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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2771138" data-attributes="member: 8447">Short Answer:&nbsp; I was the first one with the rules.Longer Answer:&nbsp; I had been playing miniatures wargaming and AH/SPI boardgames since about 1970 and while I liked many of the people I gamed with and loved painting (even though I was not very good at it), I hated and loathed the many arguments that the rules engendered.&nbsp; Then I got the July/August 1975 update of my Brookhurst Hobbies catalog.&nbsp; There was an ad for a new kind of wargame called &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot; -- (semi-quote) &quot;Apparently you do not need miniatures, only pencil &amp; paper.&nbsp; From the same folks who wrote Chainmail.&quot;&nbsp; Well, I liked Chainmail pretty well and was willing to throw in $10 on an experiment.Fast forward to Labor Day Weekend, 1975.I was (literally!) just walking out the door for some sort of Boy Scout Jamboree or other when the UPS truck pulled up.&nbsp; He handed me the package, I opened it, and immediately dove into this weird new concept of roleplaying games.&nbsp; The rest of the weekend, while everyone else was discussing CB radios (...and Convoy...), I was spouting off strange, incomprehensible blips about &quot;Armor Class&quot;, &quot;Hit Dice&quot;, and &quot;Ocher Jellies&quot;.&nbsp; Needless to say, no one knew what the hooey I was talking about...Since I had the rules, I had to set up the first game.&nbsp; It was very strange and ultimately not very memorable, but the rest of the gang was interested enough that I was soon at work creating complex complexes on sheets of 10-to-the-inch graph paper, ordering up Greyhawk, and otherwise learning what it meant to be a Dungeonmaster (subsequently GM).And as I already had the nickname of The Ref...&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 2771138, member: 8447"] Short Answer: I was the first one with the rules. Longer Answer: I had been playing miniatures wargaming and AH/SPI boardgames since about 1970 and while I liked many of the people I gamed with and loved painting (even though I was not very good at it), I hated and loathed the many arguments that the rules engendered. Then I got the July/August 1975 update of my Brookhurst Hobbies catalog. There was an ad for a new kind of wargame called "Dungeons & Dragons" -- (semi-quote) "Apparently you do not need miniatures, only pencil & paper. From the same folks who wrote [I]Chainmail[/I]." Well, I liked [I]Chainmail[/I] pretty well and was willing to throw in $10 on an experiment. Fast forward to Labor Day Weekend, 1975. I was (literally!) just walking out the door for some sort of Boy Scout Jamboree or other when the UPS truck pulled up. He handed me the package, I opened it, and immediately dove into this weird new concept of roleplaying games. The rest of the weekend, while everyone else was discussing CB radios (...and [I]Convoy[/I]...), I was spouting off strange, incomprehensible blips about "Armor Class", "Hit Dice", and "Ocher Jellies". Needless to say, no one knew what the hooey I was talking about... Since I had the rules, I had to set up the first game. It was very strange and ultimately not very memorable, but the rest of the gang was interested enough that I was soon at work creating complex complexes on sheets of 10-to-the-inch graph paper, ordering up [I]Greyhawk[/I], and otherwise learning what it meant to be a Dungeonmaster (subsequently GM). And as I already had the nickname of The Ref... ;) [/QUOTE]

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