Gygax
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008I have memories of reading the Dungeon Master’s Guide cover to cover up north one summer around fourth or fifth grade, no small feat for me at the time. Small print on a mass of pages, a few big words and many foreign concepts. I remember thinking it was fascinating, and it fueled many hours of imagination playing with Lego sets.
It seems cheesy to say but I really think AD&D (coupled with my BBS hobby at the time) really motivated me to learn all kinds of skills and technology at a really young age. I learned the ins and outs of WordStar writing campaigns to send my friends on. I created character sheets, cheat sheets, reference pages, and all kinds of other forms using early versions of Excel and WordPerfect. I had a database of characters stored in Ability. I created simple scripts in Telix to help make it possible to run a game in a multi-node BBS chat room.
I really don’t have much more to say that has not been more eloquently said already.