Intro to my background

Hi, this will be my first blog so to speak. Lately I have been reading a lot of blogs, mainly to due with Dungeons and Dragons* as this is my favorite and best liked RPG game of all time. I was first introduced to Dungeons & Dragons in the fall of 1982, my first year in college where a student on the floor told a group of us about a game called D&D.

It was then I learned to play this fun game involving imagination, dice rolling, heroism, evil villains and so on. My first RPG was also where I saw friends cheat, fudge dice rolls, members of the group had finally had enough and telling the Dm, we watched as he destroyed the so called hero who had committed evil deeds, pillaging villages, killing innocents. It was done in spectacular fashion over a number of gaming sessions as he reduced the so called hero to a pile of ash.

I say play on purpose here, because I still had not learned the difference between playing and role-playing yet, it was because of this RPG that I also started a collection of games from single to two player to 2-6 player games, varying game systems Marvel, D.C., Talisman, and then I moved onto getting 2nd edition AD&D (which is my favorite version of D&D), But, due to the economy lately I had to rid myself of a lot of those games letting them go on e-bay.

I absorbed the 2nd ed. sticking with this once I had left school and finding another player. He and I developed our own world, from there we formed a gaming group that played for a number of years, This was also where I learned to role-play the game, not just hack-slash taking turns Dm'ing and playing. As all good things go the group dissolved due to a variety of factors and now I find myself wanting to start another gaming group again, but it seems that no one is interested as of yet. So I have decided to write some of my thoughts down as have a variety of others.

*Any reference to D&D or AD&D name is licensed to Wizards of the Coast and is their property