Another post about another role-playing milestone. I started playing DND 30 years ago this year.
I know that I started in 1979 because my grandmother Annabelle gave me my 1st ed. ADND books that year for my birthday. Whenever my grandmother gave a book as a present she signed and dated it.
Earlier that year in the summer, the kid from across the street (we were 11 at the time), asked me if I wanted to play a game called Dungeons and Dragons.
There were weird dice. I was a half-elf. I had a magic sword. In an underground cavern next to a lake I fought a terrible monster. I slew it and got a magic ring. It turned you invisible.
I remember walking across the street to go home that evening. A thousand fantastic thoughts raced through my head and one real-world concern, "How was I going to get to play again?". For the next four years of my life that would be my central preoccupation. If I wasn't playing DND I was trying to figure out how I would get to play again.
In the years since, that overwhelming urge to play has waxed and waned. I have gone many years without playing at all, while at other times been completely immersed again.
These days I am playing regularly and starting to share the game with my children. Despite all my years spent in fantasy land, that's something I never dreamed of.
2009-10-10
Changes
I made some changes to the blog today. While exploring various things I found that some old Blogger features had been improved. I decided to take advantage of the updates and streamline some things:
The Labels tag cloud is now just the default Labels widget with the cloud option turned on.
I added the search widget (actually did that a while ago).
I removed the Blogger Navbar since it's functionality was now redundant.
I changed the colors of the title area.
Overall I think it looks a little cleaner.
The Labels tag cloud is now just the default Labels widget with the cloud option turned on.
I added the search widget (actually did that a while ago).
I removed the Blogger Navbar since it's functionality was now redundant.
I changed the colors of the title area.
Overall I think it looks a little cleaner.
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