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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 3006885" data-attributes="member: 775">I started playing in 1989 after by 10th birthday. My older brother wouldn't let me play before then because, well, those AD&D books were for ages 10 and up. I played a dwarf fighter named Havoc. I lived in either Safeton or Narwell on the Wild Coast. I heard rumors of monsters raiding villages from the forest to the north. Looking for the chance to earn some gold, I went to the village of Dukna. On the way there I was attacked by 2 kobolds---IT WAS SO MUCH FUN BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE! I didn't know that they were some of the weakest monsters in the game. When I made it to Dukna, the town lord hired me as a mercenary to clear out monsters raiding his town. I went out into the forest and ambushed a group of four orcs by hiding in the bushes and sniped at them using my crossbow. I got wounded and went back to town to rest (I think I had only 7hp total). A couple days later I ventured forth again. While I slept the town was raided again! The town lord was furious! So I went out once more. I saw four more orcs...and an ogre up the trail. So I ambushed them. I killed the orcs and lept on the ogre, chopping away at him with my axe. The ogre hit me with his fist and I was knocked down to 3hp. But I chopped off the ogre's head. That was the end of the first session. And I was hooked...BAD. I wanted my brother to run something the next time he came home from college. If I remember right, my brother made most of the die rolls and didn't often mention numbers and focused on the story, rather than on stats and such. For example, I didn't know that dwarves had bonuses to hit orcs and Ogres had trouble hitting them. My brother just rolled the dice behind his DM screen (the 1st Edition one, with the lizardmen, the fire-breathing dragon, the guy in chainmal protecting the woman behind him) and described the action.</blockquote>

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