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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 239725" data-attributes="member: 447">Waxing NarrativeIt was 1978, and my brother and I were shopping with Mom and Dad. I don't remember who spotted the Monochrome Blue D&D Basic Box first, but we ended up with it because it seemed like a game that would "stimulate the kids' burgeoning imagination" or some such. We were 6 and 7, I think, so obviously that's not a direct quote. <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=":)" /> We had a heck of a time trying to decide what it was all about. When we had *that* figured out, we tried to tackle the problem of what happened when characters exceeded, what was it, 5th level? After another shopping trip, we had a new problem: trying to decide how this Dungeon Master's Guide thing related to the Blue Box. Not really knowing what to do with it all, I let the thing sort of fall by the wayside for a couple years (my brother kept busy churning out adventure ideas though), until I "inherited" a 9th level magic-user from the guys in my 5th-grade class.Something "clicked," and we just couldn't stop. By the time we had a couple issues of Dragon, three hardback books, and S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, we were well and truly hooked... on our way to countless one-player, one-DM sessions. We eventually joined a larger gaming group, but that's a bit beyond the scope of the question, right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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