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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StalkingBlue" data-source="post: 1517873" data-attributes="member: 645">Two first times for me.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> First first time was in the late Seventies or very early Eighties - almost lost in the mists of time, and it wasn't DnD at all but Dark Eye, a then brand new German RPG system.  I remember hunching over a coffee table with sheets of A4 grid paper with dungeon corridors and rooms scrawled on them, puzzling over monster descriptions and stuff.  I remember my mum, who'd bought us the game box for Christmas, hadn't seen fit to invest in dice as well (What?!?! That much money for just half a dozen dice? Ridiculous.), so we were having to improvise on the die rolls with bunches of d6's, which she had bought.   :\  I remember my little brother sitting on the couch all by himself shaking his head sadly after all of us had lost a ton of PCs a the entrance to the first room of his dungeon, saying, "Maybe I shouldn't have put all the monsters in the very first room?..."   <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=":)" /> Second first time was just after the PHB and MM 3rd ed. came out.  I'd bought the PHB and asked a good friend of mine (who'd never gamed before but was always interested in new stuff) to help me puzzle through the rules.  We rolled up PCs and selected a monster from the MM to fight for fun.  I thought an orc would be about right, he insisted that the ogre made for a much more monstrous-looking monster.  I had a better grasp of the rules than he did so I made up a story around it all to give our PCs a chance:  we were in an arena fighting gladiator-style, and whenever a PC went unconscius he was insta-teleported out, healed up and dropped back into the fight after a round.  (groan)  It still took an eternity for the two of  us to whittle that ogre down, but we didn't lose spirit.  The good thing was that after that night, my friend said he'd had fun doing it and, "Why don't you make up a real story adventure so I can see what the real thing is like?"  So he became my first player in my first ever DnD game.  8)</blockquote>

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