How did you start gaming?

serleran · Post by **serleran** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:57 am

Except the pirate wenches, and the Ren Faire wenches. Then again, who'd want to walk away? I've seen pictures!

cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:13 am

Number its funny, nobody has mentioned that their parents hated the game.

Although it was never said, I think my parents did. I say that because they would never get it for me no matter how many times I asked, in the end, I had to borrow stuff from friends until I got enough scratch to buy my own.

I don't think it was a fundamentalist thing, or anything- they weren't like that. I think it just that it was so different from all the other stuff I did (My brothers and I were the neighborhood "jocks")

My brothers gave me shit about the "Satantic" bit- I just laughed and put a "death curse" on them- didn't work
What got me interested was the cover of the DM guide with the Efreet and bikini girl- one of the teachers confiscated it from a kid in class. I thought that the cover was cool and went over to the kids house to play later in the week.

Peace

Morty

Geleg · Post by **Geleg** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:06 am

My folks bought the game for me, thinking it was like an AH wargame. They didn't mind us playing it - 'good for the imagination' and all that. My mom finally expressed reservations when it became apparent that I was content to play D&D with the same 4 people to the exclusion of other forms of 'proper social activities' (ie., sports, dating, etc). But even then, she merely encouraged me to do other things - I was never forbidden to play. In fact, when I took a hiatus from gaming in late HS, it was at my instigation (our group fell apart and I found other things to do while reading game stuff on the side).

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Weezoh · Post by **Weezoh** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:47 pm

magehammer wrote:
In sixth grade, 1981 or so, I kept seeing these comic strip advertisements in my comic books advertising this game. I was drawn to the adventure the characters were having and wanted the next run of the ad to come out so i could know the end of the story. The art was cool. To this day, i don't know who the artist was. These characters fought green slime I remember and the warrior found a maigc sword to replace the one he had lost to the slime.

Now you've got me remembering these; I probably have some in my collection somewhere.

"Dimension Door!"

Chugosh · Post by **Chugosh** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:56 am

It must have been around 1978 when I first heard of D&D. My dad and I were backpacking in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest near Mt St Helens (this was a couple of years before it blew up). One night we were camping on the edge of some lake. The adjacent camp was a guy about 20 years old or so. He told a few interesting stories about a game he was playing, including how he and his friends had gone in on a miniature of a purple worm.

Maybe a half a year later, I was at a friend's house when he dug out the red box. We played a few rudimentary games that summer, and got better and better at it, soo inviting several others to join our game. Whhen Gamma World came out, I got my mom to buy it for me and ran some marvelous games.

AD&D followed, and then in High School, GURPS came out, and I bought it, and played for many years. Shadowrun was one of the most magnificent games, although I had to do some house ruling to get it to work with me and my friends.

I just ordered C&C, and am anxiously awaiting its arrival.

magehammer · Post by **magehammer** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:10 am

you will love it, Chugosh.

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