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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2574875" data-attributes="member: 1656">Yup.  Both my parents started playing 1E AD&D in about 1980 - they played weekly on Friday or Saturday evenings.  My sister and I were carted along to their sessions, and we'd generally sit up and listen until we fell asleep.  (Well, they started playing about the time she was born, so I guess she didn't do much sitting up at first.)To this day, I can generally fall asleep anywhere - light and noise doesn't bother me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I had most of the 1E Core Rules effectively memorised by the time I was 6 (1983ish).  My mother ran me through a modified solo version of Palace of the Silver Princess, and then I joined my parents' group.  Looking back, I just can't fathom why a group of twenty/thirty-somethings would let a 6 year-old play, but they did!My primary memory from that first adventure was having my Ftr-1 survive in a party of 7th-levellers, right up to the fight with the BBEG at the end.  He opened with a fireball; I successfully saved, and half damage put me at -13 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I never DM'd for that group, but I have subsequently DM'd a group that also includes my parents.  And, in fact, they're playing in the same 3.5 campaign I'm playing in at present...-Hyp.</blockquote>

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