I asked my parents for the boxed set of Dungeons and Dragons for my 11th birthday, after reading an article in Dynamite! magazine, and I've been hooked ever since. I drifted away from AD&D around the time that 2nd Edition came out, and I spent a lot of time with various Palladium Books systems before coming back home. Now, I write, travel, do a bit of computer game programming, and play in my friend's Roll20 campaign as well.