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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 318741" data-attributes="member: 99">It wasn't exactly my first game, but it was one of the most memorable...So I had played once or twice with some guys in the Boy Scouts whose characters were all gods and were constantly threatening to kill or banish each other.&nbsp; It is a testament to how compelling roleplaying is that I still wanted to play given that first exposure.I got the &quot;Red Book&quot; basic D&amp;D game for my birthday a few months later.&nbsp; The only problem was that I didn't have anybody to play with.&nbsp; So I cajoled my sister (then, around 7 years old) into playing the adventure at the back of the basic book.At one point we were playing in the back seat of the car on the ride home from my grandparents house.&nbsp; My dad was driving and my uncle was in the front seat next to him.&nbsp; The trick was that we didn't have any dice yet and the d6's that I had been using had to be left back with the Monopoly game back at my grandparents.&nbsp; No problem.&nbsp; Every time we needed a random roll, I just asked my uncle to pick a number between 1 and 20 or 1 and 6 or whatever.&nbsp; After interrupting my dad and uncle's conversation about 50 times like this, dad told me to shut up (he had a lot more patience than I do).&nbsp; So then we resorted to flipping the pages of the rule book, using the page numbers as our random number generator.The other thing I recall about that game was that we used a &quot;cut away&quot; map I had drawn of the caves below the tower in the adventure.&nbsp; My sister was playing a dwarf and she kept digging new tunnels to escape the goblins that were after her.&nbsp; Me being a rather tough DM at the time, I only let her dig at half her normal walking speed.&nbsp; We kept erasing and drawing on the map as the tension mounted and she finally escaped the tunnels just ahead of her goblin pursuers.&nbsp; One of the funnest games ever.For years after that, I kept that map and when I came across it in my pile of D&amp;D stuff, I would smile at the memory of one of my earliest games.&nbsp; I would also torture my sister with it when she later developed her &quot;D&amp;D is geeky&quot; attitude.&nbsp; It's been over 20 years since then, but I'm not so sure I don't still have that map somewhere in my gaming stuff.Oh, and my parents bought me some dice at their earliest opportunity.&nbsp; I guess some people just don't enjoy generating random numbers at the behest of their ten year olds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rel, post: 318741, member: 99"] It wasn't exactly my first game, but it was one of the most memorable... So I had played once or twice with some guys in the Boy Scouts whose characters were all gods and were constantly threatening to kill or banish each other. It is a testament to how compelling roleplaying is that I still wanted to play given that first exposure. I got the "Red Book" basic D&D game for my birthday a few months later. The only problem was that I didn't have anybody to play with. So I cajoled my sister (then, around 7 years old) into playing the adventure at the back of the basic book. At one point we were playing in the back seat of the car on the ride home from my grandparents house. My dad was driving and my uncle was in the front seat next to him. The trick was that we didn't have any dice yet and the d6's that I had been using had to be left back with the Monopoly game back at my grandparents. No problem. Every time we needed a random roll, I just asked my uncle to pick a number between 1 and 20 or 1 and 6 or whatever. After interrupting my dad and uncle's conversation about 50 times like this, dad told me to shut up (he had a lot more patience than I do). So then we resorted to flipping the pages of the rule book, using the page numbers as our random number generator. The other thing I recall about that game was that we used a "cut away" map I had drawn of the caves below the tower in the adventure. My sister was playing a dwarf and she kept digging new tunnels to escape the goblins that were after her. Me being a rather tough DM at the time, I only let her dig at half her normal walking speed. We kept erasing and drawing on the map as the tension mounted and she finally escaped the tunnels just ahead of her goblin pursuers. One of the funnest games ever. For years after that, I kept that map and when I came across it in my pile of D&D stuff, I would smile at the memory of one of my earliest games. I would also torture my sister with it when she later developed her "D&D is geeky" attitude. It's been over 20 years since then, but I'm not so sure I don't still have that map somewhere in my gaming stuff. Oh, and my parents bought me some dice at their earliest opportunity. I guess some people just don't enjoy generating random numbers at the behest of their ten year olds. [/QUOTE]

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