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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9678359" data-attributes="member: 3285">This was 100% my experience, and I was the DM! We played basic rules, jumped to AD&D, were utterly confused and just sort of kept the "Basic" style of D&D without realizing the differences. We then played the AD&D modules "cold" without understanding what made sense, using tournament characters, etc. We barely understood hirelings, and once the characters got to that level they were stupid powerful anyway. As I'm fond of recounting, one of my players decided he would just spend money as a reward to get NPCs to find him a vorpal sword ("I got a million gold; surely one of you idiot can go find one for me right?") inadvertently becoming a quest giver NPC for a future party.But we really didn't UNDERSTAND the game we were playing in high school. We played one time with a college player and he was absolutely mortified that we didn't draw maps, didn't seem to have a plan, and basically were what all the older gamers feared, that unserious bunch of unruly players who don't REALLY know how to play the game properly: MUNCHKINS.</blockquote>