My First Dungeons & Dragons Book

I was never a serious player, and in fact probably only played a few times with my friends as a child and then a few games in college. For me, it was never about the game itself but rather the ideas in contained within those innocuous boxes. It was an entire world, ready to be explored and conquered and it provided fertile soil for my pre-adolescent imagination and led me on many wondrous flights of fancy.

Of course, in the current age of computer games that can provide online role-playing with hordes of like-minded gamers, the dice game that started it all might seem just a bit quaint and cliché, but for me it represents a nostalgiac touchstone of my childhood and I think that maybe quaint and cliché aren’t such bad memories.