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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5325562" data-attributes="member: 35909">I was in high school and a friend ran a pre-made adventure for myself and another friend to get us into D&D.  It was 2E.  My friend picked some big burly paladin, I could swear it was a half-orc, even though I don't think that was possible in 2E.  I chose a female elf fighter/mage, mostly because the character image for her was rather appealing...The DM had us roll a d20 for all our stats, and mistakenly thought we did the same for AC and THAC0.  So I ended up being a level 1 character with THAC0 5, without even realizing how stupidly broken that was at the time.  My poor friend rolled "only" a 19 and as a result couldn't hit very well.  It was a short lived game, because the paladin player was basically just treating it as a game, ie, "Whatever, whatever, I'll do what I want!"He nearly died rushing forward in what the DM hinted was a trapped area after falling in a pit.  And then needed my help to get out because he couldn't climb out on his own with all his heavy armor.  Then we reached an underground town, I think it was Xorn, but I can't be sure.  The DM intended for us to befriend them and get some aid from them for our upcoming battles.  Instead, my friend, recoiling in disgust at their appearance, shouted insults at them.  The DM refused to let me try to muzzle him with my hands before he could say anything.  So...the two of us were now fleeing as fast as possible from a whole town of angry Xorn(?) who weren't even the enemies the DM had planned to throw at us.  DM basically decided to just end the game there, since we had FUBARed to such an insane, un-survivable extent.I never tried D&D again until 1.5-2 years later, a little while after 3E had come out.</blockquote>

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