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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8545833" data-attributes="member: 1465">My first ever experience playing D&amp;D was with the &quot;Black Box&quot;. I don't know if the DM was using some house rules at character creation, but there were minimum ability scores to play each class, either strictly required or imposing XP penalties if you didn't reach those minimums. We had to roll 3d6 in order, but the DM allowed some adjustments. I ended up with so poor numbers that even with the adjustments I only qualified to played the only class I wasn't interested at all in i.e. Dwarf, and with overall poor scores at everything. Apparently I was a decent enough player even as a beginner, because my wish for it to die quickly so that I could re-roll everything and maybe get to play an Elf never happened, and I was stuck with the crippled Dwarf until the end of the campaign.That experience definitely planted the seeds of my eternal disdain at any player who whines that their character is not competent enough at something to be playable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8545833, member: 1465"] My first ever experience playing D&D was with the "Black Box". I don't know if the DM was using some house rules at character creation, but there were minimum ability scores to play each class, either strictly required or imposing XP penalties if you didn't reach those minimums. We had to roll 3d6 in order, but the DM allowed some adjustments. I ended up with so poor numbers that even with the adjustments I only qualified to played the only class I wasn't interested at all in i.e. Dwarf, and with overall poor scores at everything. Apparently I was a decent enough player even as a beginner, because my wish for it to die quickly so that I could re-roll everything and maybe get to play an Elf never happened, and I was stuck with the crippled Dwarf until the end of the campaign. That experience definitely planted the seeds of my eternal disdain at any player who whines that their character is not competent enough at something to be playable. [/QUOTE]

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