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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 316369" data-attributes="member: 2201">My first game was in '79, I was 23, just out of the Navy.  I had been on a ship being decommisioned and duty was making sure workmen didn't set fires with the acetylene torches.  It was incredibly boring so we usually had a book or something. I found this small white box with three tan booklets in a toy store, found them fascinating but confusing.  When I got out of the Navy I found an ad in a magazine published by some college students.  One article was about D&D and the author included his phone number and an invite to try the game with his group.  He was shocked that he actually got a call.The first game, as they are explaining how to roll up a character, the DM tells me, "I hope you won't mind but you must roll up a dwarf because that is what we have penciled into the marching order."  I still don't understand why I "must" have done that but I liked dwarves so had no problem with it.  We used the Princton variant rules for D&D so I ended up with a 19 Strength and a 3 Charisma.  Being such a newbie then I gave the character the name Gimli.  His first adventure they went digging in barrows and we fought a wight!  Nice scary fight and the DM was good at describing things.  Ended up with splitting treasure and they had a mace (+2!) that none of the other party members used so I asked if I could have it.  I've noticed that if I ask for stuff that no one else really wants my characters tend to end up with a lot of neat toys... <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=":)" />  but that may be a different thread.My dwarf got turned to stone, after using my mirror shield to stone a basilisk...  the DM asked me three times (!) if I "..really want to do that?"  I've since learned that if the DM asks you that say, "uhm...no."  <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=":)" />  They put the dwarf statue on the back of one of the PCs that got turned into giant cockroaches (Cursed scroll - Robert West Curse System; should be familiar to anyone who has played at PrinCon).  We got chewed out by our Ducal patron for showing up in town with loot laden cockroaches since our mission was supposed to covert, but hey...Gimli also once got the killing blow in on a baby white dragon by flying invisibly and smashing it with his mace as he flew by.  Great fun.  Ended up as Fighter 6/Thief 6; very powerful for the campaign we were in.</blockquote>

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