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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FungiMuncher" data-source="post: 316874" data-attributes="member: 1094">I first learned about D&D in a Games Magazine article in the late seventies, when I was 14-15.  Took me about a nine months of scouring every store in town to finally find a single boxed set with the red dragon picture.In my first game, I was the DM.  I was the only DM for my friends for several years.  Things I remember from those early years:Using dice and scraps of paper for the figures.Creating whacked out dungeons over stocked with monsters who'd never sensibly coexist with each other (trolls and red dragons?!).The efforts trying to find the first edition PHB and DMG.  Then finally finding a hobby store with any one having a clue as to what I was talking about, and were willing to actually order items, and then the excrutiating wait for the MM to arrive.Tormenting my players with a couple Wands of Wonder;  one player recieved multiple Shrink effects, and was six inches tall!The hallway of endless consecutive pit traps.Waiting the entire night for the mostly non-violent argument between the lawful neutral dwarf and the chaotic neutral elf to end.Finally getting a clue about adventure design, and creating a land in the plane of Limbo which was inspired by the Yellow Submarine movie, treatened by invading vegetable humanoids!FM</blockquote>