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<blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 5451568" data-attributes="member: 23094">So, the first time I ever played D&amp;D, I was a human fighter with a handaxe and a potion of cure light wounds.&nbsp; I was ... uh ... young?&nbsp; Young-ish, anyway.1.&nbsp; In mortal combat, I killed my first enemy ever - a vicious wolf!&nbsp; I then proceeded to ask the DM how many gold coins and experience I received for defeating such a foe.&nbsp; Up until that point, my roleplaying experience consisted entirely of Nintendo games - Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy foremost among them.*&nbsp; In those games, killing enemies of all stripes gave you gold and XP, and since D&amp;D was kinda like them, I figured it would work the same way.&nbsp; Everyone had a good laugh, asking such things as, &quot;Where would the wolf even keep the gold?&nbsp; In his mouth?&quot;2.&nbsp; Same game, at the end of the evening.&nbsp; My fighter is dangerously near death, and has spent several combat rounds basically trying to not die, rather than attacking the enemy.&nbsp; As the game wraps up, the DM asks me why I didn't just drink my potion to heal myself and get back in the fight.&nbsp; I pointed out that I hadn't sustained any &quot;Light Wounds,&quot; which, to my mind, would be caused by some kind of holy source (as opposed, I guess, to &quot;Dark Wounds,&quot; which would be caused by undead and similar creatures or unholy magics).&nbsp; I pointed out that, given that we were supposedly the heroes, having a potion to heal wounds-caused-by-good-guys seemed a bit odd to me as starting equipment, but then I was new at this and had already botched the wolf thing earlier in the evening.&nbsp; The DM then pointed out that, no, it meant it was a weak healing potion, to which I asked, &quot;Oh - well, then would it have been any help at all, then?&nbsp; I was pretty heavily banged up.&quot;And so began a multi-decade RPG career. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />* This is also why I was using just a handaxe; in Dragon Warrior, the handaxe was a pretty damn good weapon that you had to wait until the 2nd or 3rd town to buy!&nbsp; In D&amp;D, I</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patryn of Elvenshae, post: 5451568, member: 23094"] So, the first time I ever played D&D, I was a human fighter with a handaxe and a potion of cure light wounds. I was ... uh ... young? Young-ish, anyway. 1. In mortal combat, I killed my first enemy ever - a vicious wolf! I then proceeded to ask the DM how many gold coins and experience I received for defeating such a foe. Up until that point, my roleplaying experience consisted entirely of Nintendo games - Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy foremost among them.* In those games, killing enemies of all stripes gave you gold and XP, and since D&D was kinda like them, I figured it would work the same way. Everyone had a good laugh, asking such things as, "Where would the wolf even keep the gold? In his mouth?" 2. Same game, at the end of the evening. My fighter is dangerously near death, and has spent several combat rounds basically trying to not die, rather than attacking the enemy. As the game wraps up, the DM asks me why I didn't just drink my potion to heal myself and get back in the fight. I pointed out that I hadn't sustained any "Light Wounds," which, to my mind, would be caused by some kind of holy source (as opposed, I guess, to "Dark Wounds," which would be caused by undead and similar creatures or unholy magics). I pointed out that, given that we were supposedly the heroes, having a potion to heal wounds-caused-by-good-guys seemed a bit odd to me as starting equipment, but then I was new at this and had already botched the wolf thing earlier in the evening. The DM then pointed out that, no, it meant it was a weak healing potion, to which I asked, "Oh - well, then would it have been any help at all, then? I was pretty heavily banged up." And so began a multi-decade RPG career. :) * This is also why I was using just a handaxe; in Dragon Warrior, the handaxe was a pretty damn good weapon that you had to wait until the 2nd or 3rd town to buy! In D&D, I [/QUOTE]

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