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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EugeneZ" data-source="post: 5331195" data-attributes="member: 83605">I heard about DnD from a friend of mine on the middle-school bus. There was no way for me to get my hands on one of these books so I asked him to photocopy me the ADnD 2e PHB. A week later I held in my hand a few dozen sheets of paper with PHB pages photocopied on them. My friend had to pick and choose the "important" pages since he didn't want to copy the whole book. In retrospect, the critical facilities of a twelve-year-old with regards to PHB importance are questionable.Lunch was never the same again. I would literally bring a binder that contained:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Random printed pages from the PHB (nothing from the DMG or MM or whatever)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Secret of Bone Hill module, which I believe this friend had let me borrow</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Character sheets of the people who happened to sit next to me at lunch</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Graph paper</li> </ul>To this, we would add a ziploc bag filled with goldfish, which one of my friend's parents always packed in his lunch. The gold fish would be arranged on the graph paper or perhaps simply directly on the table, and each fish represented a character and/or monster. Without fail, within second of my announcing a monster to be at zero HP, it would be smashed to bits by someone's fist.Let's be clear: it's a stretch to qualify this as "playing DnD." I didn't know how to run modules, we barely knew how to create characters, and many of the DM instructions in The Secret of Bone Hill were a complete mystery to me. We literally just made up the game as we went along. But, on the off chance that this counts as playing DnD, then, yes -- we did so at the lunch table daily.Of course, the year we went to high school, 3e came out, I saved up enough to get the books, and we were far too cool-aware to bring out our books during THOSE lunches. No, instead I started a DnD club. I should add that this was a Catholic/Jesuit high school. I took a lot of verbal abuse for starting the club, but strangely, after a couple months, many of the kids calling us nerds actually rolled characters. By the time I graduated it was among the bigger of the school's clubs.</blockquote>

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