I don't know when I first heard about D&D. Back at cubs scout day camp (summer of 81 or 82), the counselors carried the books to play on break; they were tome of infinite mystery to me, but of course they weren't going to invite a 9-yr-old to play. About that same time "Mazes and Monsters" was broadcast and I watched the gaming scene and said "I want to do that!", which was rather antithetical to the intent. We moved, and I bought books and other RPGs (Star Frontiers, Marvel Superheroes) and even wrote my own, but I was still the only boy in Bloomsbury, NJ who had a yen to dungeoncrawl. I caught glimpses of games, from a karate instructor, from another camp counselor, but actually playing D&D seemed as far away as Middle-Earth or Narnia. In '86 we moved to a small town in the Hyperborean reaches of New York state, and there I finally found other people who felt the pull of polyhedral dice. But I loved D&D for years before I ever got to play.
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Date: 2008-03-07 03:16 am (UTC)In '86 we moved to a small town in the Hyperborean reaches of New York state, and there I finally found other people who felt the pull of polyhedral dice. But I loved D&D for years before I ever got to play.