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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Lobo" data-source="post: 2040937" data-attributes="member: 7694"><p>1977 I'm pretty sure.</p><p></p><p>I got the Holmes set. My Dad was into LoTR at the time and I tried to get him to DM for me (or was it the other way around?). Anyway, I ended up getting some friends of mine together to play and it was great! We even "recorded" our characters on an old cassette tape player I had. I'll never forget the first playback of that tape when one of my friends started his recording of his character with (imagine a very nasaly voice on tape with the tone set to high):</p><p></p><p>"My name...is Gandor...."</p><p></p><p>We fell out - it was so nerdy and funny at the same time. Another high point was when the hardback AD&D rulebooks started coming out and I got the MM. I went to the next session (I was DM) and gravely looked at my players with the new book open in front of me and said something like:</p><p></p><p>"Guys I hate to say this but we've playing this game all wrong..."</p><p></p><p>Even though it was printed plain as day I just couldn't get the concept that Basic and "Advanced" D&D were two different games for some reason.</p><p></p><p>And then I went to College Park with my Dad (he was getting a Masters at the time) on a Saturday afternoon so he could get some books at the college bookstore. That was the longest ride in my life and I bought the DMG! College Park was only about an hour away from where we lived but man it was far. I started reading the DMG on the way back in the car and thought to myself "Man, I know we've kind of skimped on the rules here and there but we <em>really</em> have been playing this game all wrong!"</p><p></p><p>I used to write up my "modules" in loose-leaf three hole punch notebook paper. Then I would make cover and end sheets, put 'em in my Dad's vice on the workbench, and use Elmer's wood glue to make a "binding". I still have some of those today. Sheesh. That campaign went all the way from the blue book and lasted about three years with heavy gaming up to four times a week (we were in high school back then).</p><p></p><p>Those were fun times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr. Lobo, post: 2040937, member: 7694"] 1977 I'm pretty sure. I got the Holmes set. My Dad was into LoTR at the time and I tried to get him to DM for me (or was it the other way around?). Anyway, I ended up getting some friends of mine together to play and it was great! We even "recorded" our characters on an old cassette tape player I had. I'll never forget the first playback of that tape when one of my friends started his recording of his character with (imagine a very nasaly voice on tape with the tone set to high): "My name...is Gandor...." We fell out - it was so nerdy and funny at the same time. Another high point was when the hardback AD&D rulebooks started coming out and I got the MM. I went to the next session (I was DM) and gravely looked at my players with the new book open in front of me and said something like: "Guys I hate to say this but we've playing this game all wrong..." Even though it was printed plain as day I just couldn't get the concept that Basic and "Advanced" D&D were two different games for some reason. And then I went to College Park with my Dad (he was getting a Masters at the time) on a Saturday afternoon so he could get some books at the college bookstore. That was the longest ride in my life and I bought the DMG! College Park was only about an hour away from where we lived but man it was far. I started reading the DMG on the way back in the car and thought to myself "Man, I know we've kind of skimped on the rules here and there but we [I]really[/I] have been playing this game all wrong!" I used to write up my "modules" in loose-leaf three hole punch notebook paper. Then I would make cover and end sheets, put 'em in my Dad's vice on the workbench, and use Elmer's wood glue to make a "binding". I still have some of those today. Sheesh. That campaign went all the way from the blue book and lasted about three years with heavy gaming up to four times a week (we were in high school back then). Those were fun times. [/QUOTE]
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