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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5362349" data-attributes="member: 92511">1981 or 82...dn't remember exactly, but I was around 10 with a family friend and his younger brother. We were playing from the Moldvay Basic set...I was a 1st level magic-user would just cast sleep at anything we encountered (we were kinda wingin' the rules that first game, so I was able to cast sleep as much as I wanted. haha) and then my friend's lizardman fighter walked up to the sleeping whatevers and stabbed them with his spear. I thiiiink we were working our way through Keep on the Borderlands, but I was only there for a few hours during a visit (our parents' were long time friends).But those few hours were all I needed, I was totally hooked.As I recall, my first rules/books of my own was the Mentzer (red box) set. Shortly followed by the blue-boxed Expert set and then I got the AD&D PHB, MM and DMG (figuring, confidently, the I had read through all of the Basic and Expert stuff and was ready for the "Advanced" material. <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" />The group I eventually found myself playing with played AD&D and then 2e, though I still picked up/received, as the years went on, the Companions (turquoise), Masters (black), Immortals (gold) D&D box sets.So, yeah...started 28, almost 29, years ago. Wow.</blockquote>

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