Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
We’ve talked a bit about D&D here in the past and I wanted to come back to it for a moment. Couldn’t find the thread I was thinking of, so I’m starting a new one.
I played the game starting probably in the very early 1980s when I was in grade school. I don’t remember how old I was, but I remember enjoying it a lot. We started with the basic set, then the Expert set, and eventually the first edition of the AD&D series, the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual. My older brother and I played with a group of neighborhood kids who were a few years older than us, but we were welcomed into it.
Later, my brother and I would play a bit on our own, sometimes bringing in some other friends to join us. I was away from it for a few years but then played a bit again in High School, at the very end of the 1980s.
I haven't played since, but often found myself nostalgic for it. I felt like I would likely never play again, I was just busy with other things in life, I didn’t have connections with anyone who was playing, my wife grew up in the group of kids who thought D&D was for stupid nerds, and since I never played the role of Dungeon Master, I found the idea of starting my own group rather daunting.
So now my wife and I have been watching Stranger Things on Netflix, the show is set in the mid 1980s which is exactly the era we grew up in, and the characters play a lot of D&D, suddenly the interest is back up. Our son is eight years old, we are reading The Lord of the Rings together and he has seen the movies many times. So I finally bought the current edition Starter set, taught myself to be DM, and last night we had our first session of play. We had a lot of fun, didn’t accomplish much and it will take a while before we become good at it and I become a skilled DM, but it was great.
Just wanted to share.
I played the game starting probably in the very early 1980s when I was in grade school. I don’t remember how old I was, but I remember enjoying it a lot. We started with the basic set, then the Expert set, and eventually the first edition of the AD&D series, the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual. My older brother and I played with a group of neighborhood kids who were a few years older than us, but we were welcomed into it.
Later, my brother and I would play a bit on our own, sometimes bringing in some other friends to join us. I was away from it for a few years but then played a bit again in High School, at the very end of the 1980s.
I haven't played since, but often found myself nostalgic for it. I felt like I would likely never play again, I was just busy with other things in life, I didn’t have connections with anyone who was playing, my wife grew up in the group of kids who thought D&D was for stupid nerds, and since I never played the role of Dungeon Master, I found the idea of starting my own group rather daunting.
So now my wife and I have been watching Stranger Things on Netflix, the show is set in the mid 1980s which is exactly the era we grew up in, and the characters play a lot of D&D, suddenly the interest is back up. Our son is eight years old, we are reading The Lord of the Rings together and he has seen the movies many times. So I finally bought the current edition Starter set, taught myself to be DM, and last night we had our first session of play. We had a lot of fun, didn’t accomplish much and it will take a while before we become good at it and I become a skilled DM, but it was great.
Just wanted to share.