I played a couple times about...five years ago maybe. My manager at the time used to get a couple people together to play and since she was super cool I played a few times but I never got too into it.
I used to play a ton the summers I was in high school - we'd spend all-nighters on our campaigns. I lost touch with it and haven't played in years, but was just invited to join a WoW campaign. It's a little embarrassing, but there's something so unbelievably addictive about it...!
I know how to play a bit, because there are people playing at camp, but I never really was able to join. So I have never had the chance to get into it, you know...
I played 3 or 4 times before with a few friends, its pretty addictive and fun but i never got into it really.
Yeah its expensive, i got the basic player book and a basic set of D&D dice bought them when i thought i was going to be playing a lot.
You don't -need- all that stuff, though. You only need the PHB. Heck, with sites like d20srd you don't even need dice. Well, and the DM needs the DM manual. =) The other books --monster manuals, extra worlds, etc-- help you to create more/different campaigns, but they're very much optional.
Yeah you can play with just 1 copy of the Dm book and you can even manage with 1 players hand book. Then you can just make up monsters and bad guys yourself and make up the roll to hit and the hit points.
Dungeons and Dragons. I wish I could play, but I never see any boards in the stores. You gotta go to America and travel back in time about 10 years or so.
Believe it or not... I had a class in High School that was based around D&D. Only time I ever played. Easy credit I figured... and I liked the teacher. It was alright. Saw a bunch of cool nerd fights over The Vorpal Blade of Gangar!!!! Or something like that.
I wish I had a class at my school like that. It would be so awesome. And it was probably a Vorpal Blade of Brilliant Energy. ie, a weapon that pretty much always killed what it hit.
The class was mainly Fantasty Fiction and we read some classics like the Lord of the Rings and Alice in Wonder and Beowulf. Then we'd play D&D for half the class. We made our own dungeons and each had to DM. The teacher had us playing pretty realistically but a few kids would always complain until they got to obtain godly items.
*is getting more and more envious by the minute* >.< I want to take that class even more now. And godly weapons make the game stupid. What's the point of being able to win every fight without having to actually do anything? That's just boring.