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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 5324775" data-attributes="member: 508">My two cousins, who lived about an hour and a half away, brought their D&D game over one visit.  They had each created half of a dungeon and were going to swap off DM/player roles as we explored their respective halves of the dungeon.  Rather than waste time on character creation, they brought about eight 1st-level PCs that they let us choose from, and we woke up in the dungeon with no memories of how we had gotten there, and we were off!I remember being very disappointed in the PCs we had to choose from, because once it had been explained that the ability scores went from 3-18 and 18 was the good end of the scale, I couldn't help but notice that just about every PC had a "4" or "5" or "6" in their ability scores.  Newbie that I was, I knew that meant they sucked at something in the game, but I chose a human druid named "Jon" (my cousins had prenamed each PC as well) whose ability scores didn't suck too much, and we made it through the dungeon.  (After the game, I found out they had used a computer program to randomly generate a number between 3 and 18, rather than randomly generate three numbers between 1 and 6 and add them together, or, you know, just roll the dang dice!)In any case, the first thing we met up with were a bunch of giant rats, and I (quite wisely, I thought at the time) ran away at full speed like a frightened girl.  Once it was explained that giant rats were wimps and we could easily take them, I got more into the spirit of the game.Johnathan</blockquote>

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