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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 647377" data-attributes="member: 508">I was first introduced to AD&amp;D by my two cousins, who brought their books over to our house one summer day (they lived like an hour away) with a homemade dungeon and an assortment of pregenerated characters.&nbsp; So my first PC was not one that I had created myself, just one that I chose out of the available batch.&nbsp; He was a druid named Jon (real original, I know, but they had named the potential PCs as well), and I chose him not because I liked druids in particular, but because a) he was a human, and I didn't want to be anything &quot;sissy&quot; like an elf or a halfling <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, and b) his stats didn't completely suck.&nbsp; (They had created a random number generator to determine the potential PCs' stats, only instead of randomly determining numbers from 1-6 and adding them together, they just randomly determined numbers between 3 and 18.&nbsp; So the PCs we had to choose from had quite a few 3s and 4s...I think Jon's lowest was a 6.&nbsp; After the game was over, we had a little discussion about bell curves...)Anyway, it was a simple little game: we woke up in a dungeon and had to find the way out.&nbsp; Our first encounter was with 4 giant rats, and I had Jon run away at full speed (it seemed like a logical response), until my cousins informed me that was somewhat of a breech of adventurer etiquette...Good times.&nbsp; I don't have Jon's character sheet, though.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 647377, member: 508"] I was first introduced to AD&D by my two cousins, who brought their books over to our house one summer day (they lived like an hour away) with a homemade dungeon and an assortment of pregenerated characters. So my first PC was not one that I had created myself, just one that I chose out of the available batch. He was a druid named Jon (real original, I know, but they had named the potential PCs as well), and I chose him not because I liked druids in particular, but because a) he was a human, and I didn't want to be anything "sissy" like an elf or a halfling :), and b) his stats didn't completely suck. (They had created a random number generator to determine the potential PCs' stats, only instead of randomly determining numbers from 1-6 and adding them together, they just randomly determined numbers between 3 and 18. So the PCs we had to choose from had quite a few 3s and 4s...I think Jon's lowest was a 6. After the game was over, we had a little discussion about bell curves...) Anyway, it was a simple little game: we woke up in a dungeon and had to find the way out. Our first encounter was with 4 giant rats, and I had Jon run away at full speed (it seemed like a logical response), until my cousins informed me that was somewhat of a breech of adventurer etiquette... Good times. I don't have Jon's character sheet, though. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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