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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pierce" data-source="post: 1763210" data-attributes="member: 12161">I vaguely remember the chest with a cat guardian being a trap in some module.  If you kill the cat, it comes back as a bigger cat.  You have to kill it 9 times and it gets progressively bigger each time.  By the end, the thing is as big as an ancient dragon or something.  That always stuck with me as a cool trap.  I can't remember now if there was an easier way around it (feed the first cat some catnip?)Anywho, my first time was in 79.  I was 7 or 8 and my dad and one of his buddies brought home the Blue Box printing (79 edition).  We spent that first night reading through the rules and trying to figure out the game.  IIRC, that following weekend was the first game.  My dad's friend DMed and there were four or five of us kids as players.  My first character was a halfling (were they halflings then or hobbits?  anyway, the small people).  We played Keep on the Borderlands.  I don't remember much other than my character was pretty much crap.  However, he did end up with the killing blow on the ogre.  He died soon after, but I was soooooo excited about that kill that I was hooked.I played constantly until roughly Junior/Senior year in HS, then I got too cool. Actually, it coincided with my first car and girlfriend. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I finally realized back in 2000 that I was just cool enough to start playing again.  I mentioned that I used to play to my good friend (whom I met as an adult) - he mentioned that he had too and was also itching to start playing again.  We picked up just as 3E was coming out and have been playing weekly ever since.I love this game.</blockquote>

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