Ath-kethin
Elder Thing
I'm gonna break your rules, a little bit.
As a kid, I loved books on mythology - tales of Greek and Norse gods and heroes, told to me by my stepfather then siphoned into my brain by copious reading, filled my lil' mind. Movies like Dragonslayer and Ladyhawke did it too, and all of that led me to the Dragonlance Chronicles.
Now, that didn't lead me directly into D&D - in fact, the first I ever heard of the game was when my friend's mother refused to let him read my Chronicles omnibus because "it was Dungeons & Dragons." That statement confused me greatly at the time because as far as I could tell that wasn't true; nowhere in my book did it say anything of the sort. But I didn't worry about it, and the Chronicles led me to the Legends and deep into a Weis & Hickman fandom - I still adore the Darksword books and my all time favorite W&H series, the Rose of the Prophet.
All of this reading, plus other mostly forgotten stuff like the Seven Altars of Dûsarra series by Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Myth-adventures of Aahz and Skeeve by Robert Aspirin, and the Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn, led me to the Earthdawn roleplaying game in 1993 or so. About a year after that I was introduced to my one true love, Dungeons & Dragons (I'd say don't tell my spouse, but I'm pretty sure it's no secret).
And I never looked back.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and Alexander's Prydain series and Louise Cooper's The Dark is Rising series.
As a kid, I loved books on mythology - tales of Greek and Norse gods and heroes, told to me by my stepfather then siphoned into my brain by copious reading, filled my lil' mind. Movies like Dragonslayer and Ladyhawke did it too, and all of that led me to the Dragonlance Chronicles.
Now, that didn't lead me directly into D&D - in fact, the first I ever heard of the game was when my friend's mother refused to let him read my Chronicles omnibus because "it was Dungeons & Dragons." That statement confused me greatly at the time because as far as I could tell that wasn't true; nowhere in my book did it say anything of the sort. But I didn't worry about it, and the Chronicles led me to the Legends and deep into a Weis & Hickman fandom - I still adore the Darksword books and my all time favorite W&H series, the Rose of the Prophet.
All of this reading, plus other mostly forgotten stuff like the Seven Altars of Dûsarra series by Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Myth-adventures of Aahz and Skeeve by Robert Aspirin, and the Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn, led me to the Earthdawn roleplaying game in 1993 or so. About a year after that I was introduced to my one true love, Dungeons & Dragons (I'd say don't tell my spouse, but I'm pretty sure it's no secret).
And I never looked back.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and Alexander's Prydain series and Louise Cooper's The Dark is Rising series.
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