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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9081882" data-attributes="member: 7030563">This is exactly how I got started - my&nbsp; friend Erin's older brother and his friends would play and we would watch.&nbsp; I was 10 I think at the time, he wathced a lot more than I did since they were at his house a lot.After watching them one time I told my friend Erin I wish we could play and he said; &quot;we can I know how to play, I'll be the Dungeon Master&quot;.&nbsp; So we started our first game with me, my brother as players and my friend Erin as DM, playing red box and KOTB in the back of our station wagon on the way to the beach. Well it turns out that Erin had no idea at all how to play and had not read any of the books or the adventure (but he did use the map) and he was good at fooling us with big words like &quot;Elf&quot;, &quot;Orc&quot; and &quot;hit points&quot;. I still remember the adventure, we made characters, went around the keep shopping and getting outfitted then ran across some orcs (not in the actual adventure).&nbsp; Killed the Orcs using some combat rules he apparently up on the fly, then 3 more came in through a &quot;secret passage&quot; and they kept coming until they killed us.&nbsp; After that session, which ended in a TPK, I started reading the books since he left them at my house.&nbsp; Then I realized Erin really had no idea what he was doing.&nbsp; I did the next adventure as DM and the rest is history.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9081882, member: 7030563"] This is exactly how I got started - my friend Erin's older brother and his friends would play and we would watch. I was 10 I think at the time, he wathced a lot more than I did since they were at his house a lot. After watching them one time I told my friend Erin I wish we could play and he said; "we can I know how to play, I'll be the Dungeon Master". So we started our first game with me, my brother as players and my friend Erin as DM, playing red box and KOTB in the back of our station wagon on the way to the beach. Well it turns out that Erin had no idea at all how to play and had not read any of the books or the adventure (but he did use the map) and he was good at fooling us with big words like "Elf", "Orc" and "hit points". I still remember the adventure, we made characters, went around the keep shopping and getting outfitted then ran across some orcs (not in the actual adventure). Killed the Orcs using some combat rules he apparently up on the fly, then 3 more came in through a "secret passage" and they kept coming until they killed us. After that session, which ended in a TPK, I started reading the books since he left them at my house. Then I realized Erin really had no idea what he was doing. I did the next adventure as DM and the rest is history. [/QUOTE]

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