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(Note: I am chiefly writing this to make all of the D&D geeks on the board squirm with jealousy)
On Friday I was carting a bunch of my friends from out-of-state to The Source, our locally owned comic shop. I had completely forgotten that Friday was the 30-year-anniversary of D&D. When I realized they were celebrating, I went over to get cake.
As I was getting cake and root beer, I was pulled over by one of the employees and asked if I played D&D. I said, yes, sometimes and he told me that the guy standing behind the table next to me was Dave Arneson, one of the people who wrote the original D&D game. I shook his hand and talked to him for a short time. He seemed like a genuinely very nice man. I told him how I played and he said I should stay for the rules talk, and I said I might even though I knew I couldn't.
The crowning glory moment was when I took my roommate, an ice-skater who is very much not a geek on the outside, to meet him. She was so excited. She played D&D for five years straight in middle school and high school and this was the first time she ever met anyone involved. We talked for a short time about school, apparently he's a professor... And then we bid our goodbyes.
It wasn't the first time I'd met someone famous in the geek world, but it was refreshing to be surprised like that. I wish I'd have had the time to stay and watch him speak, but I had to run and spend more money... Posts: 4816 | Registered: Apr 2003
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It wasn't the first time I'd met someone famous in the geek world, but it was refreshing to be surprised like that. I wish I'd have had the time to stay and watch him speak, but I had to run and spend more money... 
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