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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dakkareth" data-source="post: 1059604" data-attributes="member: 9928">Not DnD, but my first encounter with gaming ...I was about 7 years old and together with two friends was at my grandmother's house. They had gotten some strange books with a guy bearing an axe on the cover fpr christmas.(It was the DSA basic ruleset. DSA is one of the most played PnP RPGs in Germany)We had nothing better to do and so we started reading them. It all sounded somewhat weird to us, but once we'd read, what could happen in a game (it was like the rules clarification textes in the PHB) we were hooked. After reading the books we decided, that we'd play the next morning.The next day we secluded ourselves in a room (away from my mother, who didn't like anything associated with fantasy) and started making up characters. As I was the youngest and had read the books the least I had not much choice. One of my friends build a fighter of some sort and the other an elven wizard. I wanted a wizard, too, but he told me, that striders (rogues) could do magic, too, only later on. So I build a strider.Then there was the question of who would lead the game. After a short discussion I agreed to do it, if I could play my character at the same time. I read the stuff about how an adventure was run and then started right into the sample that came with the books.Looking back I did an incredible poor job of it fudging die rolls in both directions, making enemies fall over dead, when it became apparent, that the party wouldn't last against them, putting random extra treasure into the room, etc, etc.Well, at least I had an excuse for the enemies falling over dead, as the wizard had used his alchemy skill to poison some ingredients for food earlier. That was about the only positive thing, one could say about my style, though. Ah yes, and I separated ooc and ic, because I didn't want to be unfair. That something at least, eh?But the bad part was still to come. Under the thieves tower they had cleared out there was some door, which could only be opened by removing the pentagram on the floor with oil. So we sat there for half an hour, with my friends trying things like bashing the door, burning the door, kicking it, digging around it, etc with my only answer ever being 'It doesn't work'. Sigh. Finally I told them what to do and they entered the dungeon only to be chased out by some demon. They then used some barter skill to sell the goods they found and we went for lunch.My first and only DM experience ever and my first encounter with roleplaying <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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