Listening to content creators talking about how they first started playing Dungeons & Dragons is a guilty pleasure I’m growing increasingly fond of. The nostalgia is particularly powerful; I find the concept of my being a hard core old skool DM strange.
I started playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons back in 1981, being introduced to the game by school friends I’d played other games with.
I played a Fighter in my first game. I didn’t understand the concept in the slightest—when I heard that another character was pickpocketing an NPC I tried to do the same thing. No, it didn’t work out well; my friends were thoroughly amused.
The first two videos I’ve linked below are YouTubers who talk a bit about about their first D&D experiences. (The comments made about playing with old skool D&D players in the Animation Roundtable crack me up.)
The last video, “The Adventure Zone” is a podcast of players playing their first game.