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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5045762" data-attributes="member: 59082">I first played D&amp;D at a Tibetan New Year festival in Boulder CO in 1981 or 1982, when some new friends pulled me into a VW bus and handed me a character sheet, which was like a parchment of pure gold. I was eight or nine years old. But I really struck it rich shortly thereafter when some of my older brother's friends, who had swapped D&amp;D for computer games, gifted me what was, at the time, the four core AD&amp;D books: DMG, PHB, MM, and Deities &amp; Demigods. More than any single book it was that last one--and the DMG a bit later on--that formed an impression on me, in particular the Melnibonean Mythos, but also the Norse, Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian, Arthurian, etc (I never cared much for Cthulhu).After that it was Tomb of Horrors, which had a huge impression on me, MM2 and FF, and then a couple years later the Dragonlance novels (although I never played the modules).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5045762, member: 59082"] I first played D&D at a Tibetan New Year festival in Boulder CO in 1981 or 1982, when some new friends pulled me into a VW bus and handed me a character sheet, which was like a parchment of pure gold. I was eight or nine years old. But I really struck it rich shortly thereafter when some of my older brother's friends, who had swapped D&D for computer games, gifted me what was, at the time, the four core AD&D books: DMG, PHB, MM, and Deities & Demigods. More than any single book it was that last one--and the DMG a bit later on--that formed an impression on me, in particular the Melnibonean Mythos, but also the Norse, Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian, Arthurian, etc (I never cared much for Cthulhu). After that it was Tomb of Horrors, which had a huge impression on me, MM2 and FF, and then a couple years later the Dragonlance novels (although I never played the modules). [/QUOTE]

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