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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 316791" data-attributes="member: 3649">First GameSo I hear these people in the back room of the hobby shop where I've come to purchase 'Chitin'; saw an ad bout it in Analog and it sounded interesting so I called all over town looking for it.This was.. '77? Or '78. Memory fails me. I don't think the first Monster Manual was out yet, but I'm not sure.Anyway this looks like fun so I sit down with the group and they need a new person. I roll like I'm told and since I get a great Intelligence, I'm told I should be a magic user. One spell: Magic Missile. No-one suggests a name. This should have been a clue.The party is travelling overland across vast plains. We meet a caravan. Everyone else seems very nervous for reasons I can't imagine but we eventually bed down for the night along with the caravan merchants. Who soon throw off their disguises and reveal themselves as Mind Flayers. Ten minutes of screaming, fire tossing, burning wagons, squealing horses and yells of 'Run!' later, my poor nameless wizard is pounced by a Mind Flayer and has his brains sucked out of him like they were fine patte. Dead. Twenty-five minutes into the game, dead. No wonder they didn't suggest a name. <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=":)" />Of course I was back there next week...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 316791, member: 3649"] [b]First Game[/b] So I hear these people in the back room of the hobby shop where I've come to purchase 'Chitin'; saw an ad bout it in Analog and it sounded interesting so I called all over town looking for it. This was.. '77? Or '78. Memory fails me. I don't think the first Monster Manual was out yet, but I'm not sure. Anyway this looks like fun so I sit down with the group and they need a new person. I roll like I'm told and since I get a great Intelligence, I'm told I should be a magic user. One spell: Magic Missile. No-one suggests a name. This should have been a clue. The party is travelling overland across vast plains. We meet a caravan. Everyone else seems very nervous for reasons I can't imagine but we eventually bed down for the night along with the caravan merchants. Who soon throw off their disguises and reveal themselves as Mind Flayers. Ten minutes of screaming, fire tossing, burning wagons, squealing horses and yells of 'Run!' later, my poor nameless wizard is pounced by a Mind Flayer and has his brains sucked out of him like they were fine patte. Dead. Twenty-five minutes into the game, dead. No wonder they didn't suggest a name. :) Of course I was back there next week... [/QUOTE]

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