soooo many memories

[alsih2o]

on a recent trip home i was asked by my father to finally get all "my crap" out of his basement.

i found this a reasonable request, as i am now 34 and have a bigger house than him, and set about seperating "why did i keep this?" from "wow, thank goodness i kept this!"

best find- my red basic d+d book. i also found a warhammer book i never remeber owning but that little red paperback literally flooded me with emmories of early gaming....

big 1 in the corner, that dragon emerging form a green pool and the dude with the winged helmet and bronze spear. unfortunately i couldn't find that crappy plastic die, but this was enough.

 

[diaglo]

...unfortunately i couldn't find that ...die, but this was enough.

more than enough if you want to play something closer to real D&D

 

[Dimwhit]

There was something so wonderfully pure and simple about the original basic set. I miss that game. (Not that I'm don't completely enjoy it now!)

 

[MerakSpielman]

Yeah... *sighs wistfully* remember when there was no bitching about balance, and all characters were carbon copies of each other so you didn't care when they died? It was just a game, like monopoly - except cool.

I made a first level cleric for my first game. You couldn't cast spells at first level as a cleric back then, and you had to roll your initial hit points. I rolled a "1" and it didn't occur to me to compain... rules were rules. My brother (a fighter) and I slew an ogre, but I was killed by a kobold a few minutes later. It was a real blast... My dad was DM. Those were the days all right.

 

[Henry]

As someone who re-discovered a Red Basic Book at Gencon this year (having thrown my ratty one away years ago), I realized just how much gaming history that book (and the expert one, which covered 4th to 14th level) really meant to me. My first experiences DM'ing were out of that book. (Conversely, I never played Basic D&D as a player, only as a DM; my first time being a player was AD&D some 8 years later.)

 

[Melkor]

I'm cooking up a weekend game right now using the Moldvay red Basic and blue Expert books. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.....It's all about "Shut up and play the game!" for me. Don't worry about balance, don't over analyze, don't ubermunchkin the rules. Just play.

 

[diaglo]

3d6 six times in order.

character in less than 10 minutes. viola....

 

[Storminator]

3d6 six times in order.

character in less than 10 minutes. viola....

It doesn't really take you 10 minutes does it? I used to put together whole parties in 10 minutes! And all on one sheet of paper at that!

PS

 

[diaglo]

less than a minute to put the stuff in order, etc...

upto 9 to come up with a name.

 

[Henry]

Random Basic D&D Name Generator: 1d20 + 1d6, six times, no swapping.

2=A
3=B
4=C
5=D
6=E
7=F
8=G
9=H
10=I
11=J
12=K
13=L
14=M
15=N
16=O
17=P
18=R
19=S
20=T
21=U
22=V
23=W
24=X
25=Y
26=Z

There you go! Perfectly playable name! Takes as much time to roll the name as the character!

Now, VKBCBR the Elf and JAMLPO the Fighter can take on the caves of SJRYJT together, and claim treasure, fame and fortune!