I think my favourite memory is how spontaneous we were. It was my first campaign, and I would run sessions at the drop of a hat over video call, even if we had only thirty minutes. These weren’t even always plot driven. I know how people feel about shopping sessions, but at the time, I loved sessions that took place entirely in markets or even the PCs home. Those characters were so alive because the characters were constantly roleplaying even the most mundane tasks, so they learned so much about who their characters were. It was something that couldn’t be forced, and it’s something that I’ve never quite seen again. 

Crazy Weasel Gaming

I played AD&D with my older brothers one summer during middle school. I have vivid memories of sitting on the floor in their room, drawing maps and rolling dice (and looking up THACO) as Queen’s Night at the Opera played over and over on the stereo. Queen will always be D&D music to me. 

Mama Strange

My first memory of playing dnd is stuck with me from how cool it was. I was living with a bunch of roommates and we all wanted to play. The guy who owned some 3e books, and the only one of us who had played before, would DM. He set aside time for each of us to do a solo character building and game intro session. I had a character idea and printed a sheet. I set down at the table, and he said “Greetings fellow deity. Shall we create a hero?”
We spent some time before the first group session drawing a grid on the off-white kitchen table with permanent marker to use as a map, went shopping to the local game store together to buy miniatures, and painted them together.

Sir James

My first game was Star Frontiers, and we got it before I could read, so I just looked at the pictures, and played with the cardboard punch-outs that came with the boxed set. In our back yard there was a little mount of pale earth in our backyard. I used to pretend I was a Dralasite (sort of a goo alien), and become that mound of earth when danger arrived. The memory of someone else’s first game was when I ran D&D for my younger cousin. He made a thief in AD&D. I told him he encountered a goblin, and without being threatened in anyway, my cousin said, “I want to stab him!” The violence of a ten year old boy is very honest and simple. We didn’t get to play for long, but we has fun. 

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