How I got into TTRPGs

I didn’t start with Dungeons & Dragons . I want that to be clear. I became exposed to the Realms via video games first and then novels and then I played Lost Mines of Phandelver beginning in March 2018. But I had already been playing TTRPGs for years at that point. One, really, though I had tried one other. Let's go back to the Summer of 2013. I was visiting Illinois for the first time since I had…