I, like most role playing geeks, got my start with role playing games using Dungeons and Dragons. Before I ever played I used to as a kid walk into hobby and toy stores and wonder, "How do these games work?" I remember looking at a Ral Partha minutes set box and looking at the artwork and thinking "Do you go to these worlds, how is that possible?". My father caught my interest and bought me a Dungeons and Dragons red box basic set. I was fascinated and set out to read the rules. Mind you at this point in life I had only ever read maybe one novel of any length and the rules were a bit much for me. I loved the artwork and managed on my own to role up a few player characters, but with no one to play with I shelved the book for a couple of months and didn't think more about it. Then my friend Dale and his brother Kyle came over one night while our parents did their monthly bridge game. Dale had figured out the rules enough to play and had his brother ...