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<blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 2876592" data-attributes="member: 40370"><p>Well, a friend of mine had some of these books (the one who introduced me to the game) and he loaned them to me and I tried to read them ... this was in 1979 I believe ... but I had difficulty making much sense of them then (I was 9). I first played first released edition of the DnD Basic set.</p><p></p><p>Here's a descriptive link: <a href="http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/basic.html" target="_blank">http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/basic.html</a> (It's the next page over from what cildarith originally posted as the link for the first versions.</p><p></p><p>So I cannot claim to have played the actually first set of rules, but to have read them only. I remember reading them and using them to augment the material I read in the Basic set story wise and content wise ... these were bought for me by my folks in 1979. My friend (Adam Pack ... God bless him wherever he is) also let me borrow the first released edition of the DnD Basic set to read as well before I was given it by my folks.</p><p></p><p>So I did use them to expand my newly developing inner world of greyhawk/rpg/etc. but it was very, very early on and I remember very little other than the occasional graphic and detailed descriptions of some of the monsters that were only mentioned in extreme passing in the DnD material available up to that time....</p><p></p><p>EDIT TO THIS POST: Just read many of the articles of Robert Fisher and was shocked to find myself not only knowing 95% of EXCATLY what he was talking about but also agreeing with him most of the time?!?! Boy ... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> I feel like a dusty old unused relic or a rumplestiltskin type now....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mycanid, post: 2876592, member: 40370"] Well, a friend of mine had some of these books (the one who introduced me to the game) and he loaned them to me and I tried to read them ... this was in 1979 I believe ... but I had difficulty making much sense of them then (I was 9). I first played first released edition of the DnD Basic set. Here's a descriptive link: [url]http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/basic.html[/url] (It's the next page over from what cildarith originally posted as the link for the first versions. So I cannot claim to have played the actually first set of rules, but to have read them only. I remember reading them and using them to augment the material I read in the Basic set story wise and content wise ... these were bought for me by my folks in 1979. My friend (Adam Pack ... God bless him wherever he is) also let me borrow the first released edition of the DnD Basic set to read as well before I was given it by my folks. So I did use them to expand my newly developing inner world of greyhawk/rpg/etc. but it was very, very early on and I remember very little other than the occasional graphic and detailed descriptions of some of the monsters that were only mentioned in extreme passing in the DnD material available up to that time.... EDIT TO THIS POST: Just read many of the articles of Robert Fisher and was shocked to find myself not only knowing 95% of EXCATLY what he was talking about but also agreeing with him most of the time?!?! Boy ... :( I feel like a dusty old unused relic or a rumplestiltskin type now.... [/QUOTE]
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