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How Did You Learn to Play D&D?
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Jackwraith wrote: Taught myself. My parents bought me the Basic set for my birthday in 1981 and I read through it and ran Keep on the Borderlands with my sister and my mother. I was headed to school out of state in the fall and took it with me. When I got there, I found a bunch of people already had AD&D stuff, so I moved on to that immediately. Haven't played in over 20 years, though.
I had been playing AD&D for a couple of years before that red box Basic set came out, but I was very impressed with the presentation of that set. It seemed like the most accessible version of the game ever published, aside from maybe 5th edition.
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I was one of those weirdos that was thrilled to read the example playthrough in the Dungeon Masters guide (AD&D 1e or 2e, the one with the dude in robes opening the doors), and being really sad when the example ended, haha, I guess playing vicariously
I had the Ravenloft module and the Greyhawk box but mostly we would turn up, roll up characters do some half ass mission and pack away, its still a latent fantasy that one day I would have friends nice enough to hang out with and nerdy enough to play a RPG (and one of them being the GM). Close to 50 years old, its not going to happen, still with youngish kids at home. Maybe they will be my salvation, though I guess its OK if I get to be the gM in that case. Its a lot of work to create something great (not for kids though, I guess they will love any old nonsense)
A highlight memory was a year when we had it particularly rough (we were always pretty strapped for cash so it became a running joke that it would be a "poor christmas", I picked out some of the AD&D books, the PHB, DMG, MM, and thats pretty much all I got from my parents, my mum was really sad and ashamed that they couldnt afford anything else but I kept telling them it was the best present I ever had, and I was not lying. I spent so much time poring through those books, and even if ultimately I never "played" D&D very much at all actually, I lived that world and those books (eventually getting Fiend Folio and some other bits) in a way that will always be among the most treasured memories of my youth
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