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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 239707" data-attributes="member: 4826">Winter '78. I was fourteen, a wargaming nut and an outright nerd, though I didn't know it. Fortunately, I had two good friends who were also nerds and they had big brothers who were nerds, too, D&D-playing nerds at that. When one of these friends mentioned Dungeons and Dragons I remember being highly suspicious; his explanation of it was intriguing but I still didn't get it.My friend knew I was an SF nut, however, so he lent me a little black box covered in text which began, "Mayday! Mayday! This is Free Trader Beowulfe..." It was, of course, Traveller and it blew me completely away. The following weekend I was invited to my first game of AD&D. The DM (my other good friend) gave me a monk character to play and my more enlightened friend played his magic user. I remember sheets of graph paper, much being said that I didn't understand and the two of us getting into in this protracted fight with a bone devil that had the temerity to be blinking in and out of existence.Afterwards, I borrowed a PHB. Winters stopped being dull. The rest is a blur.Ranes(Forgive the trainspotting minutiae, trivia fans but if I don't point this out, someone else will: the red box was not "OD&D". Interested parties check out <a href="http://www.acaeum.com." target="_blank">www.acaeum.com.</a>)</blockquote>