sethani
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Post by sethani on Dec 24, 2014 12:27:32 GMT
Woo, I made second tie for second!
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Post by Dr Archeville on Dec 24, 2014 15:06:31 GMT
Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shapeshifting- wait, no. My first exposure to gaming came at a most ironic time & place. In 1988 my mother took my 11-year-old self to the annual book sale at a local Catholic school (one I'd attended the previous year), and I saw tucked into one of the piles a book filled with monsters. It was a b&w book, with non-glossy pages, and I initially thought it some type of coloring book. I convinced my mom to get it for me, she did, and I happily colored in many of the pictures with some colored pencils. As I went through the book more and re-read the entries, I noticed stats and numbers -- this was some sort of game book! Yes, I had in fact picked up an AD&D 1st Ed. Monster Manual (the one with the kneeling succubus). Back then there wasn't much of an internet to speak of, and no way for me to access it if there was, so it wasn't until several months later, when I was getting some more art supplies at a Hungate's in a nearby mall, that I saw an RPG section (mostly D&D, and some Rifts books). This was around the time AD&D 2nd Ed. was coming out, so I was able to get in on the ground floor with that... or would have, if I'd been able to find anyone to play with. My aunt/godmother and brother played some with me, but neither was really into it, so I had to satisfy myself with monthly issues of Dragon magazine (my first issue was no.188, Dec 1992). It wasn't until I got into high school that I found others to play with, though they were more into Rifts than D&D. I didn't regularly start playing D&D until I met a group at the NCSU Library (where I was working as a student worker at the time, in 2000), and found a group playing in one of the study rooms. They were wrapping up an AD&D 2nd Ed game, and were discussing the latest rumors about D&D 3E, which was due out in a few weeks; I started chatting with them, and joined the group. (In college I'd also dabbled some in Old!World of Darkness and GURPS, and after finding that D&D group also did some HERO System and Mutants & Masterminds.) Why was it ironic for me to find my first D&D book in a Catholic school in 1988? Well, this was during the height of the D&D Controversies/Moral Panic. And more specifically for me, a North Carolina resident, it was around the time of the Lieth Von Stein murder. Condensed version: in 1988 three NCSU students plotted to murder the mother and stepfather of one of the students, so he'd get a $2 million inheritance. The mother survived, but the stepfather did not. The stepson had had a history of antagonistic behavior against his stepfather for years, as well as a history of alcohol and drug abuse, but authorities found a map of his stepfather's home in their gaming supplies, so obviously it was D&D that drove them to murder. The story was adapted into two books, Blood Games and Cruel Doubt, and both had made-for-tv movies made based on them in 1992, Honor Thy Mother and Cruel Doubt.
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Post by someoneornot on Dec 25, 2014 1:42:31 GMT
I started playing about a year and a half ago, when I started college. I'd heard about D&D from a variety of friends, and I'd always wanted to try it, but never really had the opportunity to.
So when I found out my college had a gaming club, I joined instantly, played a game of 3.5 and have been hooked ever since.
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Post by stlaughter on Dec 26, 2014 5:11:39 GMT
I started playing D&D very late in my life- I was already in college before I was exposed to D&D in any direct way. My mother was a big fan of fantasy novels, so I was already well-versed in D&D tropes and settings by then, but I had never known anyone who had ever played, had never even seen a copy of one. In college, I met a few friends who played, introduced by an ex-Navy sailor on the Ronald Reagan, who had left to go to college to become a geologist. Good friend. I miss him. It has... become something of an addiction, now. I love storytelling. Many say they were born in the wrong time, and I sympathize; while I'm not totally bereft of comfort in these modern ages, I think it's a shame we have no room for modern storytellers in these times. I like talking. I love storytelling. Tabletop gaming is the rare way in which that urge may be satisfied. It's a shame, too- I know only a few who play in my area, and I am already their DM. I'd like to see some new people.
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Post by kasa on Dec 29, 2014 23:40:25 GMT
My first game was about a decade ago, back in grade 9-10 of high-school, at the time growing up I've only heard vague hints of D&D from media and cartoons as the ultimate of geeky activities. I was attending my tech class when a girl was looking for people to play with her, and I just had to try it! XD She started us off by helping us create our characters and then finished the skills off herself and we went through a few tutorial exercises together with her before starting off with the burning plague campaign. To this day when ever I'm teaching people to play D&D I always start off with that adventure to honor her and what she showed us! XD
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Post by stlaughter on Dec 30, 2014 4:23:22 GMT
That's incredibly cool! I like that you run them through that first one. What happens to us first- our pasts- they are incredibly important to us. Honoring her like that is... well, awesome, in the original sense of the word. It is good of you.
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annajiejie
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Post by annajiejie on Dec 31, 2014 0:24:46 GMT
I was only familiar with D&D by name until my freshman year of college. I bought a short story anthology called Geektastic. I got it for the stories about cosplay and anime, but there were lots of other things in it too (LARPing, D&D, Rocky Horror, etc). A few months after that one of my new friends (who would later become my roommate and bestest friend ever) told me another freshman she knew was gonna host a 4e campaign and asked if I wanted in. I was pretty much going in blind, but I fell in love with the game straight away.
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