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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 2509328" data-attributes="member: 2201">I was 22 years old when I got the three tan booklet set in 77.  I had been a fan of various fantasy works up until that time although the list of recommended reading in the back of the 1e DMG was great.  Most of what I had read were mysteries, Tarzan and that kind of thing.  I also watched lots of Saturday horror movies and cartoons.  (That idea may seem odd but back then they only showed a lot of that stuff on weekends, not like now with such great dedicated channels. After I got out of the Navy I was able to look for gaming material, found Melee and Wizard first, The solo dungeon was awesome!  then while looking through a SciFi bookstore in Philly (since closed, unfortunately) I found a magazine called OGRE by some Temple University students.  An article in there was about D&D and the guy who wrote actually included his phone number if someone was interested in trying the game!  (oh, so innocent were those days! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )  I was the only one who called; I might have been the only one who actually paid money for the magazine...  When we had our 25th anniversary get-together the one fellow handed out a copy of the original run of that issue to each of us.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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