Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:16 pm
my first memories was in my elementary school library, which had the 1ed monster manual which i looked at the pictures all the time.
I tried playing once with a couple friends, we were prolly 10 or so, had no dice no rules no nothing. Don't remember much about it, except it was fun and my guy got killed by a poop-monster...hey, we were 10.
then in junior high i read the Lord of the Rings book, way before the movies were in the making...it was 1993. I read the wizard of earthsea and loved thos ekinds of stories. Never really got into DD nor was exposed it it again. But in 1994 a buddy of mine had an accessory book, the monster myths or something like that, 2ed. I looked through it and was determined to begin playing and learning.
I went to the local bookstore and promptly spent like $100 on books...and it's history from there. At one point, in prolly 2001, I had almost every single DD rule book, 1st and 2nd edition. I bought most on ebay when it was first started. Today, i have only those books which i need; i sold the rest, they were doing anything but collecting dust.
I have spent thousands of hours on my world and playing. I have probably DMed over 20 different people and still have 2 players who play still to this day, although we play maybe once every 3 months, for about 12 hours. jsut don't have that kind of time anymore.
But the first time, that book in the library of my elementary school, started it all.
Oh yeah, if anyone remembers the hero quest game, i was really into that too before i played pen and paper dd.
Too bad libraries prolly don't carry books like that anymore...
I tried playing once with a couple friends, we were prolly 10 or so, had no dice no rules no nothing. Don't remember much about it, except it was fun and my guy got killed by a poop-monster...hey, we were 10.
then in junior high i read the Lord of the Rings book, way before the movies were in the making...it was 1993. I read the wizard of earthsea and loved thos ekinds of stories. Never really got into DD nor was exposed it it again. But in 1994 a buddy of mine had an accessory book, the monster myths or something like that, 2ed. I looked through it and was determined to begin playing and learning.
I went to the local bookstore and promptly spent like $100 on books...and it's history from there. At one point, in prolly 2001, I had almost every single DD rule book, 1st and 2nd edition. I bought most on ebay when it was first started. Today, i have only those books which i need; i sold the rest, they were doing anything but collecting dust.
I have spent thousands of hours on my world and playing. I have probably DMed over 20 different people and still have 2 players who play still to this day, although we play maybe once every 3 months, for about 12 hours. jsut don't have that kind of time anymore.
But the first time, that book in the library of my elementary school, started it all.
Oh yeah, if anyone remembers the hero quest game, i was really into that too before i played pen and paper dd.
Too bad libraries prolly don't carry books like that anymore...