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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 4304918" data-attributes="member: 18832">I read about Dungeons & Dragons in the novelisation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and then happened upon a one-volume British edition of the "red box" Basic Set a few months later. This was in early 1991, so I was about ten years old.For those who never bought that product, it teaches you to play as a solo player first, starting with a sort of short story where you play a fighter and attack a monster, then by a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure-style sequel where you meet up with the cleric Aleena to venture into a dungeon and eventually fight the Chaotic wizard Bargle. Each step, you roll more dice.Then they introduce the full rules, and the DM's section has a sequel dungeon intended for a full party. The first level is fully mapped-out, the second level is mapped but not populated, and the third level is left for the new DM to design completely.Pramas's comments about the new Player's Handbook not really teaching a completely inexperienced player how to play don't bother me so much, because I understand that Wizards of the Coast is planning a new introductory product for later on.</blockquote>