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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ainamacar" data-source="post: 5326329" data-attributes="member: 70709">I had played CRPGs for quite a long time, but my first time playing tabletop was in summer 2004, not quite a year after I started grad school.  I just showed up at the game and made a 10th level human male samurai named Ainamacar, for lack of anything better.  I'm staring at the character sheet, actually.I'm a bit hazy on the details of that session, but we were in the basement of what amounted to a haunted house, except this basement had a little pond with an island and some chests on it.  A couple failed will saves vs some illusions later and we were being accosted by several Tendriculous from the island while most of us were on shore.  No one died, and I think there was eventually treasure.The DM lent me the PHB, Complete Warrior, and I think Complete Divine.  I inhaled the rules (I become the rules guy in the space of a month) and came back the next week with a human male rogue1/barbarian1/fighter2/ranger6, and an involved backstory to explain why that makes a lick of sense.  His name was Aehrost, but at the table we mostly called him Shadowdancer because the rest of his levels before retirement were in that.Meanwhile, the samurai disappeared for the same in-game reason he first appeared in a random basement: none whatsoever.  As far as any of us know, he's still there.</blockquote>