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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4872801" data-attributes="member: 18280">(1)&nbsp; Don't confuse spin-off conversation with original intent.(2)&nbsp; The poll provides a body of people to specifically ask about their experiences, and see how they intersect (or do not) with my own.&nbsp; It also tells me whose opinions I need not seek, or need not give weight to, when I am trying to figure out where I came in contact with that infectious meme.For the record, I started with Holmes Blue Box and Keep on the Borderlands as my first taste of D&amp;D, and AFAICT I was the person who first purchased the game in my local area (then Hartland, Wisconsin), at least among my local peer group.&nbsp; There was only one other DM that I knew of in the earliest of days, and in later conversation he explicitly told me that he bought the game after seeing me reading the Holmes book in the school library.Prior to that, I was aware of a TV spot, but I do not believe it discussed multilevel dungeons, and a small article I read focusing mainly on Car Wars in an Upper Michigan newspaper at my grandmother's is Chatham.I didn't go to conventions, except once (and that was later).&nbsp; It was only many years later that I even saw the original booklets.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4872801, member: 18280"] (1) Don't confuse spin-off conversation with original intent. (2) The poll provides a body of people to specifically ask about their experiences, and see how they intersect (or do not) with my own. It also tells me whose opinions I need not seek, or need not give weight to, when I am trying to figure out where I came in contact with that infectious meme. For the record, I started with Holmes Blue Box and Keep on the Borderlands as my first taste of D&D, and AFAICT I was the person who first purchased the game in my local area (then Hartland, Wisconsin), at least among my local peer group. There was only one other DM that I knew of in the earliest of days, and in later conversation he explicitly told me that he bought the game after seeing me reading the Holmes book in the school library. Prior to that, I was aware of a TV spot, but I do not believe it discussed multilevel dungeons, and a small article I read focusing mainly on Car Wars in an Upper Michigan newspaper at my grandmother's is Chatham. I didn't go to conventions, except once (and that was later). It was only many years later that I even saw the original booklets. RC [/QUOTE]

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