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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 8049704" data-attributes="member: 6803664">I don't know, 3 of us, all average kids (according to our report cards) in the 9-11 year old range, had no trouble starting cold with those in 1980/81.Myself, my brother &amp; our cousin in the days between Christmas '80 &amp; New Years.&nbsp; 0xp.&nbsp; Knew no one else who played.&nbsp; My brother &amp; cousin had never even heard of the game.&nbsp; Ripped the wrapping paper off, realized there was more reading to be done than XMas day would allow for, started playing a few days later.1 Lv0 DM, two elves &amp; a 1/2ling + The Keep on the Borderlands.Some weeks later we added our friend Jimmy (I'll be charitable &amp; call him average as well).&nbsp; We handed him the Basic book at school so he could give it a read before coming over on Sat.&nbsp; He understood it.&nbsp; He made a fighter.Now there was some brief confusion concerning the lack of a board....&nbsp; But that seemed to be something we could work around.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Eventually we figured out that we were indeed doing it right.&nbsp; Or right enough.A few years later we met Aaron.&nbsp; He had the &quot;Red Box&quot; with the Elmore cover.&nbsp; He too started completely cold.&nbsp; He played the solo intro adventure &amp; figured it out in a vacuum (his sister had 0 interest).&nbsp; He thought he was bringing some new game over.&nbsp; He discovered that we'd already deciphered 1e about a year prior.&nbsp; He caught on to 1e pretty quick, rolling up a Dwarf Fighter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ccs, post: 8049704, member: 6803664"] I don't know, 3 of us, all average kids [SIZE=2](according to our report cards)[/SIZE] in the 9-11 year old range, had no trouble starting cold with those in 1980/81. Myself, my brother & our cousin in the days between Christmas '80 & New Years. 0xp. Knew no one else who played. My brother & cousin had never even heard of the game. Ripped the wrapping paper off, realized there was more reading to be done than XMas day would allow for, started playing a few days later. 1 Lv0 DM, two elves & a 1/2ling + [I]The Keep on the Borderlands.[/I] Some weeks later we added our friend Jimmy (I'll be charitable & call him average as well). We handed him the Basic book at school so he could give it a read before coming over on Sat. He understood it. He made a fighter. Now there [I]was[/I] some brief confusion concerning the lack of a board.... But that seemed to be something we could work around. :) Eventually we figured out that we were indeed doing it right. Or right enough. A few years later we met Aaron. He had the "Red Box" with the Elmore cover. He too started completely cold. He played the solo intro adventure & figured it out in a vacuum (his sister had 0 interest). He thought he was bringing some new game over. He discovered that we'd already deciphered 1e about a year prior. He caught on to 1e pretty quick, rolling up a Dwarf Fighter. [/QUOTE]

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