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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4305411" data-attributes="member: 18">I'd played Fighting Fantasy books (including the quasi-RPG Riddling Reaver) and Kai/Magnakai books before AD&D, as well as complex tactical wargames (particularly Adeptus Titanicus).1) I heard about AD&D from a new friend when I went to secondary school. He described it and it sounded totally awesome.2) My brother and I went to buy it from Games Workshop (ah, those were the days), and picked up the books we presumed were necessary, the 2E PHB, DMG and Forgotten Realms Adventures, not realizing the need for the MC.3) We read the rules and were confused by much of them, and particularly by the lack of monsters in the DMG (where else would they be?) or what stats they needed. We also didn't "get" how you were supposed to write an adventure, or what it should contain.4) About a week later, a second cousin of ours from Canada arrived, just passing through London. She turned out to be a big AD&D player, and explained the rules and concepts to us, and what stats a monster had (and that we needed the MC), and wrote and ran a really awesome Forgotten Realms adventure for our Speciality Priests of Torm and er that Thief god (because LN and N can work together, neh?), which featured traps, magic, and all sorts of crazy excitement.5) Learning from that, I was able to write and run my own adventure within a week, and the rest is history, as they say.I didn't come across "red box" D&D until later, and my friend who told me about D&D turned out to be a 1E player and very snooty about 2E (he'd been taught to play by an older relative), though in the end he was one of my keenest players.</blockquote>

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