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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 4698907" data-attributes="member: 891">1980 or 81, at a step cousin's house, he had me make a level 1 character, gave it 400 hit points, and ran me through module S1. I made it to the lich, avoiding every trap and monster but one arrow-door. Then he just declared that my character was dead and it ended.Experience was pretty bad actually, I came away not liking it all. But then in 82 for my birthday my mother insisted I spend $20 I got from an uncle on the basic DnD bosed set - as her coworkers told her it would be good for fostering a child's imagination.From there, with my own copy of the game, and a chance to learn that I shouldn't have had 400 hit points, but also that I should have at least been given a chance to play that last encounter... I started getting hooked.Not to mention it did in fact turn things around for me education wise, and led to a lifelong interest in reading about history, anthropology, and politics.</blockquote>