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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameDaddy" data-source="post: 9446381" data-attributes="member: 80711">Well... What you speak of in your blog wasn't the origin of roleplaying in D&D. I had already been playing and running games and adventures before any of these modules mentioned except B1 were released. I ran games and played using the original D&D rules written by both Gygax and Arneson, first with the Brown Box, then using White Box D&D which I still run and play to this day.Starting during Christmas Break of 1977 I started playing D&D. Our GM was a guy from College named Doug who had attended GenCon, and had brought D&D back to us in Colorado Springs. We played several Dungeon Adventures during Christmas Break in 1977.In my very first game of D&D, my Fighter was killed by a Giant Crab on a beach several days after our party had come upon a sleeping Dragon in a cavern which we slayed @ 1st level. There were five of us, and we had achieved total surprise. We had counted just over 47,000 gold pieces from the Dragons horde, along with some Magic Items (I had found +1 Magical Chainmail) but we didn't have any pack animals to haul the gold out of the dead Dragons Cavern, so we buried most the cache, and were traveling overland to a nearby town to buy horses and a wagon. My character had 600 Gold Pieces in two large sacks that he was carrying along with a full backpack with a few more gold coins, torches, rations, and a flint and tinder kit, along with a shield, and longsword, and two daggers, and we were walking down the beach towards a nearby town when Two Crabs ran out of the Ocean and attacked us. I died cut in half by the pincers of a Giant Crab. The gold was spilled and scattered in the sand on the beach... and I was totally hooked on playing this game.Prior to that, from about 1972 on I had been playing board war games of various sorts both Avalon Hill, and SPI. From 1977 onward though D&D and Roleplaying Games became an important part of my gaming.I started running D&D games in the Spring of 1978, and by then had acquired the Blue Book Boxed Basic set, in addition to a Brown Box and White Box set that I had already bought... and along with the B1 Adventure Into the Unknown started running games for my Middle School Friends. The first thing I did was designed my own Dungeon for my players to explore.  We all took turns doing so for each other designing fiendish traps and stocking our dungeons with all manner of vile monsters and wondrous treasures.. Then I designed a Fantasy Campaign World set on a distant Star, which was based on our real world and included the human races of Romans, Egyptians, and Europeans from the Middle Ages mostly set in a Mediterranean like setting with lots of Jungles. Think from the time of Charlemagne and King Arthur mixed with everything Fantasy from D&D. The second D&D Campaign World that I ran games in was the Judges Guild Wilderlands of High Fantasy which was the second actual published D&D Game setting after Empire of the Petal Throne. All the rest of the TSR published stuff came later, although the AD&D Monster Manual was available to us from about the time of GenCon in 1978. We eagerly looked forward to the TSR Players Handbook which reached our gaming stores in Colorado SPrings in the late summer of 79, and the Dungeon Masters Guide which hit our local FLGS in the Summer of 1980.D&D quickly became my favorite game, becuase there were more than one way to win. Roleplaying with Teamworkallowed us to explore alternative solutions to simply killing monsters, and developed a framework for problem solving in the real world that is still eminently useful for me , some 47 years laters.[ATTACH=full]378195[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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