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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 2446071" data-attributes="member: 34175">I sense a pattern forming here...I picked #1 but (like almost everybody else) it was a combo of #1 & #2.The following description may become convoluted as I tell it, please try to keep up. <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=":)" /> My cousin (David)  played the game with his uncle (my cousin/Denny).  Denny had played/learned with a group in California that preportedly had members from the original group from Lake Geneva (Maybe Col Playdoh would know who it might be).  David ran a couple of games and I became hooked (winter 1978).  I played for about a year when the new version of the "red box" rules was announced (winter of 1979).  I saw one of those sell cards and get things ads in a comic book for Olymipc Sales Club, and guess what one of the prizes was? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I joined the OSC and went door to door selling christmas wrap and greeting cards in the middle of Jun - Aug of 1980.  I sold enough stuff to get the game and make some money to buy my first set of "real" dice, some adventure modules and other gaming paraphenalia.  I started studying the rules and playing with a group of my sister's friends (I was the only guy in a group of 5 - how often does that happen?)  Soon I found out about AD&D and started buying the "yellow spine" editions of those books.  Soon I had a library that would rival a bookstore and it just kind of spiralled out of control from there.  By that winter (1980) I was in three separate gaming groups (two in "real life" and one at school during lunch).  By spring of '81' I was DMing two of those groups and building my own campaign worlds (all at the tender age of 10.  For my eleventh B-day I scored a bunch o' dough from the family and bought to my hearts content.</blockquote>

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