Love’s Birth
posted in General |I was introduced to gaming a very long time ago. My friend Bill, a couple of years older than me, invited me to his place to try out a new game. I wanted to be liked by an older person, so I agreed (hey, what do you want, this was long ago in the days of Norman Rockwell) … the conversation went something like this:
Him: You’re walking through a forest, and a storm has ripped up an old tree. Underneath, there’s a tunnel leading down.
Me: Oh, ok, I go down the tunnel.
Him: You enter the cool tunnel, and go down the path a little ways. On the side of the tunnel is some green slime
Me: Eew. I run my fingers through it and smell it- does it smell like chemicals?
Him: You do what? (flips through book) Oh, you die.
Woo, wasn’t that exciting? I went home with a burning urge to play this weird game; and it fired up my imagination and played right into my love of reading. So, maybe you’ll understand if I go a little batshit over this announcement that Wizards of the Coast (who now own the DnD rights) are giving kits away to librarians … to run after-school games!
