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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9247994" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>Happy Birthday!</p><p></p><p>I got the D&D Holmes set for Christmas in '79, and I have a flurry of memories about it - the set came with numbered chits, so we went back to the mall toy store to get dice, but all they had for a d20 was one that was numbered 0-9 in two different colors and I was able to convince my dad to get two sets of Grenadier minis - one of monsters and one of heroes. Also, my dad was taking a home drafting course (La Salle) at the time, and as "practice" he took a portion of the Caves of Chaos and enlarged them to 1" squares on a couple sheets of vellum paper for me. My brother and I played with the (lead) minis on those sheets for many hours until we abducted my mom's pattern board to turn it into an even larger battle board! I also remember painting those minis with Testor's enamels using those awful brushes that came with the paint set (and cleaning them with the included turpentine(?) cleaner).</p><p></p><p>As for actual D&D game memories, I remember my dad doing the first DMing and running away from a skeleton after a group of them had reduced my halfling character to one hit point in the first encounter. I guess that's why you don't adventure alone!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9247994, member: 52734"] Happy Birthday! I got the D&D Holmes set for Christmas in '79, and I have a flurry of memories about it - the set came with numbered chits, so we went back to the mall toy store to get dice, but all they had for a d20 was one that was numbered 0-9 in two different colors and I was able to convince my dad to get two sets of Grenadier minis - one of monsters and one of heroes. Also, my dad was taking a home drafting course (La Salle) at the time, and as "practice" he took a portion of the Caves of Chaos and enlarged them to 1" squares on a couple sheets of vellum paper for me. My brother and I played with the (lead) minis on those sheets for many hours until we abducted my mom's pattern board to turn it into an even larger battle board! I also remember painting those minis with Testor's enamels using those awful brushes that came with the paint set (and cleaning them with the included turpentine(?) cleaner). As for actual D&D game memories, I remember my dad doing the first DMing and running away from a skeleton after a group of them had reduced my halfling character to one hit point in the first encounter. I guess that's why you don't adventure alone! [/QUOTE]
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