Introducing a Friend – Day 2 D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop

This is day 2 of the 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 2: Who was the first person that you introduced to D&D? Which edition? Their first character?

It took me two years of playing twice-weekly D&D games to feel confident enough to organize my own role-playing group. We started out with Savage Worlds (which is still my pet system) but eventually my players asked about “that D&D thing”. Incredibly none of the group them had ever played D&D before. Having three excited and completely-baggage free players was the perfect opportunity to bust out the day’s newest edition: 4th Edition.

The game consisted of three complete D&D newbies and two veteran players. It was also my first time running a full blown D&D campaign. The three newbies immediately latched onto what made D&D fun: Mackenzie played a shifter paladin with a dark and mysterious nature, Charles played a human rogue made deal all of the damages, and Andrew was a dragonborn warlord as adept at chewing scenery as he was healing your wounds. All of them were special snowflakes and readily made the most of everything 4E had to offer.

I ran that game for a year and a half, completed an entire story from start to finish, and progressed through all of 4E’s heroic tier. It was the kind of game that you still talk about years later. Newbies and veterans alike, the game is so fondly remembered because of the chemistry we created together.

Shit, I don’t know what I was thinking by having my first long term D&D game be so successful. I should have set the bar lower.

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