We were playing Dungeon! before we ever played D&D, come to think of it. In the dark days before multiplayer CRPGs, my brother and I would play "clean out" and spend an entire afternoon clearing every single room on the map and see who had the biggest haul of treasure at the end.
This is heresy on this side of the Atlantic, but I honestly think the first six Fighting Fantasy books (minus the terrible Spaceship Traveller, which is basically a terrible Choose Your Own Adventure book with a bit of dice rolling) are a better intro to RPGs than anything since.
I count five.
Six minus one is five, yes.I count five.
Super-immersive, too. When you're a kid, you can't typically hope for a DM as good as Jackson and Livingstone, especially combined with British RPG artists at their peak.
They actually crossed over once or twice, presumably for laughs and to confuse librarians and historians in the future.
Upon re-reading, my mistake.Six minus one is five, yes.
But you did promote the great first two parts of the Sorcery! trilogy, which I failed to do. An extremely hard mini-campaign to complete, but man, is it atmospheric. (The modern day digital adaptation from Inkle is worth checking out, if you haven't.)Upon re-reading, my mistake.
This book was what got me interested in D&D decades ago....
But it wasn't until I was in college that I actually got a chance to roll up a character and role-play in 2e D&D. After college, I mostly collected 3e and PF1 books. I didn't get back into role-playing D&D until a friend of mine invited me and another friend into his RPG group two years ago.
