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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9107498" data-attributes="member: 99786">1977 or 1978 -We had spent the summer of 1977 playing the Magic Realm board game, and then someone heard of this D&amp;D game.I recall seeing someone in 7th grade science (1977-78) creating a dungeon on graph paper and him trying to describe what you did in D&amp;D and me not grokking it at all from his description. But someone in our group must have eventually went and got the Holmes Basic Set. I soon after bought the AD&amp;D monster manual - it got released before the PHB. Vague recollection of seeing the AD&amp;D Monster manual at the book store with the Dungeons and Dragons name, and buying it - but having no concept of Basic/Advanced/whatever.I remember playing B1 and someone having the Holmes book, and I had the MM and we were trying to reconcile some of the discrepancies.Edit to add: Because of this discrepancy, that's how I can set the time - sometime after MM (1977) came out and before PHB (1978) was released.Finally me and my pal Rick (of Arden Vul fame) went to a hobby shop a couple of towns over so he could buy the AD&amp;D PHB. We soon shifted all our gaming over to AD&amp;D and never looked back.Ironically, between 1994 and 2006 I managed then owned a game store - but played no D&amp;D during that time. My game group was all hardcore GURPS players. I have never played more than a session or two of 2e/3e/3.5</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9107498, member: 99786"] 1977 or 1978 - We had spent the summer of 1977 playing the Magic Realm board game, and then someone heard of this D&D game. I recall seeing someone in 7th grade science (1977-78) creating a dungeon on graph paper and him trying to describe what you did in D&D and me not grokking it [I]at all[/I] from his description. But someone in our group must have eventually went and got the Holmes Basic Set. I soon after bought the AD&D monster manual - it got released before the PHB. Vague recollection of seeing the AD&D Monster manual at the book store with the Dungeons and Dragons name, and buying it - but having no concept of Basic/Advanced/whatever. I remember playing B1 and someone having the Holmes book, and I had the MM and we were trying to reconcile some of the discrepancies. Edit to add: Because of this discrepancy, that's how I can set the time - sometime after MM (1977) came out and before PHB (1978) was released. Finally me and my pal Rick (of Arden Vul fame) went to a hobby shop a couple of towns over so he could buy the AD&D PHB. We soon shifted all our gaming over to AD&D and never looked back. Ironically, between 1994 and 2006 I managed then owned a game store - but played no D&D during that time. My game group was all hardcore GURPS players. I have never played more than a session or two of 2e/3e/3.5 [/QUOTE]

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