D&D...Go Magic Missile!

[Barb Gordon]

Well I know we've got a good handful of D&D players here :D so I thought this question seemed in order: What got you started? Just how did you get into playing D&D and how long ago was it? A friend perhaps, comic/card shop, sought it out on your own. Whatever the story, let's hear it!

~Barb

[Bleu Unicorn]

D&D rocks. :D

Actually, I got started through some Wiccan friends of mine. They all played and had read some of the stories I've written and thought I'd make a great player. And thus it began. :) I remember that I was so nervous when I joined up with them 'cause they all had been playing for years and years. My one friend had been playing since she was eight 'cause her parents both played.

Needless to say I was intimidated.

But that was years ago -- and unfortunately almost that entire group of friends has dispersed around the country on me. But I always manage to find more people to play with.

<in the mood to play, but Dolly isn't really good at that stuff>

[Ajax]

My friend invited us over to his house I introduced us to D&D. We heard of it so we decided to play. Then we fell in love with it.

[Carnage]

Well, I'd wanted to play for quite some time. I'd play Magic: The Gathering at a nearby store and many people there would be playing D&D, so for about 4 years I got accquainted with D&D, but never actually played it. Then one of my buds at school brought up the subject, and we both wanted to start a campaign. So we got a group together. The first night we had like 8 people I think. But after that, only 3 people showed up on subsequent nights, so it was kinda dull. So then we changed our gaming hours a little bit to accomodate Barb, and then there were 4 of us, and it was great! *sniffle* I miss it too

Carnage

[Barb Gordon]

Carnage and my other buddy forced me into it...willingly,lol. They kept mentioning it out school all the time, and it sparked an interest in me. I loved to role play, act, have fun with friends, and fantasy related things in general. But I wasn't sure if my parents would let me do it, and at first, as Carnage said, the hours weren't going to work. So many times I thought about saying, oh nevermind. But my dad was okay with it, so was my mom...after Carnage and our other buddy totally talked about how awesome it was to her,lol. So one day at school, during class *cough*, we were in the uniform room and started putting together my character sheet. Hehe, the first time I was like...what the heck do I do with the dice? I couldn't get it for a bit there, till they explained everything. Then we had our first meeting with the four of us (another buddy of my buddy...) and it was such a blast! We had so much fun, yummy pizza, and random encounters....and awesome ways to earn some gold. It was such a great experience all around, especially when we could just totally burst out laughing about some D&D related thing at school and only we would understand it. But alas, we're all off at college *sobs*...so our campaign was left up in the air. Yet, we should be able to play some when we all are back for Christmas break, wooo!

~Barb

[JohnCrichton]

The cartoon.

From the get go I was taken. The sheer concept of children not taking a back seat to the adults were ripped from their world and to one that's completely and utterly unknown where they have to fight and stand on their own took my heart for life.

Not to mention alot of old films like Sword and the Sorceror, The Hobbit, and other fantasy movies kept my love for fantasy going.

Then I got in to the books, Greyhawk, the Immortal Drizzt and Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance.

Finally around High School I asked other fantasy fans if they'd played DnD and well.... the rest is a grand history of dice, pizza, Mountain Dew and a whoooolllllle lot of laughter!

:D

I hardely ever get to play it anymore, so yeah..... I miss it alot.

[Psilon]

I started with a couple of friends and my English teacher DMed.
It was amazing, our English teacher had like 15 years of experience.

Then my friends and I started to play by ourselves. We normally skipped class. Those times were the best part of my life in highschool.

(Though one my friends, truly roleplayed sometimes, and he was a paladin, we were pratically started a fight with every one. It was quite annoying sometimes)

[Barb Gordon]

Dude, your English teacher was into it as well? That's so awesome! Our English always seemed to be a crack, most days we wouldn't have anything of value to stick around for....so Carnage, our other friend, and I would always get passes to go "practice our instruments". And she would always readily let us go...though there was a time we did it too much and she got suspicious, dang it! Anyhoo, at first we would go down and practice, but then, because lunch was after English, we would just start playing D&D instead. Our friend literally lives right across from the school. So we would all race across the street, giggling and elated, and spend the next two hours playing D&D. Some of the best times of my senior year! We didnt really roleplaying that much, except for our friend, but we wanted him to do it. He so rocked when he would be his half orc or mage, he would have us laughing so hard and he never faltered himself or smiled.

~Barb

[Albright]

I cast Magic Missile! ... On the darkness!

[Anyone00]

Sorry for bringing back an somewhat old topic but I'm bit-by-bit playing through Icewind Dale II right now and I came across this book in the game that struck me as being hilarious:
____________________________________________________

How To Be An Adventurer

This ludicrously huge and heavy book - more a compilation of volumes in a single binding than anything else - claims to be an extensive manual on the "the fine art of adventuring." Its many chapters include:

- Henchmen: Loyal Companions or Seedy Pack-Mules?
- Making Your Kit Work for *You*
- 101 Uses for a 10' Pole
- Catapults: Yes, That's as Far as it Shoots
- Getting the Most Out of Your Party's Thief
- Today's Tinderbox - It's Not Just for Lighting Torches Anymore
- Dungeons to Tackle:
- Stinky Pieter's Halls o' Poorly Guarded Gold
- The Caves of Soundly Sleeping Monsters
- Archmage "Loose-Bowels" Wozley the Milksop's
Enchanted Item Warehouse
- The Wooden Citadel of Darmos the Old and Crippled
- Uncle Fralin's Tool Shed
- ...and more!
- Dungeons To Avoid Like the Crotch-Rot:
- The Iron Fortress of Blodax, Devourer of Souls
- Dominara the Erinyes' Nine-Layered Brothel of
Violent Emasculation (No Slacking... or Slating... allowed)
- The Crimson Hell-Pit of One Billion Miserable Deaths
- Uncle Fralin's Bedroom
- ...and more!
- Your Lantern and You
- Twelve Uses for Twelve Iron Spikes
- 99 Uses for That Little Hammer That Comes With Twelve
Iron Spikes
- Face It, You're Actually "Neutral Evil"
- The King's Lovely Daughter: Look But Don't Touch
- Don't Put Your Hand in That Dark Hole

...and over eighty more information-packed chapter covering all aspects of adventuring, from hoarding to spell-casting and bold heroics to arse-saving cowardice.

STATISTICS:

Special:
Gives the reader 10,000 Experience Points.
Disappears after use.
Weight: 8 lb.
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Now if I could just afford it's 100,000+ gold piece cost.

[Marklar]

I'm actually gonna start playing this weekend...maybe. A friend of mine bought a couple of books a few months ago, but we haven't had time to play it yet and we might not this weekend either, but we have vowed to start before the end of the year.

Wow, someone else here is actually from Utah. I thought I was the only one here from Utah...

[Samhaine]

Originally posted by Albright
I cast Magic Missile! ... On the darkness!
Bwahahaha! That's exactly what I thought of when I read the subject line!

I've been playing for almost 10 ( :eek: ) years now. Back in grade school my friend's grandmother bought him some beginner-level D&D stuff - it was like a campaign, but like a board game at the same time - which we flew through, and then started playing the ol' AD&D 2nd ed. I haven't played as much for the past two years, as there's not much around at my school and my DM is about 2 hours away.

But honestly, I can go as far back as board games like Hero Quest which led me directly into D&D. Good times...

[Barb Gordon]

Wow, two Utah people, cool! Carnage, you and he can bond in all the Utah'y goodness :) Anyhoo, when Carnage gets back to Cali for winter break we'll be hooking up with our friends again and playing, can't wait! We're creating new characters though, so I need to figure out what I want to be. I LOVE that online video concerning D&D. Our friend kept talking about it and I finally got to see it during a D&D session on his computer, I never laughed so hard. It was just the funniest thing ever, and what was great was saying lines from it at school, because people hadn't a clue what we were discussing!

"Am I getting drunk?"

~Barb