We were both fairly geeky already. She was the type of geek who went to Renaissance faires and listened to neo-Celtic songs about rat catchers. I was the type of geek who played video games set in Renaissance fair-like worlds. I would also multi-class into Rat-catcher.
Eventually I did join her in attending ye ren-faire, and she eventually read Lord of the Rings after me coaxing her. Next I got her into the City of Heroes MMORPG - AKA Digital Dolly Dress-up Time with Super-powers. (I don't mean that to be derogatory either. Playing super-hero dress up is awesome in that game.) That game got us into the whole MMO thing. After a while we joined the masses in world's largest MMO, World of Warcraft.
It was shortly after that well... this happened:
We had talked about maybe one day playing D&D just to see what it was like. I always figured we would either continue talking about it, but never doing it, or talk about it until one of our friends overheard us and taught us how to play.
One day out of the blue though I suddenly found myself being driven to Asgard Games in Houston. We ended up not getting player's handbook on that first trip. Instead we ended up buying some a 3rd edition reference book and the 30th Anniversary of D&D book from a Half-Price bookstore down the street.
We didn't really know what we were looking for, but we made our first step. The 30th Anniversary book is actually a pretty good read featuring all sorts of people including Sherman Alexie, Steven Colbert, and Vin Diesel, just to name a few. It definitely kept us thinking about the game. The best thing that came out of this was checking out the Asgard Games forums and finding a group there. I'll continue the story about that first session in another post. The next few posts will be about some newbie tips on joining the hobby.
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