Having four siblings, we've learned that best use of our time is to do play cooperative games instead of taking turns watching each other play single player games, since our parents would limit the amount of time we could use whatever console we had at the time; Better for us all to play one game for 2 hours than 30 minutes of an individual game each. All of this led me to become really fond of cooperative games.
Also, even before I learned about D&D, I would play little make-believe games with my siblings, often as a way to make chores more fun, and not just in your typical cardboard starship scenario.
So when D&D was introduced to us, an actual cooperative game of make-believe, I immediately saw it's potential to do exactly what I have been doing, but with actual rules that all of us could follow. And turned out to be more than that.
I'd say Zee Bashew knows exactly how to put it in his video:
My first experience playing a tabletop RPG, namely D&D, is also probably my fondest memory with my father. I remember that one night, he sat down with my 9 year old self and my younger siblings, and he ran the original red box adventure for us.
Taken from the internet, not my actual red box that was lost to time
While I admittedly don't remember my first character's name, I do remember our hilarious encounter against a Rust Monster, our exciting fights against skeletons, goblins, and giant rats, and our epic encounter against the evil Wizard Bargle before all of that even happened.
20 years later, I remember Aleena's death as clearly as last week.
RPGs allow me to have similar experiences as that first time. And all of it at the comfort of a table, with some good friends.
I to was born out of the red box and the ton of memories born out of D&D could fill tomes... and what is better is that we keep making new memories.
ReplyDeleteI get a real kick every time I introduce someone to the game and I can tell they can feel the same excitement I did on my first game.
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