You heard my intro to D&D but my intro to AD&D was some guy who lived in his aunt's basement and she was a friend of my grandmother. My grandmother went on about how I was fixated on Dungeons and Dragons and she said her nephew is into that and they suggested I meet him. This guy drove a hatchback, had metal framed glasses, a Member's Only jacket and said "dwarf" in the most pronounced Brooklyn accent that you could possibly pronounce "dwarf". He said that he had the biggest miniature dragon ever made for D&D and like a fool I went in there to see it. Just to let you know what I looked like, I was 13 years old and the kind of cute boy who got too much attention from girls all the time until I grunged out in 1983 growing my hair and beard to look like a barbarian, or at least thats what I thought!
He actually had the big dragon advertised in DRAGON and he even said I could borrow his PLAYERS HANDBOOK for as long as I wanted but after that it got a little awkward. So I left never even blinked about it but somebody stole the PLAYERS HANDBOOK and when I went to ask for him to tell him he had moved and something was funny about it that nobody wanted to say at that time. A few years later when I was asking around about him everybody was saying he was arrested for molesting boys. Now thats a hell of a start. Well, at least I dodged that "bullet". Yikes. See? It pays off to have a violently abusive Dad who randomly attacks you for no reason! He probably thought I was going to kill HIM!
