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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6208742" data-attributes="member: 42582">1982, Moldvay Basic. I went on to Expert by the end of the year, and then on to AD&D in 1984.My brother and I taught ourselves the game from the Moldvay rulebook.We already had a copy of Traveller, but had found that impenetrable - we could generate PCs, but didn't know what to do with them. We knew that D&D was the same sort of game - perhaps from ET, or from ads in the back of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks - and I remember insisting to my brother that D&D would make more sense, but he expressed doubt about this. I was right - Moldvay Basic had excellent GMing advice, and also examples of GM prep and of play, that made it clear how the game was actually to be used by the players.I ran the first dungeon, with a blue dragon at the end of it. Of my brother's 14 1st level PCs - named after the dwarves + Bilbo - only one survived; but he went on to greater glory. (In my view that was a flaw in Moldvay Basic - that it made dragons such iconic creatures, but didn't support the use of them as opponents for its PCs.)</blockquote>