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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgard" data-source="post: 1551937" data-attributes="member: 4157">Nostalgia trip!!!My first DM in a real campaign was female.  Nora (her first name, I can't remember her last name) ran her campaign in South Quad (Taylor House, 3rd & 4th Floor) at the University of Michigan in 1979.  She was a junior or senior then so probably had been running the game prior to my freshman arrival.She used the original boxed, 3 book set of OD&D, but we managed to convince her to let us use CCs and other stuff from the AD&D handbook and Dragon Magazine.  We had a blast in her world.  She was very well organized and had her major NPCs all written up on 3x5 index cards (funny how one can remember small details from 25 years ago) and had a major dungeon that must have been more extensive than the NYC subway system.  She had lots of house rules in play...experience was based on what you did, not necessarily what you killed.  XPs for magic users and clerics when they cast spells, XPs for damage done via melee for fighters, XPs for what thieves stole, and so on.  Damage done with melee weapons increased as your fighter increased in level.  It worked just fine and she did have a system for us to multiclass that was similar to the method currently used in the 3.5 rules.I still play several of the characters I rolled up and started in her world.  I really do have fond memories of that campaign!Hey Nora, if you are reading this, send me a note!Thanks,Rich</blockquote>

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