Over the intervening 37years, that Greyhawk has grown and changed so much with so many players and so many adventures. So we started with a very non-canon, lore-light understanding of the world and just added to it when the stories we were telling asked for more. And, we were just kids in the beginning – we didn’t know the lore, and though we had access to the Gazeteer, we played very fast and loose with the world. I say “a version” because it’s the living world I played in and later ran games in that dates back to 1985. The pandemic made that impossible, of course, but we’ll be back together again this year in September.ĭN: For the most part, when I’m playing D&D, I play in a version of Greyhawk. RELATED: Shipwrecked Comedy Opens Up About Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story and Bringing the Story to LifeĮvery year my core High School gaming group try to get together for a long weekend somewhere in the country and play for two or three days straight like we did as kids. Jason was my first Dungeon Master and is still a dear friend. He was killed deep in the Underdark a year or so later – 1e was not kind to multiclass characters. Since I was joining their campaign in-progress (they were 10 th level), I made a Drow Fighter/Mage/Thief, Lexall Flaggstaeff. I was beside myself flipping through their books. I went over to his house that weekend, and we made my first character. I knew of the game from the cartoon and a couple of action figures I’d found at the Ben Franklin store (Melf & Warduke), and of course from Satanic Panic hysteria, but I’d never even seen the books, much less played. It was a long day, and though we didn’t know each other when it started, by the end, he invited me to play Dungeons & Dragons with his older brother and another friend. The kid next to me was a year older – Jason Groce – he’d recently moved to the small town I lived in.
I was a super awkward nerd with thick glasses, the kind of mustache only a 12-year-old could grow, a giant cast for my broken arm, and a presentation on the stealth technology of the SR-71 Blackbird. Julia Roth: Let’s chat your TTRPG back story! How did you find yourself at the table?ĭavid Nett: The scene: 1985, the splendor of the Class B junior high science fair hosted at the Dakota Square Mall in Minot, ND.
RELATED: Check out more Tavern Talk Thursdays! David Nett Be sure to check it out after binging all this TTRPG fun stuff down below.īe sure to follow David Nett on Twitter, and if you are in the Burbank, CA, area, drop in for a class! Nett’s most recent appearance is in Justin Lee’s remake of The Most Dangerous Game. When not guiding fellow fitness fanatics through nerd-inspired programs alongside his wife Christy Black, he is enjoying his time at the table or staring in movies. He has been a long-time TTRPG player, joining the Dungeons and Dragons community during the 80s and was hooked. This week we are talking to an incredible actor, writer for Geek and Sundry’s Starter Kit, co-owner of Hero’s Journey Fitness and fellow nerd, David Nett. Think of it as a little sneak peeks into the minds of our fellow players and DMs.
Welcome to Tavern Talk Thursday! This is a weekly column where we chat with a member of the TTRPG (tabletop role-playing game) community to learn more about how they found themselves at the table, what they love about tabletop gaming and other fun things.
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