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Which came first for you: DnD, or DnD media?
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When I was a child too many years ago, I was dimly aware that my dad played something cool involving dragons. I had no idea what it was. In retrospect, I think him and his friends just got stoned and looked at the cool pictures and figures.
My memory is a little hazy on the exact sequence that followed, but I got some DND video games. Eye of the Beholder and Baldur's Gate. I didn't know how any of the rules worked (pre-3e is wacky) but I was super into it.
I went to a very left-wing church (UU) and actually got a group to play together through that. It was about as bad as a pack of 13-year-olds is expected to be. To the two adults who volunteered to run this for us, Vera and Mindy, I'm so sorry.
I also remember some random dude in a local-ish game shop who took about 15 minutes to talk to me, an extremely excited 13-year-old, about how D&D worked and while you can do anything in it, not everything is a good idea. Thanks, random dude.
But the TLDR is: Vague word of mouth -> video games -> actual play.