I'm curious how you first learned about #D&D or other #TTRPGs? Did a friend drag you to a game? Were you watching as other people played and thought "this looks fun," then go out and buy dice and a PHB? Reply or Quote-Post with your experience!
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Oh the "love to look at & read, but never play" scenario! 😆
I had a Murder Mystery game (the kind that was meant to be paired with a dinner party) as a kid that I always wanted to play.
As an adult, I bought Vampire the Masquerade 2e and fell in love with reading it. Still haven't played it! 🙃
An older cousin of mine introduced me to the game on a rainy afternoon while on vacation In 1978 to Myrtle Beach SC with our families. Later in the week we found a couple of local kids to play with as well...
A friend got really into Critical Role early in their first campaign and asked a guy she had a crush on to DM a game for us. We played at my apartment. Everyone brought $5 and I’d either order pizza or make dinner and we’d play every Friday til the friendship fell apart and I started my own group.
That sounds like it was great while it lasted!
I think TTRPGs are such a great way to maintain friendships. An excuse to get together every week and not feel pressured to keep up conversations because you can mostly focus on the game.
How is it going? I saw a mention of a possible Vecna game in your future?
A heads up that the WotC adventure is pretty barebones and might take a lot of extra work to adjust for your players.
I'm running it on Mondays and am planning quite a few changes.
Spent years looking to play dnd and finally a friend hosted a game for me & others. Since then I’ve just joined when friends have games going lol I’ve played a hand full of TTRPGS but dnd is my default and favorite
My brother got the Red Box when it first came out and we figured out the game. Shortly after the satanic panic came along and my mother threw the game out. I didn't find the game again until I was an adult in college and it was in 3.0e. I played some then and also 3.5. Now I'm a staunch 5e player.
I'm lucky the Satanic Panic mostly missed me. Although I didn't have any of my own books or dice when I played in my teens, so that could be the reason 🤔
My mum had banned Ouija boards as satanic when I was younger, so I might have been hiding my D&D from her and just forget now😆
I love that it's the shine that drew you in! I loved the old AD&D2e splat books that invoked leather-bound vibes. And also because I could obsess even more over characters I would never play 😅
It was actually in my High School when I learned about Pathfinder 1e and then I started looking at other TTRPGs kind of recently didn’t buy my own stuff till 2014-2016.
I was 12 when I was first introduced to the game by my Dad. Unfortunately I wasn’t super into it at the time, but after doing some self reflection I decided to pick up the books again as a DM (12 years later lol). It’s been about 6 months since we started our campaign, and so far it has been amazing
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I had a Murder Mystery game (the kind that was meant to be paired with a dinner party) as a kid that I always wanted to play.
As an adult, I bought Vampire the Masquerade 2e and fell in love with reading it. Still haven't played it! 🙃
Been playing ever since
I think TTRPGs are such a great way to maintain friendships. An excuse to get together every week and not feel pressured to keep up conversations because you can mostly focus on the game.
A heads up that the WotC adventure is pretty barebones and might take a lot of extra work to adjust for your players.
I'm running it on Mondays and am planning quite a few changes.
No idea what was going on. Made up and played our own game during breaks at school the next day.
Continued in the same vein ever since.
My mum had banned Ouija boards as satanic when I was younger, so I might have been hiding my D&D from her and just forget now😆