When last you joined us I had ventured out to acquire the knowledge I’d need to attend Dungeons & Dragons Encounters. Foiled by a hostile local game store experience, I trudged home, head hung low.
Logging on to the D&D community site, I checked for another close location running Encounters. Victory! Metropolis Comics and Toys across from Metrotown Mall was my next destination.
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With my solo D&D Red Box Adventure well underway, I was eager to get back in the saddle at a table. Sure, it’d been literally the last millennium when I’d last rolled a D20, but it couldn’t be that hard, could it?
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Waking up in the middle of the night isn’t terribly uncommon; my latest iPhone gadget is a motion sensor that wears like a watch and records your nightly movements–it confirms that I wake up nearly ten times per night.
This particular time, however, was a bit different. The dream that I had roused from was so utterly vivid; a bright memory of darkened hallways, sooty torches, arched stonework, vast piles of treasure, and might battles. A sound echoed in my mind, the tumbling of an unmistakable item booming as it fell. In my mind’s eye I could see… a twenty sided die. The image was crisp and clear, and it carried with it an unshakeable urge. After 15 years I wanted to play D&D again.
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