I was born in 1970 and grew up loving superheroes, fantasy, sci-fi, monsters, computers, video games, and Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve always gravitated to the nerd sub-culture. In thinking about my past hobbies, I thought it would be fun to review my brief history of with TTRPGs that lasted 4-5 years during my teenage era and left a huge imprint on me. It was 1982 and my cousin Russell brought over a blue box which mixed fantasy storytelling with stats, which was a combination that blew my mind. The box came with some books and dice I’d never seen before. The book looked like this: Me and my buddy Jason were directed to rollup characters and we played X1: Isle of Dread. We didn’t play it very well as we really didn’t know what we were doing but boy did we have fun. We didn’t roleplay, we didn’t have a character story arc or campaign plot. It player like a 1980s Fantasy A-Team where we moved on from problem to problem and we solved the problems by killing everything. We were wandering murdering hobos. The adventures we played in our first campaign was X1, B4, X2, and X4 and then […]