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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 6251698" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>In 1979, at National Wildlife Federation summer camp in North Carolina, a kid in my cabin had the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook and, at a picnic table outside one afternoon, helped several of us create a group (I'm pretty sure I was a half-elf ranger, since I made several more of them over the next few years) and ran us through the "adventure" on the cover of the book. I was the only one to avoid being slaughtered by the lizardmen in their temple, although the adventure ended with me hiding around a corridor, trying to figure out how I was going to escape.</p><p></p><p>My family moved after camp that summer (my parents needed us out of the house to pack everything up without us being underfoot) and in our new town, we found an experienced middle school DM and a family of kids up for playing. We played AD&D (with Basic and Expert modules as well), Villains & Vigilantes, experimented with Runequest and Traveller and even Toon.</p><p></p><p>My brother and I played two-person games once we moved again, and I mostly drifted away from it until after college. I started an online game via Java chat window embedded on my home page with some friends, playing 2E D&D (and using stuff from the 2E Diablo adaptation, probably making me the only person to have used that stuff) online for a few months, until we heard about a new edition coming, which I followed closely on Eric Noah's site.</p><p></p><p>Another group wanted to start playing D&D with the third edition, but this time, we were wanting to use this new Ptolus book I'd preordered. But we started a warm-up campaign at the other end of the empire, before the book came out, intending to shut it down and switch over to Ptolus once I had the book in my hot little hands. Eight years later, that campaign is <em>just</em> wrapping up now. The next campaign will be set in Ptolus, although it'll likely be run in Castles & Crusades, which brings back the 1E flavor I started off with and many of the D20 improvements under the hood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 6251698, member: 11760"] In 1979, at National Wildlife Federation summer camp in North Carolina, a kid in my cabin had the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook and, at a picnic table outside one afternoon, helped several of us create a group (I'm pretty sure I was a half-elf ranger, since I made several more of them over the next few years) and ran us through the "adventure" on the cover of the book. I was the only one to avoid being slaughtered by the lizardmen in their temple, although the adventure ended with me hiding around a corridor, trying to figure out how I was going to escape. My family moved after camp that summer (my parents needed us out of the house to pack everything up without us being underfoot) and in our new town, we found an experienced middle school DM and a family of kids up for playing. We played AD&D (with Basic and Expert modules as well), Villains & Vigilantes, experimented with Runequest and Traveller and even Toon. My brother and I played two-person games once we moved again, and I mostly drifted away from it until after college. I started an online game via Java chat window embedded on my home page with some friends, playing 2E D&D (and using stuff from the 2E Diablo adaptation, probably making me the only person to have used that stuff) online for a few months, until we heard about a new edition coming, which I followed closely on Eric Noah's site. Another group wanted to start playing D&D with the third edition, but this time, we were wanting to use this new Ptolus book I'd preordered. But we started a warm-up campaign at the other end of the empire, before the book came out, intending to shut it down and switch over to Ptolus once I had the book in my hot little hands. Eight years later, that campaign is [i]just[/i] wrapping up now. The next campaign will be set in Ptolus, although it'll likely be run in Castles & Crusades, which brings back the 1E flavor I started off with and many of the D20 improvements under the hood. [/QUOTE]
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