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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9083458" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Back in the early '80's when I was eight, one of my younger brother's friends from school was coming over to the house to hang out. Since the kid needed a ride, his older brother who had just gotten his license got tapped to drive him. Stuck at our house for a few hours with younger kids, he brought his blue-box Basic set and some other stuff with him to work on a campaign or something.Since I happened to be a fairly precocious kid and was asking all sorts of intelligent questions, he decided to run me and our younger brothers through a basic adventure.As soon as I found out that I could set things on fire in the game, I immediately spent half my gold on oil and torches, lol. Any time we killed some monsters we'd pile up the corpses and light them up.When I was ten, I got the magenta-box Basic set for myself and have been playing ever since.When I was fifteen, a new family moved into the neighborhood, and the older of the two kids (he was seventeen) painted minis. He sold me two miniatures he'd painted for $5 and told me I could paint minis with my Testors enamels I had for painting plastic models.I still have those two miniatures...[ATTACH=full]291516[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 9083458, member: 6750306"] Back in the early '80's when I was eight, one of my younger brother's friends from school was coming over to the house to hang out. Since the kid needed a ride, his older brother who had just gotten his license got tapped to drive him. Stuck at our house for a few hours with younger kids, he brought his blue-box Basic set and some other stuff with him to work on a campaign or something. Since I happened to be a fairly precocious kid and was asking all sorts of intelligent questions, he decided to run me and our younger brothers through a basic adventure. As soon as I found out that I could set things on fire in the game, I immediately spent half my gold on oil and torches, lol. Any time we killed some monsters we'd pile up the corpses and light them up. When I was ten, I got the magenta-box Basic set for myself and have been playing ever since. When I was fifteen, a new family moved into the neighborhood, and the older of the two kids (he was seventeen) painted minis. He sold me two miniatures he'd painted for $5 and told me I could paint minis with my Testors enamels I had for painting plastic models. I still have those two miniatures... [ATTACH type="full" width="185px" alt="20220828_171428.jpg"]291516[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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