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Telagaunt 03-13-06, 11:31 PM	Idk, I just wanted to share how I got turned onto D&D and FR, see if anyone else wanted to talk about why they spend so much time on these forums now too :D All started like 1999, 2000. Walk into my step brothers room, hey what are ya doing? And he's playing Baldur's Gate 1 :) And I just watched him and played till like 4 in the morning, and he told me about how when he was younger he and his friends played some D&D PnP and Warhammer. Sometime after, I'm in the bookstore, I see Return of the Archwizards Book I The Summoning. On pure chance I'm like, eh, this looks cool. After that it was all downhill. Bought the FRCS, then the PHB, Monster Manual, all the Drizzt books, Elminster, almost all the other series in FR. BGII, IWDII (never tried IWDI), I was even one of the fools to pick up Pool of Radiance lol. In about a year, novel-wise, I was pretty up to date I think. And I'm still loving FR, and with Eberron now too, I can follow a campaign from it's beginning :) Years ago, as a kid I loved reading, I mean, Goosebumps and Animorphs but still, you're a kid lol but after my first real novel, man. Things changed. D&D doesn't consume me lol but definitely one of my favorite hobbies and I'm glad I found it.
Lord Karsus 03-14-06, 01:27 AM	-Let's see here...It all started in the summer of 2002... -I was at my cousin's house, and we were playing on the internet. We created an account for a video game messageboard website, and needed a password. Stumped, my cousin reached into his older brother's bookshelf, which consisted of about 15-20 paperback novels. He happened to pull out Homeland. Thus, our password was Homeland. Later that night, I picked up Homeland, and skimmed the first chapter or two. From then on, I was hooked. I continued to hungrily devour all of the Drizzt novels. -I soon branched onto other things- the Cleric Quintet was my first non-Drizzt novel. Before I knew it, I could recite the 12 Princes of Shade (Even though one is still yet unnamed), debate the nuonces of the relationship between the Weave, the Shadow Weave, Spellfire, Shadowfire and Raw Magic, and even compiled my dictionary of Elven. I was spending nearly all of my hard earned money on novels, sourcebooks, video games and other things. -As to why I spend so much time on the forums? Good question...Obsession-Compulsion, perhaps. A Geas, even...
Link182 03-14-06, 02:44 AM	Jeez. It was 1982 or 83. Being 10 and really into mythology I was entranced by the cover of the 1E monster manual that had a collage of various monsters. I guess my mom had seen me looking at it because she bought me the Basic red box set shortly after. Some kid I was friends with at the time kind of taught me how to play and the rest is history. FR? Hmm, I think I was ill and down at my grandparents shore house. My mom got me a ton of D&D novels. The first one I read was the second in the first Moonshae trilogy. Found it interesting and then bought the 1E box grey box set when I saw the title that matched the novel I had read. Forgotten Realms. I was completely blown away by the Realms. Somehow it came together as a world unlike my view of Greyhawk. Been DMing in the Realms ever since. Thanks mom!
Ripe 03-14-06, 03:52 AM	It was 1989 or 1990 when I got old SSI's Pool of Radiance and Curse of Azure Bonds games for my Commodore 64. I was completelly blown by their non-linearity (remember it was 1990 when all games are extremly linear), story, gameplay and general feel (being a huge Tolkien fan that I am). Then I got myself the Blue 2nd edition box set and like they say, "the rest is history" - I've been playing in the Realms since then. Only after those two I get into novels.
Skeptic 03-14-06, 10:18 AM	First step : The SSI game "Gateway to savage frontier" and "Pool of Darkness". Second step : The Old Grey Box, then shortly after the 2nd edition campaign setting.
Thelandrach 03-14-06, 10:46 AM	Back in the late 80's, a friend of mine named Steve Perrin asked me to run a playtest of a module he had just written, called "Under Illefarn." It's an introductory module which sets up a town on the Sword Coast as the jumping-off point for campaigns, and I've been setting my campaigns there ever since, with each module following 10-15 years after the previous one, so the stories of the previous party of adventurers are part of the history of the town and the world, depending on how famous they became.
DreamStalker 03-14-06, 11:08 AM	Back in '89 my uncle and his friends let me play a game with them. I was 8 yet I still managed to figure out clever ways to assist the group and find ways past traps. Never tried combat however. I did not know at the time but it was FR and I greatly enjoyed playing with them. When he moved out, my uncle had left all of his books at my grandma's house. I was always into fantasy so I read through them all. Which included the Ol' Grey Box as well as a number of FR novels. From there it was a matter of me beginning to buy my own books and start my own games. Baldur's Gate helped cinch FR as my favorite setting after Dragonlance being my favorite for a for years previously. Since then, I have mostly ran FR games even above my own homebrew.
Gallameed 03-14-06, 11:10 AM	I always liked fantasy and was a regular tabletop wargamer and rpg'er. I used to love the Dragon Lance series of books and after I ran out of Dragon Lance novels (after the twins trilogy finished) I was looking for someting new to read, the nice guy at the local game shop said Try this, its quite good. while handing me a copy of Homeland by RA Salvatore. I read it and liked it, soon after that I checked out D&D buying all the 2nd edition core books, two weeks later 3rd edition came out... :D And now here I am with thousands of pounds spent on D&D sourcebooks, novels, minatures, magazines and a nice signed copy of the Icewind Dale hardback by Bob himself! ;)
loki87 03-14-06, 04:17 PM	I started playing D&D in 1986 with my best friend. We played the original red basic box and a couple of adventures (all owned by my friend). Finally, in 1987, I decided to buy my own stuff and start an adventure. The first thing I bought was the FRCS box set, shortly after it was released, and some rulebooks. Upon opening the box, I was immediately converted to a disciple of the Realms, and I have been ever since.
Telagaunt 03-14-06, 08:37 PM	Yeah, my only regret is I wish I found D&D/FR at an earlier age :)
dan1234 03-14-06, 10:42 PM	And now here I am with thousands of pounds spent on D&D sourcebooks, novels, minatures, magazines and a nice signed copy of the Icewind Dale hardback by Bob himself! Yeah, my cousin has the same thing. He lives in the same town as him, and he built his cabinets (that's what he does, he builds cabinets and stuff). And he gave him an autographed copy of his book, which coincidently at the time was one of the Ice Wind Dale books... Anyways back on topic, my first D&D game was in forgotten realms back in 1998-1999. It was 2nd editions (obviously), and I started playing with my brother and his friends. Yes they were 6 years older then me, but I remember I would stay up late on school nights just to hear what my brother had done in his night of D&D. Then he brought some books home, and I read trough them. And eventually I asked him if I could play. And one thing lead to another and we played. I played with them for at less 5 years, but I also started a group with my friends my age. So high school I just had to find out a way to balance 2 D&D groups during the weekend, with getting drunk every weekend. It was fun, I miss high school days, he he he... :cookie:
GothicDan 03-14-06, 10:58 PM	Online forum roleplaying.
Zevox 03-14-06, 11:23 PM	Let me see here... that whole process started when I first picked up Tolkien's The Hobbit back in late 2001/early 2002. By June of 2002 I was a Tolkien fanatic (still am ;) ) and had read all of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus started on the History of Middle-Earth series. Christmas 2002 rolls around and my parents have trouble figuring out what to get me, so among my gifts was a fantasy book they thought looked similar to the Tolkien books I had become caught up in - The Dark Elf Trilogy Collector's Edition by R.A. Salvatore. I got hooked on Salvatore's writings, and that got me introduced to the Realms, eventually getting me non-RAS novels to read, which got me further hooked in the setting. That would be how I came to love the Realms - the more novels I read, the more I learned about it, until I could recite almost as much FR trivia as I could Tolkien trivia. Ultimately sometime in October or Novemeber of 2004 my interest in the Realms (and knowledge that it was somehow related to D&D) caused me to pick up the D&D Basic Game at a local hobby shop. A few days later I had bought the Player's Handbook, D&D Minis starter set, and a couple of DDM boosters, which simultaneously led to me becoming addicted to D&D and DDM. And thats about how it went. A few days after that I sought a WotC site to get more info on the game, which led me here. Being as interested in the games and world as I was/am, I could hardly turn down the opportunity to join, and this place is too interesting to leave :) . Zevox
Old Sage 03-14-06, 11:23 PM	Darkwalker on Moonshae -- 1987 ;).
Krash 03-14-06, 11:39 PM	Ed's articles in DRAGON starting with the Ecology of the Rust Monster in #84 (first issue I ever purchased). -- George Krashos
Duke Lenethar 03-14-06, 11:49 PM	Baldur's Gate II became my all-time favorite video game, and the rest is history. Yeah, I'm the young video game guy :dancin:
Lord Karsus 03-15-06, 12:44 AM	Anyways back on topic, my first D&D game was in forgotten realms back in 1998-1999. It was 2nd editions (obviously), and I started playing with my brother and his friends. Yes they were 6 years older then me, but I remember I would stay up late on school nights just to hear what my brother had done in his night of D&D. Then he brought some books home, and I read trough them. And eventually I asked him if I could play. And one thing lead to another and we played. I played with them for at less 5 years, but I also started a group with my friends my age. -I wish I got into D&D/Forgotten Realms at an earlier age. I also wish I had an older brother/sister to share the same kinds of poignant moments with. Oh well...
Karl_Breistein 03-15-06, 05:28 AM	I bought Waterdeep, 2nd hand from my local library for 20p (~40c) as I was a fantasy nut, and into Warhammer Quest at the time. I never read the book until around 5 years later. Baldurs Gate came out and I saw it at a friends and was hooked, bought it soon after and now I have BGI/TotSC-BGII/ToB-IWDI/HoW-IWDII well basically every Realms game of the time. Recently I was quite chuffed to pick up Planescape Torment from ebay. Then decided to read the book, loved it and have read quite a few since. However despite owning them I'm not a Salvatore Fan ( :eek: ) though I do really like Cunningham and Greenwood! Sadly have never rolled a dice in anger (or peace) and am still unversed in the art of RPGing! If only there were more nerds up here!
Lord Karsus 03-15-06, 08:43 AM	Sadly have never rolled a dice in anger (or peace) and am still unversed in the art of RPGing! If only there were more nerds up here! -Why not cruise the WotC RPG Classified Boards, and see if anyone is around?
Alediran 03-15-06, 09:12 AM	Neverwinter Nights was mi first touch with the Realms, and like the rest, it was downhill after that.
White_Wizard 03-15-06, 10:37 AM	At a friend of mine's home. He had the FRCSHB and I took a look at it. Previously I played basic D&D. I was mesemerized by the drawing of Silverymoon in the dedicated section: that alley amidst trees and houses, all tied toghether summarized what is my idea of a fantasy world. I could smell adventure in that picture. Back at my home I had the FRCS in my hands and that's it: I was damned! Now I don't play any other setting. By the way I had already played in FR without knowing it playing the Eye of the Beholder computer game series back in my Amiga days ( :weep: ), but I discovered that only after viewing the FRCSHB that day, at my friend's home.
Gallameed 03-15-06, 01:13 PM	Sadly have never rolled a dice in anger (or peace) and am still unversed in the art of RPGing! If only there were more nerds up here! We tend to hide... :D If you come from "oop-north" in england, give me a shout? :) Theres quite a few groups up here! If you live in Scotland then I dont know but I know theres a decent sized gaming community in and around Glasgow.
charismatic_specter 03-15-06, 03:44 PM	When I first started playing 3rd edition had just come out. I'd never played before but I really wanted to and so I bought all the core books. Too bad I didn't know anyone who played! My girlfriend is a hair dresser and one of her clients was talking about playing D&D one day so she mentioned that I just bought the books but had no one to play with. He invited my to one of their sessions without even knowing me and I was quite happy to be going. As I sat in that room that night with about 7 other people I've never met until that night, I was introduced to the forgotten realms throught the city of Waterdeep. My character a wizard by the name of Fel Marx had joined the other characters as a "Blade of Waterdeep". In the campaign I learned that the "Blades" are the appointed protectors of Waterdeep and that it is our duty to ensure the safety of the city of splendors. My friend continued to run this campaign after an old friend of his who created it had passed on. Waterdeep and the realms still to this day are my favorite part of D&D. On a funny note however.....I showed up that night with all of my 3rd edition books only to find out they played 2nd edition. It took me nearly an entire year to convince them to try 3rd edition.
Zsych 03-16-06, 11:22 AM	Curse of the Azure bonds, somewhere around 89,90, and found it rather intriguing. Saw the novel, some years later(92-ish i think). Something about the Forgotten Realms label was calling to me :) Overall, the novel interested me enough to get me to start looking for others and.... Of course, it's been over a year now that i've actually played D&D with anyone, nobody around(at less than an hour's drive :)), though i don't really meet too many people these days, so i could be wrong. Heck... it's even been a long time since i played Neverwinter Nights fan-modules(some of those are good). Does anyone know any decent places to play online(i found one, but it was really inconvenient to get into... and the number of players and open games was severely limited)
Petrankov 03-16-06, 01:07 PM	Good thread idea. I started with the D&D Basic Set in 1988. Played in the Core World of Gazateer for a while. I started running Dragonlance and Ravenloft around 91 or 92. I got into the Realms when a friend of mine ran a game in 97. I started running them myself in 2002. Campaign is 4+ years and still going strong.
Julian_Grimm 03-16-06, 03:29 PM	I began playing AD&D 2e about 15 or 16 years ago. After I got my first job I bought books so I could run some games through a local baseball card shop. The shop expanded and began selling comics and game stuff as well. The owner had a copy of the FR greybox and from seeing this in comic ads I had to have it. A month later I ran a weekly FR game and have been hooked since.
Crust 03-16-06, 05:42 PM	The Crystal Shard.
Evil-fuma 03-17-06, 12:05 PM	I started with neverwinter nights, got obsessed with that, went on to play Icewindale, and then I began to branch off to the novels, and finally a year ago I stumbled across these forums and I was hooked.
Dynneroth 03-17-06, 02:47 PM	OK, I'm going to be the old guy here and tell my story. I was in Boy Scouts in 1978 and one of the guys brought the game to camp and we played... sort of. I don't remember rolling dice, but I think the DM did. We just told him what we wanted to do and he told us what happened. Jump ahead to college, my sophomore year, 1985. Some guys in the dorm got together and I started playing with them. One owned everything printed by TSR at the time. When the FRCS came out in 1987, we started playing that. Ever since then I've been addicted. I've dropped out of the scene occasionally, but I keep coming back. In the past 15 years, I've played pen-and-paper a dozen times or so, but in the past three years I've played Neverwinter Nights as often as I could. But even that I haven't played multiplayer, so I've completely missed out on the social aspect of the game for a long time. FR Novels I have read: Avatoar trilogy, Moonshae trilogy, Cleric Quintet, all Drizzt novels, and Year of the Rogue Dragons novels. I own all the AD&D, Dragonlance, and FR comics. Man, I didn't realize how big a geek I am. :rofl: I scored 92 on a nerd test found here (http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php?im). I'm sure that's not the highest score, but any takers?
GothicDan 03-17-06, 02:53 PM	I dunno. I think I'm pretty bad. I am 21 and have at least as much invested in the game, and I have far more lore in my head than any 21 year old should have. ;)
Lawless 03-17-06, 03:09 PM	Honestly I was already a D&D player, and had played Balders Gate when it first came out. I was at the library didn't feel like reading another Star Trek novel and came across the Halfling's Gem, which on the inner pages refered to Balder's Gate, so I read it and was hooked.
Evergreen_Aldaron 03-17-06, 06:51 PM	My best friend and I had been playing for several years, when he came home one day and said, "I picked up this grey box set...looks okay. Wanna' pop over and see what we have here?" So began the love affair with Faerun....one that is still going strong. Seems like yesterday.
Auburn 03-18-06, 12:30 AM	Let me open by saying that I've never actually played a DnD game. I've never so much as filled out a character sheet. I don't own any of the playing books. The closest I've ever came to an actual DnD game is walking by one in progress. So maybe you just want to skip my post now to avoid wasting time on someone who's never played a FR realm game saying that FR is his favorite CS. Now as to what made Forgotten Realms my favorite setting. A friend of mine back in school got some books and brought them to school First was just a generic sort of thing. Maybe whatever passed for the DM's handbook back then. The second was I think the Spelljammer CS. It was Spelljammer in any event. I borrowed them from him over the weekend, and I pored over these thigns reading them cover to cover. I'd read some children's fantasy novels back at the time, and this was the kind of stuff I was looking for that was missing in those books. Lots of action and adventure. Forgotten Realms has that more than the others in my opinion. I like the magic in FR. I don't want heroes who get done in by one hit and can't do anything spectacular. That's like real life. I don't have to worry about that in FR. Plus FR has a good bit of history and such to it. It's not epic and crazy deep like a series of fantasy novels, but it does provide a decent story and lots of action (something most fantasy novels take themselves too seriously to do). So I've played the video games, and they're fun. That helps too. Anyways I'd ike to play DnD someday, and I want to play in FR. I probably would have back in school, but my friend got involved in some bad stuff back then so we weren't friends much longer. Don't have the cash right now for the books or the time to play, but maybe soon.
Axegrrl 03-18-06, 03:51 PM	...I got into my first pseudo-FR game. I say "pseudo" 'cause the game wasn't set in FR, but we were using some of the FR books. I think my char. was a cleric of Mystra. I suspect I might've read a few of the FR books. We were doing a summer campaign, and I think the GM had been playing one of the FR computer games out at the time. Over the years, I've been in campaigns set in Greyhawk, Eberron, FR, various generic fantasy settings (homebrew or publishsed), a few pseudo-historical settings, and a couple of other homebrew settings. Of the lot of them, there are two I prefer by far above the rest: FR and my husband's current homebrew. I suspect part of the reason is those are the two with the longest history; my husband started developing his setting about the same time Ed started developing Faerun. I think another reason is the sheer breadth of campaign options that are available. There's so much backstory and so many published novels that every DM I've ever known could take a corner of Faerun, run games there, and not step on anyone else. And you know there's always something out there that's more powerful than you can handle, which gives FR a depth that just isn't there in many settings. Given a choice between playing any other published setting and FR, I'll take FR every time.
Lord Karsus 03-19-06, 12:51 AM	...a year ago I stumbled across these forums and I was hooked. -Yeah, many of us are ensnared by these boards. Try as we may, we just cannot leave. Rumors are even going around that Dan is locked a cage in the basement, and can't even escape if he wanted to... ;)
Aaron Highcolor 03-22-06, 10:51 AM	Some one else already said this, but my first experience was Niles' Darkwalker on Moonshaes Trilogy. I then got a copy of the Magister supplement. Then, after years of homebrew, I got into the old SSR goldbox Azure Bonds, Silver Swords, etc. games. I now have all the old gold box games (actually ALL the FR computer games) all the 2nd Ed FR supplements and all of the 3/3.5 Ed FR stuff.
Flecha 03-22-06, 11:23 AM	In 1988 or so I knew what D&D was yet hadn't played. I saw in a catalog the cover of the first FR boxed set (for 1st ed.!), and somehow I was caught by it. I couldn't afford it, so... In 1991, since somehow here in Spain it wasn't the most popular rpg by the time, I had played instead Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars and Traveller. Then I got my first PC, and another geek showed up by home bringing Eye of the Beholder. I *loved* that game, one of my best videogame experiences *ever*. Yet I couldn't play D&D for a few years, but slowly got into the FR, and all the way until now. Now I'm a FR geeky. Hey, I have two Drizzt minis (why? no, one wasn't enough for the gentleman!) and I always play Zhai in Demonstone... :rolleyes: By the way, I see there's people on it since the beginning and people who arrived in the last two years! So there are a wide range of ages posting in this forum. Great! ;)
dan1234 03-25-06, 02:40 AM	-I wish I got into D&D/Forgotten Realms at an earlier age. I also wish I had an older brother/sister to share the same kinds of poignant moments with. Oh well... Yeah, it was fun... I was 11 years old (or 12), I was a little shy at first with my brothers friends. But after 6 years I would play with them without my brother, so it was ok after. I don't play with them anymore, since most of them don't play anymore, and I live in a diffrent city... Man, I didn't realize how big a geek I am. I scored 92 on a nerd test found here. I'm sure that's not the highest score, but any takers? lol, yeah that is pretty high... I scored 17. But a lot of those questions don't seem like nerdy stuff, just science. If you are good in science dosen't mean your a nerd. . . :cookie:
Chancer 03-25-06, 12:15 PM	I was in Sixth grade and my friends were all clamouring about Phantasy Star for the Sega. I trotted on down to the video game store and started looking around when I couldn't fin the game I picked up a copy of Maddgoths Castle or something it was an undermoutain adventure. I read it cover to cover and copied the maps on graph paper in the art room. When my firends asked me what it was I said it was an adventure you play with D&D their next response was cool how do you play? "I have no idea but i want to find out" Two months later for a good grade card my dad bought me a copy of the introductory rules (Brown Box) and a copy of the 2 ed Forgotten realms Campaign setting, which I wanted because i was not sure which one I needed to actually play. First ever adventure was at my 12th b-day party with a fighter, a dwarf, an elf and a cleric in Waterdeep meeting up with Elminster and fighting off a zombie infestation in the upper halls of Undermountain. Been playing ever since.
cgarsmokr 03-25-06, 10:51 PM	I started playing D&D back in 84'. Got into Dragonlance when it first came out (novels and modules). \But my first foray into the Realms was the Moonshae trilogy by Doug Niles. I've been hooked ever since. I've since stopped playing D&D, at least for a while, but I still love reading the novels and accessories of the Forgotten Realms. I guess that's a testament to the power of this particular fantasy world.
Swiftblade 03-27-06, 10:47 AM	I was like 14 or 15, at a friend's house (happened to be a girl I was dating at the time, bad mistake), and her dad invited me to stay and play when they started pulling out the books. He handed me this sheet of paper, 4 pages total that said AD&D, I was hooked. He happened to have my character be a son of a noble's family from Waterdeep, and that is where I started my DnD experience, and at about the exact same time I was reading Homeland, Elminster the Making's of a Mage and Crystal Shard. Can't ever read one book at a time you know. Now I have close to 500 paperback novels, including Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance and a few Greyhawk with a smattering of Ravenloft and The Hobbit and LOTR's trilogy plus a bunch of other good famous author's for fantasy, plus way too many books for 3e. I remember my first time traveling for a Dnd Game, and now I feel like I am back there at 14 or 15, packing all of his books in boxes and packing them in the back of his truck to get to the group. Now I am doing the same thing. Yeesh, how do we get so carried away, but it is a blast.
Mecha_Pope 03-28-06, 10:40 AM	Years ago, I thought DnD was for pasty nerds. I was (and am) a history buff, and I spent most of my time practicing swordsmanship and weightlifting. Then, on Christmass in 2000, I recieved my first Drizzt novel. I bit the hook, and bought every Salvitor book soon after. I was introduced to baulder's gate, and loved that. The whole time I had no idea that I was playing DnD. Then, one day I read the instruction manuel. I realized I was a DorK! I have been playing scince 2003, and I'm now 18. I play in the Forgotten Realms, cause that's where it all started. After looking at other settings, none of them just clicked, felt as alive and real as Forgotten Realms. Greyhawk was too generic, and Errberon felt like it was trying too hard to be cool. FR just felt right.
jedorian 03-28-06, 10:45 AM	What brought me to FR?......... candy..... empty, tasty calories......
DM_Jeff 03-28-06, 01:48 PM	Unless I dreamed it all... In 1987, a month or two before the first FR boxed set was to be released, there was a mini-article toting it and a mini-poster map of the dales in an issue of Dragon magazine. I started my new campaign there that week, and just integrated the boxed set when it came out 2 months later. :) -DM Jeff
GungHo 03-28-06, 03:06 PM	1989 -- Curse of the Azure Bonds... the old SSI Gold Box game. After that, I found both D&D and the Forgotten Realms a few months before going into the Marines. Got with a group there and the rest is history.
ClobberinTime 03-28-06, 09:23 PM	The chicks, any world with Storm Silverhand in it is the one for me.... :)
Priest_of_Shaundakul 04-01-06, 05:11 AM	1997 - 1998 or so with FR novels, then Baldurs Gate really got me interested in the Realms.
Sidslick 04-03-06, 05:13 AM	I really got into it through a friend at college, when we were both 16 and studying for our A-levels. Him and a group of likeminded geeks (I use that term fondly) used to get together at lunchtimes to write up characters and adventures, then play them on saturdays at a friends house - and had been for four or five years before I arrived on the scene. Fifteen years later the core element of that honourable band of geeks still play together, plus a few others, despite various trips away courtesy of the British Army (war can be sooooo inspirational, and writing up adventures is a good pastime when its boring!). We were each other's best man at our weddings, I'm a godfather to his kids and still ***** about the same things whilst fondly remembering AD&D characters long since retired! Happy days....... :D
Aerthrin 04-03-06, 10:51 PM	Getting into D&D, for me, was simply the coverart on the books. I loved to draw at an early age and those covers tugged at me from the bookshelves. I split a cord of would with a maul once just to get one of those books, at age 8 or so. After that, it was anything I could do to get ahold of them and play at D&D. I think I truly started playing around age 7, some 22 years ago. I still play, with a steady group of friends now and then, thanks to the internet and some cunning appointment setting. FR - it was Ed Greenwood's books and work that drew me first, with Drizzt concreting the deal for me. With such a treasure of writing and interest it was easy to dive into the realm, now I sit waiting for new books as eager as a child on christmas morning. I've always held an interest in fantasy, starting with Tolkien and spreading across the board. My library has grown thick with names like Hobbs, Martin, Jordan, McCaffrey, Eddings, Byers, Athans and on and on... so the lure was originally the books, the stories, at least for this one. The question should be what has D&D done for you? I now (and very much so attributed to my interest and participation in D&D) paint, sculpt, sketch, write, wax poetic, explore theologies, sail through philosophical works and try my hand at every creative outlet that peaks my interest. It may be geekish or even tom-nerdery to some... but when I realize that the geeks and nerds are always the groundbreakers and trailblazers in our societies, it makes me think that it is time well spent. Would we have flight without DaVinci? Would there be robotics without Asimov? Would we have accomplished half of our successes without dreamers like Huxley or Tolkien to spark those interests? Hmm. D&D, building a better tomorrow... today. Heh. There's my couple. //Aer
MaskedOne 04-03-06, 11:35 PM	The novels caught my eye shortly before the release of 3.0. I had aquired some old 2E books around the same time. I tend to keep my focus on FR because the magic is impressive.
Silverpanther 04-04-06, 08:20 AM	Baldur's Gate :) play it, love it... play it again and again!!!
XdboyX 04-05-06, 03:35 PM	About 10 - 11 years ago i was playing various Tabletop wargames, couple years on started playing a few different RPG's, couple years after that was introduced to D&D/Birthright, in the middle of all this read a couple of FR Novels and played Baldurs Gate to death. After a brief Spell (5-6years) of not playing Roleplay, A few friends and I have decided to start up again, all of us running a Different game system, I have Decided to try my hand at FR.
Illeveun Bloodblaze 04-07-06, 01:06 AM	One day... I remember that my stepdad had bought a game, which turned out to be Baldurs Gate. I remember seeing him and and my oldest brother playing, and it looked so great. I remember wanting it to play it so much, and eventually did. I was hooked. I remember that soon after I stumbled upon a rack in my library that were full of paperbacks of Forgotten Realms. Being such a voracious reader, i cleaned it out within a month. i read a lot of the old novels, but I kinda still can't keep up a newer discussion :blush: But it hooked me into D&D and well, here I am now
JaiaDrottsingr 04-07-06, 03:40 PM	Well, it was the winter of 2000, my only aunt just died, my older brother was trying to cheer me up and I made a drow. The Jaia prototype didn't (and his remake doesn't either) know his last name. I never really played as enthusiasticly as I do now, until I read Homeland. Drizzt (how do you say that name, anyway?) was the ideal drow, and yet the only real thing in common Jaia has with him is eye color. Unlike Drizzt, Jaia's eyes are a dull silver with white pupils. They are always white, well, at least until ...battle turned them so dark that if the sky went out, you could still see them. Quote from Fen's Oddity, currently in the making. Well, it was RAS' book that did it, so, there you have it, long and lethal.
Mordakay of Thay 04-09-06, 04:16 PM	What brought me to FR..I was playing Icewind Dale(yeah,i played it before bg or bg2),I really liked the game,finished it,then played BG2 before BG1 (lol : p).The fact that I live in Romania kept me from getting any D&D rulebooks whatsoever until 2003.I finaly got me some books,from Germany.Got me the core rulebooks and the FRCS ofc, been craving for them from back when i was playing BG for the first time =(.Considering that I was the only guy in town who was in this stuff,and trust me,i've checked,I got my friends into it 2.They played the FR pc games and liked them,so they imediatly liked pen and paper 2.Now i'm DMing our first campaign in the Realms,in the High Forest region. PS: I took that geek test.So,if i know what Mn stands for in the Periodic Table,im a geek?Thats bull : P.
giddion_of_mulhorand 04-09-06, 05:24 PM	Im really old school ,I started when I was 7 with a clreic. Took me 5 hours to make him ,and I played him only 20 min. before he got killed in a graveyard. Almost 20 years later Im still playing ,well sort of Im the Dungon Master now ,and Ive followed the game to its latest version. Ive got about 6 players right now ,running around in the Underdark. They did fairy well on the surfuce in Traillsend and have adventured throughout Darmara. Ive allowed psionics because Im running an Aberrations settings mostly ,but what would any game be without dragons. Thus far the latest news of the party is of the defeat of the Beholder Sekarvu though I think the greatest roleplay was done defeating the Gnome wiz named Ilirik. To save his skin he cast Otilukes resillient sphere on himself. While in the sphere the party psion used mind thrust and stuned him for 8 rounds. there the party was unable to hurt Ilirik even though he was stunned he was safe from even the best spells of those prepared by the party wizard ,and those knowen by the sorcerer. The party thought ,and ask what the gnome had on his person of coarse I said his spellbook a smile came over the psion as he used TK-thrust ,and used the spellbook as a missile inside the sphere and made a coup-de-grace on the stunned wizard. the rolls were made and sure enough the wizard was dead.
Yaeri 04-13-06, 04:02 AM	In two words: Baldur's gate. (Or does 's count as a third word :confused: ) I had played a crappy rpg when I was mid through high school. None of the players took it seriously, so dm'ing them was not fun to do. I've played baldur's gate 1 and Baldur's gate 2. Within my Baldur's gate 2 box there was the Baldur's gate 2 novel and a tryout mission of D&D. After several years (I was already at college), years after I had stopped playing the crappy rpg, I went to the store and bought the 3.0 player's handbook, basically because I wanted to play more Baldur's gate. It had a random dungeon generator and some monsters and items in it. So the poor could play games back then with just the PHB. We played two games before I started buying the other books.
Lord Karsus 04-13-06, 10:49 AM	In two words: Baldur's gate. (Or does 's count as a third word :confused: ) -How do you get three words for Baldur's Gate? Oh, the apostrophy! No, it's still two words...
Telagaunt 04-15-06, 03:41 AM	I saw an article on GameSpot stating BGII:SoA was still one of the most important RPG's ever to be created :D