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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DestroyYouAlot" data-source="post: 4037613" data-attributes="member: 36618">Huh - I voted no, although the answer is technically yes.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I started roleplaying with AD&D, right on the cusp of 2nd edition (barring a short and very free-form session at camp, sans rulebooks or dice).  Previously I'd devoured Choose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy, and Endless Quest books like they were crack cocaine, but that was where I got my start.HOWEVER:  To the question in the thread title - "Basic D&D: Did it hook you?" - I'd say yes, twice.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I picked up the Black Box set during that brief 2e-era Basic D&D revival, and it really sparked new creativity in me as a GM.  I used it to run Hollow World for a few - not knowing jack about Mystara, I placed it as the chewy nougat center of my version of the Realms - but, not having the Rules Cyclopedia (or any of the BECMI boxes), I was only able to get so much out of the rules therein, and ended up going back to 2e (albeit with a whole new lease on life as a GM).Fast-forward 13 years, and I'm just now picking up B/X (along with Blue Box, BECMI, and RC), and loving the HELL out of it - runs like silk.  Its insidious influence is slowly but surely creeping into my HackMaster game, as well, where I can assure you it's quite lonely and out of place.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Edit: Just now remembering, my first brush with D&D, even before the impromptu camp session.  I was stuck outside the principal's office (where I spent much of my time), and someone had left the 1e Monster Manual in the "bad kid" desk.  I was FASCINATED - all the crazy art, the descriptions - these numbers, what do they MEAN, they're like some kind of code!  This definitely added to my already-burning curiosity about what the hell D&D was.</blockquote>

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