Doing It Over Again – Day 27 D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop

This is day 27 of the of d20 Dark Ages’ D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge! Based off of the challenge’s prompts I will be sharing personal stories about my history with Dungeons & Dragons every day in February. You can hop to another participating blog by using the links at the end of the article or click here to see my previous answers.

Day 27: If you had to do it all over again would you do anything differently when you first started gaming?

Looking back to the very first day’s answer, it’s tempting to say that I should have continued gaming in high school instead of being so badly intimidated that I ran in fear.

I occasionally feel like I missed out by not gaming as a kid. It’s a seductive idea: having a pool of worry free players where the most difficulty would come from arguing over who buys the Mountain Dew that week with their money from a part time job. But I know that there wasn’t an audience for it back then and that I wasn’t emotionally ready for much of anything let alone an imagination game. I have the feeling that forcing it in high school would have given me the same spiteful scars and cynical callouses assumed by the more negative blog hop questions.

No, I’m happy that I was too dumb to like D&D in highschool. That allowed me to get fully invested as an adult, a honeymoon period where I could really appreciate this hobby of ours. As I said yesterday, the friends I made in my first serious group are extremely important to me, a formative experience that I don’t think could have happened if I hadn’t have been a blank slate.

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