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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1762307" data-attributes="member: 3400">I started playing back in Summer 1981. My friend had gotten the Basic box set (the last one before the red box came out) for Christmas after having played it with some older friends in the local Boy Scout troop. He brought the books and explained the rules to me on the bus before school.He loaned me the set and I worked up a party of 6 characters. Then we met at his house and played with me running all 6 characters. We lived out in the sticks and other players were scarce in our neighborhood. I had a pretty broad mix of characters, all of them with names pulled from John Carter of Mars stories. They went through a pretty basic, if largely random, dungeon. They fought a variety of monsters, including some way to powerful for 1st level characters. The  party slowly whittled down in size, until it was down to 2. They continued to loot the dungeon until the cleric, Tars Tarkas, died, leaving Carthoris the fighter to emerge alone, having rising to 2nd level, and armed with Gauntlets of Ogre Power and a magic sword.I never really played that character much after that. My friend was gone much of the summer after that day so I started up with another 2 of our friends and a recently acquired red box and started DMing on my own. We had a long adventure through Keep on the Borderlands.</blockquote>