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Post by magremore on Jun 14, 2019 19:36:55 GMT -6
A couple of conflicting memories but it was probably late ’82 or early ’83 when I was 9. My cousin, a few years older, ran his first session for the family (his parents, mine, & my other cousin). Moldvay Basic, Keep on the Borderlands. We didn’t get very far, and my thief nearly died protecting another party member from a traitorous NPC elf, but it was awesome.
In the summer of ’83 a kid visiting his cousin at the apartment complex where I lived ran The Secret of Saltmarsh. We got through the haunted house and made it to the ship in an all day session, but we never got back to the planned second session to finish it. That day was even more awesome. Played a thief in that one too. I *think* I was the one who pegged Ned for what he was, but that could be an embellished memory. I remember the ghouls kicking our butts, but I don't think any of us died, and somehow we defeated them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2020 6:03:04 GMT -6
Sometime in 1994 my brothers and I had been working on some ideas for imagination games using toys and either dice or cards, or both. Another kid at school overheard us talking about our imagination games and remarked that it sounded a lot like D&D. We didn't know what D&D was outside of certain video games we'd played so we decided to participate in a game when we found out a member of the school faculty ran games for kids sometimes. I'm not 100% sure what version of the rules she was using exactly but I believe it was the 2e starter set called "First Quest".
I remember being a Dwarf. I decided my nemesis was this Elf who stole my father's axe. (The DM asked us a reason we were on this adventure and that's what 10 year old me came up with.) My little Dwarf did well in the first few encounters and dungeon rooms but succumbed to a pit trap early on and died, but that didn't turn me away from the game. I kept going with another pregen backup. I don't recall 100% but I might have been a barbarian or something. It was another melee class, and a human. On the fly I decided his motivation was "to find a jewel as big as my head", which he actually accomplished at some point.
After this session my brother and I managed to find some photocopies of the BECMI rules (we didn't know D&D and AD&D were two different games and to be honest we didn't care) and run some campaigns of our own, although I don't think we ever fully understood/used the rules properly back then. We had enough fun, though. It stuck with me.
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Post by tedopon on Mar 10, 2022 10:33:57 GMT -6
I played a thief and about an hour into the game, another player pushed me into a pool of lava, and of course I died. I remember laughing a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2022 15:30:54 GMT -6
I played a thief and about an hour into the game, another player pushed me into a pool of lava, and of course I died. I remember laughing a lot. With friends like these...
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