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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1060208" data-attributes="member: 891">The first time I played was at a step cousin's house. He ran me through module S1 with a first level fighter, but gave me 400 hit points. I made it all the way to the end with only the loss of a few hit points, and at the demi lich room he just closed the books and said my character was dead and it was over.So I thought -well this game sucks- and didn't give it further thought until my 11th birthday about a year or so later in 82 - I wanted the DnD Electronic boardgame with the $20 an uncle had given me, but my mother said it would just break and made me get the basic D&D set instead - a coworker had told her it was good for a kid's imagination. My first game with that and only a few minutes in my character named 'Herpes' on the suggestion of my older brother ('cause that's a good elf name') got killed on the way to the dungeon (B2) when he either fell off his horse in a rock slide or was shot by a single arrow from an orc (can't remember for sure).For some reason I stuck with it this time, and not long after I had my own copy of S1 and learned there were much better ways of running it than what I'd seen...</blockquote>