about as much as some of the interns and employees but I am just a volunteer. I like it a lot.
QOTD: What do you do for a living work, and do you like it?
I am currently unemployed but I am hoping to get a job putting up some dry wall sometime soon.
I do volunteer at a nonprofit food pantry/afterschool program/refugee housing and help program a lot. I am there about as much as some of the interns and employees but I am just a volunteer. I like it a lot.
Wait... why do you want to put up dry wall instead of do the thing that you already do so much?
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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The new kid made a first friend who taught it at a kitchen table.
My first dungeon, incidentally, was the example one in the 1e DMG.
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I had a good friend in elementary school that had D&D paraphernalia lying around his house all the time. I would ask him about it, then we would run outside and ride bikes or go exploring until the street lights came on. The images of the box set and the monster manual - I loved the monster pics and they stayed in my head.
About a year later my cousin asked if I wanted to play a game called Dungeons and Dragons. We played Keep on the Borderlands and got eaten by the owlbear. SO MUCH FUN!
My parents got me the red box that year for Christmas.
QOTD: What do you do for a living work, and do you like it?
I am currently unemployed but I am hoping to get a job putting up some dry wall sometime soon.
I do volunteer at a nonprofit food pantry/afterschool program/refugee housing and help program a lot. I am there about as much as some of the interns and employees but I am just a volunteer. I like it a lot.
Wait... why do you want to put up dry wall instead of do the thing that you already do so much?
Because that is just volunteer work and I need to get paid.
QOTD: What do you do for a living work, and do you like it?
I am currently unemployed but I am hoping to get a job putting up some dry wall sometime soon.
I do volunteer at a nonprofit food pantry/afterschool program/refugee housing and help program a lot. I am there about as much as some of the interns and employees but I am just a volunteer. I like it a lot.
Wait... why do you want to put up dry wall instead of do the thing that you already do so much?
Because that is just volunteer work and I need to get paid.
But you said that you're there as much as some of the interns and employees. Why not become one?
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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QOTD: What do you do for a living work, and do you like it?
I am currently unemployed but I am hoping to get a job putting up some dry wall sometime soon.
I do volunteer at a nonprofit food pantry/afterschool program/refugee housing and help program a lot. I am there about as much as some of the interns and employees but I am just a volunteer. I like it a lot.
Wait... why do you want to put up dry wall instead of do the thing that you already do so much?
Because that is just volunteer work and I need to get paid.
But you said that you're there as much as some of the interns and employees. Why not become one?
They aren't able to pay me and I don't have official training. Also the only job openings are full time jobs and I can only do part time right now.
A friend of mine and his group were playing one night. I came over unannounced and they invited me to sit in for a player who was absent that night. One of the enemies cast dominate person on the character I was playing and told me to turn on the party. That was all I needed. I went out and bought the 3E Core Rulebooks the next day.
Side Note: Can you believe the 3E rulebooks were only $19.99 back then? I got them just before they raised the price to $29.99.
A friend of mine and his group were playing one night. I came over unannounced and they invited me to sit in for a player who was absent that night. One of the enemies cast dominate person on the character I was playing and told me to turn on the party. That was all I needed. I went out and bought the 3E Core Rulebooks the next day.
Side Note: Can you believe the 3E rulebooks were only $19.99 back then? I got them just before they raised the price to $29.99.
I can believe it… What I can’t believe are the WotC price hikes! I probably shouldn’t be surprised now…
I got a ton of 3e rule books super cheap from some guy who had no idea of their value a few months ago.
A friend of mine and his group were playing one night. I came over unannounced and they invited me to sit in for a player who was absent that night. One of the enemies cast dominate person on the character I was playing and told me to turn on the party. That was all I needed. I went out and bought the 3E Core Rulebooks the next day.
Side Note: Can you believe the 3E rulebooks were only $19.99 back then? I got them just before they raised the price to $29.99.
oh, I can!
I learned in 1979. In 1980, got a christmas present of the three books and the DM screen. I had been buying dice and modules already, with what little I could afford (and modules were half that cost), and borrowing books. I hadn't really told my mother much about it (I was at that difficult age, lol) but she saw nonetheless.
It was a very tough, difficult time for us, financially. I was aware of how tight money was. My expectations that year for christmas had been maybe a new kitchen tool. Seriously. Single mom doing full time college (no job), two kids, we did not have much at all (no cable, even).
When you realize that the IAP (inflation adjusted price) of a $19.99 book in November of 1980 to September of this year is $72.00, it drives home just how much of a sacrifice my mom made for me to start playing D&D. I would be a decade older before I realized it. Right then, though, it was the best christmas gift I had received in years -- and it stays with me as much s the year she bought me all the stuff to make little 8mm movies nd the year she bought an entire encyclopedia britannica to feed the brain of her eldest kid.
(I made about 100 moves, and I read the entire Encyclopedia over the summer of 1977)
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A couple years ago I made some friends in my German class in HS, and they were always talking about all the stupid stuff they always did in their campaigns. So one day I was bored in theatre and I decided to read through the basic rules and I fell in love with the game from a technical standpoint. I joined one of my friends campaigns, which only ran for 3 sessions total, and I fell in love with the game completely. Unfortunately, no one I knew had the follow through to run/play a campaign for more than 3 sessions so I wasn’t able to play until I started posting here on the forums.
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HERE.One day I had a Barnes and Noble gift card, which was something I probably got for my birthday. Before I even went to the store I thought “Hey, what if I bought D&D?”
At this time I had no idea what D&D was, I had never really seen it in any form of media (no Stranger Things had entered my life), and I didn’t know anyone who played it. All I knew was that it involved fantasy. So I went to the store and I spoke to the first salesperson I saw “Where is your Dungeons and Dragons?” He directed me, and I was immediately overwhelmed. I asked how he recommended starting, and he told me there were three ways: the Starter Set, the Essentials Kit, and the three book set. After he explained them, I grabbed the Essentials Kit and left (I paid, of course).
I started going through the kit with a fine-toothed comb, along with a friend who was equally interested. We got the gist of it, but I wouldn’t say that we fully grasped how it all worked. Pretty quickly, and by that I mean after 2 weeks of pretending we got it all, a friend of ours came over and saw what we were working on. It started a dialogue and we found out that he played! He went ahead and started teaching us, along with two other friends, one of whom brought another friend, and then our new GM brought in another person who had played before! Thus our group was born!
I write a ton. Mostly short stories, poetry, and comics. I want to work up to a novel some day. I also research folklore and culture a lot. I use what I learn in my writings and record a large amount of it. I'd like to compile it all into a sort of encyclopedia of mythology and fairy tales some day.
I also juggle a lot. I can only do three balls for now, but I know a lot of tricks and can do juggling pins and incorporate bouncing balls as well. I want to perform on the streets sometime for fun.
I come from a long line of soccer coaches and while I am not as fanatic about it as the rest of my family, I do enjoy a good game of soccer. I also run cross country because that is an easy one to practice. You can run practically anywhere.
I'm also a part of an informal fight club. Only one of us really knows any martial arts, and he teaches us boxing and jujitsu. Who would have thought that beating up your friends is such a great experience that everybody enjoys?
I also love spending time outdoors, hiking, backpacking, swimming, mountain biking, etc.
Some friends of mine got me into playing a CCG called Spellfire (that’s dating myself there), which was essentially based on D&D. Then another friend got me into M:tG, and then that transitioned into actual D&D when we met another person who we became close friends with.
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A friend invited me to a heavily-homebrewed 3.5e game, I think. It might have been a d20 Modern game. Not sure which one came first.
I had a friend who really liked Pathfinder, which he called D&D for some reason and he worked really hard to get me interested. For some odd reason I wasn't really intrigued even though I had been playing a game that was very similar to Dnd but it lacked any and all mechanics. He did get me to play a few sessions and I really enjoyed it, but we didn't have time to play a lot. Eventually my Dad borrowed Phandelver from another friend and DMed it for us.
Friend was running a game for mostly new players, knew I was into nerdy kinds of stuff, asked if I wanted to join. I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy it but we did LMoP and I had a blast.
I am currently unemployed but I am hoping to get a job putting up some dry wall sometime soon.
I do volunteer at a nonprofit food pantry/afterschool program/refugee housing and help program a lot. I am there about as much as some of the interns and employees but I am just a volunteer. I like it a lot.
Wait... why do you want to put up dry wall instead of do the thing that you already do so much?
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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The new kid made a first friend who taught it at a kitchen table.
My first dungeon, incidentally, was the example one in the 1e DMG.
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That is a flowy question.
I had a good friend in elementary school that had D&D paraphernalia lying around his house all the time. I would ask him about it, then we would run outside and ride bikes or go exploring until the street lights came on. The images of the box set and the monster manual - I loved the monster pics and they stayed in my head.
About a year later my cousin asked if I wanted to play a game called Dungeons and Dragons. We played Keep on the Borderlands and got eaten by the owlbear. SO MUCH FUN!
My parents got me the red box that year for Christmas.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
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"real life is a super high CR."
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"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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Because that is just volunteer work and I need to get paid.
But you said that you're there as much as some of the interns and employees. Why not become one?
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I work at an elementary school and I love it!
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
They aren't able to pay me and I don't have official training. Also the only job openings are full time jobs and I can only do part time right now.
A friend of mine and his group were playing one night. I came over unannounced and they invited me to sit in for a player who was absent that night. One of the enemies cast dominate person on the character I was playing and told me to turn on the party. That was all I needed. I went out and bought the 3E Core Rulebooks the next day.
Side Note: Can you believe the 3E rulebooks were only $19.99 back then? I got them just before they raised the price to $29.99.
I can believe it… What I can’t believe are the WotC price hikes! I probably shouldn’t be surprised now…
I got a ton of 3e rule books super cheap from some guy who had no idea of their value a few months ago.
oh, I can!
I learned in 1979. In 1980, got a christmas present of the three books and the DM screen. I had been buying dice and modules already, with what little I could afford (and modules were half that cost), and borrowing books. I hadn't really told my mother much about it (I was at that difficult age, lol) but she saw nonetheless.
It was a very tough, difficult time for us, financially. I was aware of how tight money was. My expectations that year for christmas had been maybe a new kitchen tool. Seriously. Single mom doing full time college (no job), two kids, we did not have much at all (no cable, even).
When you realize that the IAP (inflation adjusted price) of a $19.99 book in November of 1980 to September of this year is $72.00, it drives home just how much of a sacrifice my mom made for me to start playing D&D. I would be a decade older before I realized it. Right then, though, it was the best christmas gift I had received in years -- and it stays with me as much s the year she bought me all the stuff to make little 8mm movies nd the year she bought an entire encyclopedia britannica to feed the brain of her eldest kid.
(I made about 100 moves, and I read the entire Encyclopedia over the summer of 1977)
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds