That's pretty awesome (especially the outcome - a Hugo winner, nice!). My first paid job was at a gaming store called The Game Preserve, and yes, I peddled dice, Magic cards, tarot decks, RPG books and board games to gamers for two years. Then again, I also had a compute in my bedroom by the time I was 10 and was raised by my father, so I suppose I have a little bit of a different "growing up" than some.

I haven't played D&D and whatnot in 10+ years, but every now and again I have a craving for pizza, geek parlaying, deciding who walks in what order into a dungeon and celebrating the fact that now I can buy beer legally and not have to beg the older kid in the group to go buy it for us. Sadly, out of my youth I don't know any Hugo-winners personally.

Perhaps we need to add a AD&D game into the mix after the netball game Kaldari, Pete and I were joking about putting together. Heh.

-Sarah