First Encounter with D&D…ignored

I was about fourteen when I was first introduced to Dungeons and Dragons, though ‘introduced’ may not be the correct word to use, it was when I first found out that D&D was a thing, not when I started playing it.

At the time, I was an avid video gamer, scifi and fantasy nerd and was still in the early stages of my writing, a perfect concoction for a D&D gamer, right? Apparently no.

The situation arose as I was helping a friend of mine, and her family, move house. While cleaning out his bookshelves, her father turned to me and said ‘you write, yeah?’ 

I said yes and he promptly handed me a pile of books the size of my torso. I didn’t know the significance of this at the time, but it was a full set of D&D 3rd edition books. 

Afterwards, my friend suggested that her father could run a game for us if I wanted, and though she explained the game to me in detail, for some reason, being a video gamer, I could not wrap my head around it and eventually gave up on the idea. 

To this day, I think about what could have been had I started my GM journey on that day, but I am still eternally grateful to both of them for helping me on my writing journey.