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<blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 4839890" data-attributes="member: 34865"><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">For the record, I think I should point out that my "first" <strong>D&D</strong> wasn't any version of the rules; the closest would be the J.E. Holmes edit of "Basic" <strong>D&D</strong> (you know; blue cover, dragon menacing wizard and fighter...or vice-versa, anyway). I had no idea what <strong>D&D</strong> was and only the vaguest possible idea what a role-playing game was. I was sort of-kind of introduced to the concept by my schoolmates at the time (this was 1980/81), and I thought "okay, you buy these <em>modules</em> and you're all set..."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">So I bought (or, rather, pestered my perplexed parents to buy me) <strong>B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS</strong> - a fortuitous choice, because thanks to its inclusion of several key tables, and heaps of advice to the nacent DM, I was able to divine some kind of playability out of the thing, and so it was for quite a while until I had an amalgam of rulebooks, including but not limited to a <strong>DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE</strong>, <strong>MONSTER MANUAL</strong>, <strong>MONSTER MANUAL II</strong> and <strong>DEITIES & DEMIGODS</strong>, occasionally using my copies of the Dave Cook/Tom Moldvay edits of basic <strong>D&D</strong> as a guide for the things I was missing (e.g., a <strong>PLAYERS HANDBOOK</strong>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">I also didn't have many modules. The gratis copies of <strong>X1 THE ISLE OF DREAD</strong> and <strong>B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS</strong> (now made confusing by the shift of rules from Dr. Holmes' version to Mr. Moldvay's edit), and a copy of <strong>A1 SLAVE PITS OF THE UNDERCITY</strong>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">I only played a tiny bit, and the group I did game with was, to be very frank, completely <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ed in the head - but that's a story for another time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Point being, in '99 I'd gathered up what I'd missed out on and the things that I'd had, and I found it all as awesome as I'd hoped and remembered.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'">Art, rules, modules, all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'century gothic'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thedungeondelver, post: 4839890, member: 34865"] [font=century gothic] For the record, I think I should point out that my "first" [b]D&D[/B] wasn't any version of the rules; the closest would be the J.E. Holmes edit of "Basic" [b]D&D[/b] (you know; blue cover, dragon menacing wizard and fighter...or vice-versa, anyway). I had no idea what [b]D&D[/b] was and only the vaguest possible idea what a role-playing game was. I was sort of-kind of introduced to the concept by my schoolmates at the time (this was 1980/81), and I thought "okay, you buy these [i]modules[/i] and you're all set..." So I bought (or, rather, pestered my perplexed parents to buy me) [b]B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS[/B] - a fortuitous choice, because thanks to its inclusion of several key tables, and heaps of advice to the nacent DM, I was able to divine some kind of playability out of the thing, and so it was for quite a while until I had an amalgam of rulebooks, including but not limited to a [b]DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE[/B], [B]MONSTER MANUAL[/B], [B]MONSTER MANUAL II[/B] and [b]DEITIES & DEMIGODS[/B], occasionally using my copies of the Dave Cook/Tom Moldvay edits of basic [b]D&D[/B] as a guide for the things I was missing (e.g., a [b]PLAYERS HANDBOOK[/b]. I also didn't have many modules. The gratis copies of [b]X1 THE ISLE OF DREAD[/B] and [b]B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS[/B] (now made confusing by the shift of rules from Dr. Holmes' version to Mr. Moldvay's edit), and a copy of [b]A1 SLAVE PITS OF THE UNDERCITY[/b]. I only played a tiny bit, and the group I did game with was, to be very frank, completely :):):):)ed in the head - but that's a story for another time. Point being, in '99 I'd gathered up what I'd missed out on and the things that I'd had, and I found it all as awesome as I'd hoped and remembered. Art, rules, modules, all. [/font] [/QUOTE]
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