What was the first monster you killed in D&D?

[Wombat]

The records don't go back that far...

It was probably an orc or a goblin, but after 30 years, I simply have no notion.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It was a game held at a picnic table at National Wildlife Federation summer camp in North Carolina in the summer of 1979. It was an adventure loosely based (to put it mildly) on the cover of the original 1E Player's Handbook. The DM decided that it was an orcish shrine, and saw fit to pit two of us (I think I was an elf fighter) against six to eight orcs hanging out in the temple. We learned the value of stealth immediately. I did kill ONE orc, though, shortly after he'd chopped my partner in two.

 

[arwink]

Carrion Crawler, Red Boxed Set.

 

[Jdvn1]

It was an Ogre Mage and some lackeys. The lackeys were pirates, but I think they were hobgoblins, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, we killed a dragon a few session later.

 

[erian_7]

A lizardman (before there were "lizardfolk"). We landed on an island (the DM ran 1st level characters through module X1 Isle of Dread ) and were attacked by somewhere around 100 lizardmen. We were slaughtered wholesale, which probably should have made me think "Man, what a stupid game." But the DM gave me all his books after the game since he said he "didn't really get it" and here I am 20 years later...

 

[Inferno!]

I don't remember what I killed first. My first character was quickly dispatched by an owlbear. Have you seen the cover of Kenzer's Little Keep on the Borderlands? The halfling with a cloud of bloody red mist in place of a face is pretty much what happen to me.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'm the only who picked Ogre so far!

My first campaign as a player (I usually DM), back in 2nd edition, was being DMed by one of my usual players. He hated the death turnover at level 1, so we all started at level 2. My elven enchantress and her level 2 ranger buddy managed to defeat a gang of six ogres as our first fight. We hid and I cast the Sleep spell, (no save back then ^^) and then the ranger slit throats (we also tried to keep the ogres divided and guessing where we were in the trees). In 3.0, my first kill also happened to be an ogre, as I was guest-playing a paladin NPC for the DM in the middle of a dungeon, and an ogre happened to show up first. Coincidentally, those were the only two times that ogres have ever appeared in any campaign of which I was a part.

 

[Tolen Mar]

My first kill was a giant. We were playing during lunch in high school (it was the late 80's), and we were captured, and made to fight in an arena. The PC's see the doors open on the other end to see a giant and a horde of goblins.

I was playing an elven thief. I ran.

In the end, climbing out of the pit failed repeatedly, and the giant was coming after me, so I drew back my bow, and one crit later there was a dead giant in the pit.

Now, the second creature I killed was a human. I was an elven ranger (I had a thing for elves those days), and I made my way through the castle to the end where the big secret lay. There was one guard. One. I was using a staff, knocked his feet our from under him, then when he wouldnt talk, I thumped him in the throat. I didnt mean to kill him...honest. I just wanted him to talk...

 

[Shadowdancer]

My first character, a fighter, killed a skeleton. My character was armed with a crossbow, a dagger and a bastard sword. I learned an important lesson about the necessity of blunt weapons.

 

[Richards]

My first PC (I got to select from a batch of pregenerated AD&D characters that my cousins made) was a druid named "Jon" (they named all the PCs as well), and my first kill was a giant rat. And that was after I initially ran away from it. (Hey, it seemed the logical thing to do at the time.)

Johnathan