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<blockquote data-quote="Skepticultist" data-source="post: 7368000" data-attributes="member: 6898719"><p>I was 11.</p><p></p><p>In the summer of 1986, and I was visiting my dad in New Mexico. He took me to see <em>Red Sonja</em> in theaters. A few weeks later we were in an Albuquerque mall and I wandered into a game store -- not a gaming store, this place specialized in high end chess sets, poker sets, and board games. But they had a display of the Mentzer Red Box D&D, and something about the Elmore cover art made me think of Red Sonja, and I practically threw a fit insisting my dad buy it.</p><p></p><p>It was a few months later, shortly after my 11th birthday, that I convinced two classmates, Jed and Josh, to play a game of D&D. They came over to my place and spent the whole weekend. My first dungeons consisted of a several rooms in linear sequence connected by hallways, with each room containing one monster and a treasure chest. There was a skeleton, an orc, and then a thoul that killed them both. We thought it was the coolest game ever and I must have run that dungeon, with no changes, at least 20 times in that weekend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skepticultist, post: 7368000, member: 6898719"] I was 11. In the summer of 1986, and I was visiting my dad in New Mexico. He took me to see [I]Red Sonja[/I] in theaters. A few weeks later we were in an Albuquerque mall and I wandered into a game store -- not a gaming store, this place specialized in high end chess sets, poker sets, and board games. But they had a display of the Mentzer Red Box D&D, and something about the Elmore cover art made me think of Red Sonja, and I practically threw a fit insisting my dad buy it. It was a few months later, shortly after my 11th birthday, that I convinced two classmates, Jed and Josh, to play a game of D&D. They came over to my place and spent the whole weekend. My first dungeons consisted of a several rooms in linear sequence connected by hallways, with each room containing one monster and a treasure chest. There was a skeleton, an orc, and then a thoul that killed them both. We thought it was the coolest game ever and I must have run that dungeon, with no changes, at least 20 times in that weekend. [/QUOTE]
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