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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7445500" data-attributes="member: 6803664">We (myself/brother/cousin/+ friend) started with the Basic boxed set over Xmas vacation of 1980.Our only real stumbling block was that we spent the 1st several months looking for someplace that sold &quot;the board&quot;.&nbsp; We found dice.&nbsp; And miniatures.&nbsp; And modules.&nbsp; And 1e hardbacks....&nbsp; But no board.Eventually we found a helpful hobby shop where the guy behind the counter explained that the map inside the module WAS the board.&nbsp; But that only the DM saw it.&nbsp; And that the DM described the rooms to the other players.&nbsp; If they wanted a &quot;board??&nbsp; Then one of them had to draw it.&nbsp; &quot;OH!&quot; (so we were doing it mostly right.)And with a simple pack of graph paper we were now on the right path. Mom was so glad she didn't have to go looking through yet one more obscure store. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7445500, member: 6803664"] We (myself/brother/cousin/+ friend) started with the Basic boxed set over Xmas vacation of 1980. Our only real stumbling block was that we spent the 1st several months looking for someplace that sold "the board". We found dice. And miniatures. And modules. And 1e hardbacks.... But no board. Eventually we found a helpful hobby shop where the guy behind the counter explained that the map inside the module WAS the board. But that only the DM saw it. And that the DM described the rooms to the other players. If they wanted a "board?? Then one of them had to draw it. "OH!" [SIZE=1](so we [I]were[/I] doing it mostly right.)[/SIZE] And with a simple pack of graph paper we were now on the right path. Mom was so glad she didn't have to go looking through yet one more obscure store. :) [/QUOTE]

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