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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spunky_mutters" data-source="post: 317396" data-attributes="member: 5426">I was staying over at a friend's house, and he asked me if I wanted to play this game I had heard him talking about with his brother. They seemed enthralled with it, but I just wanted to play Adventure on the 2600. After some coercing, I rolled up an elf  "Androg" to go with my buddy's dwarf, and their mom's halfling. We played through Isle of Dread (toned down for our low-level party). I think we ran away a lot. I went off the deep end after that. I convinced my mom to get me the basic set (and I bought Castle Amber with it. I figured I had to have an adventure, not knowing Keep came with it).I started playing with my friend's brother at school every day after that. He was the nastiest DM I have ever seen. It was a ridiculously Monty Haul campaign, but the character turnover was atrocious. You always started at 1st (Androg made it to 6th in no time, then got killed. He was reincarnated as a Human, so I took the opportunity to start him over as a AD&D wizard), and the other players were mosly 12th-20th. We played a mish-mash of OD&D and AD&D, with a heavy dose of house rules. One big one was that demons dealt permanent damage. I still remember the guy with the 29th level ranger with 4 hit points (he had a prolonged fight with a demon lord, just barely being pulled out. But now he couldn't be healed. That character kind of got retired). Players were always killing each other, and the ref was always luring the players to their deaths. If people hadn't cheated up characters from outside, we wouldn't have had the constant stream of fodder for our school game.These guys were 2 years older than me, though, so I had to scare up some other friend, as they moved on to high school at the end of the year.</blockquote>

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