Your gaming history
A post in another thread by Dark Mistress prompted me to pose this question: What is your personal history of gaming? How long have you been gaming? How did you get started? What different games have...
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How I got into gaming has already been posted so i won't repeat that again. I have never been out of gaming in that I choose not to play. There have been short periods of times for a couple of months...
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I must have started in about '88 or so. I might have been 11 or 12, and it was my first or second year of Scout camp. One of the older boys (older being all of 15) had a single 6-sided die and was a...
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Lets see...it all started with my big brother, me wanting to do the same stuff he was doing...he read Omni, and played D&D, Avalon Hill Bookcase games and Traveller and D&D. So I started...
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Gaming for me came out of a progression of interests and hobbies. I love playing games. I had all the usual board games as a kid, but especially loved the ones with a military bent (Stratego, Risk,...
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My older brothers and friends would play on the back porch when I was really young, and one (Aaron) even ran an adventure with me and another brother in his bedroom (I'd say I was 4-5 then, early...
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I started playing with the Holmes and Moldvay basic sets around 80-81' when I was 9 or 10 years old. My introduction to the game: I was lured into the game after hearing some friends in the schoolyard...
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Take a young man on Cape Cod in 1981. A young geek to be specific, who walked back from the library with his nose in a book a couple times a week. A teen whose mother made him go out to get fresh air,...
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I had the usual background interests - fantasy literature (Tolkien, Lewis, Cooper, Alexander, etc), love of plastic kit models, a fascination with history (esp. military history) which led to Avalon...
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The short version is this: I sold greeting cards in the 3rd grade to earn points for stuff from a catalog. One of the things you could get was a D&D Basic Box, which looked cool, so I got one....
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