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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 8231443" data-attributes="member: 6818233">Really? I first played in 1981, I was 15. In those days, TSR still did those big one-day tournament gaming events back then, and one was happening in my home town. I did not own any of the rules yet, so I ended up with the Basic box set of that time. Tournament uses pregens, so I don't have to make a character, but I read through the rules. Get to the event and dozens of tables going and everything is AD&amp;D. Look for gaming groups through my local comic shop and find people only playing AD&amp;D. Bought the PHB, eventually got rid of the useless box set, and never looked back. Plus, to a teenage boy at the time, why wouldn't everyone want to use the rules for advanced people? Why play something for basic people? It is funny that I still regret wasting that paper route money on the box set, when if I had waited to buy anything until after my first game, I could have just bought the PHB and started right.&nbsp;&nbsp; loledit: and writing all that out made me realize it is my 40th anniversary of starting to play any kind of tabletop RPG.&nbsp;&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 8231443, member: 6818233"] Really? I first played in 1981, I was 15. In those days, TSR still did those big one-day tournament gaming events back then, and one was happening in my home town. I did not own any of the rules yet, so I ended up with the Basic box set of that time. Tournament uses pregens, so I don't have to make a character, but I read through the rules. Get to the event and dozens of tables going and everything is AD&D. Look for gaming groups through my local comic shop and find people only playing AD&D. Bought the PHB, eventually got rid of the useless box set, and never looked back. Plus, to a teenage boy at the time, why wouldn't everyone want to use the rules for advanced people? Why play something for basic people? It is funny that I still regret wasting that paper route money on the box set, when if I had waited to buy anything until after my first game, I could have just bought the PHB and started right. lol edit: and writing all that out made me realize it is my 40th anniversary of starting to play any kind of tabletop RPG. :) [/QUOTE]

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