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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1022658" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>That was fun to read, Andargor. It is very similar to my introduction to the game in (around) 1980. Boy Scout camping trip... yadda, yadda, yadda... I've been gaming for 23 years. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>I can still remember the thrill of having the red box in my hands on my 10th birthday. I read that book cover to cover at least three times the first week. And then we went on a trip to my grandparents house!</p><p></p><p>With none of my friends to play with, I forced my little (7 years old) sister to play. That whole "session" makes me smile every time I think of it.</p><p></p><p>First off, I didn't have any dice with me, so I stole some d6's out of a board game (Monopoly I think) at my grandparents house. My sister played a dwarf who was after some goblins.</p><p></p><p>One of the maps at the back of the book was a cross section instead of a "top down" map like the ones we all use now, and so my dungeon map was that way too. I showed it to my sister and said, "You are here."</p><p></p><p>She explored all over the map, looking for the goblins and killing them when she would find them. Since I had no dice, I resorted to asking my uncle (who was unfortunate enough to be sitting in the room) to "Pick a number between 1 and 20." After a dozen or so iterations of that, I was sternly informed by my father to "CUT IT OUT!" Party pooper.</p><p></p><p>So then, I took to randomly flipping open the book and using the page number as a random number generator. I'd take the last digit of the page number and roll a d6. Odd meant that the number represented 1-10 and even represented 11-20.</p><p></p><p>Somewhere in the midst of all this, my sister's dwarf got hit for a decent chunk of damage and decided to flee. Now that the goblins were chasing her, she decided to use her dwarf's pick to start digging her own tunnels. So I took my eraser to the map and soon it was a litteral maze of underground architecture. She finally dug her way back to the surface and went to town where she "had a drink of water" and sold her loot. I think she bought a magic helmet, but I can't quite recall.</p><p></p><p>To this day, that cross section map sits in one of my old gaming folders and I sometimes take it out and think about how much gaming has shaped the course of my life. I think it is a big reason for the friends that I'm closest to. And I've learned more from my association with gaming (about things like history, sociology, ecology, architecture, ancient technology, language and mythology, just to name a few) than any other hobby I could imagine.</p><p></p><p>Funny, isn't it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 1022658, member: 99"] That was fun to read, Andargor. It is very similar to my introduction to the game in (around) 1980. Boy Scout camping trip... yadda, yadda, yadda... I've been gaming for 23 years. :) I can still remember the thrill of having the red box in my hands on my 10th birthday. I read that book cover to cover at least three times the first week. And then we went on a trip to my grandparents house! With none of my friends to play with, I forced my little (7 years old) sister to play. That whole "session" makes me smile every time I think of it. First off, I didn't have any dice with me, so I stole some d6's out of a board game (Monopoly I think) at my grandparents house. My sister played a dwarf who was after some goblins. One of the maps at the back of the book was a cross section instead of a "top down" map like the ones we all use now, and so my dungeon map was that way too. I showed it to my sister and said, "You are here." She explored all over the map, looking for the goblins and killing them when she would find them. Since I had no dice, I resorted to asking my uncle (who was unfortunate enough to be sitting in the room) to "Pick a number between 1 and 20." After a dozen or so iterations of that, I was sternly informed by my father to "CUT IT OUT!" Party pooper. So then, I took to randomly flipping open the book and using the page number as a random number generator. I'd take the last digit of the page number and roll a d6. Odd meant that the number represented 1-10 and even represented 11-20. Somewhere in the midst of all this, my sister's dwarf got hit for a decent chunk of damage and decided to flee. Now that the goblins were chasing her, she decided to use her dwarf's pick to start digging her own tunnels. So I took my eraser to the map and soon it was a litteral maze of underground architecture. She finally dug her way back to the surface and went to town where she "had a drink of water" and sold her loot. I think she bought a magic helmet, but I can't quite recall. To this day, that cross section map sits in one of my old gaming folders and I sometimes take it out and think about how much gaming has shaped the course of my life. I think it is a big reason for the friends that I'm closest to. And I've learned more from my association with gaming (about things like history, sociology, ecology, architecture, ancient technology, language and mythology, just to name a few) than any other hobby I could imagine. Funny, isn't it? [/QUOTE]
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