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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 5047659" data-attributes="member: 11999">My first exposure to D&D was the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game cartridge for the Intellivision, in 1983 or 1984:<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Ad%26d_cm_cover.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Around the same time, or shortly after, my enjoyment of the Choose Your Own Adventure books led me to the similar Endless Quest books:<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Dungeon_of_Dread.jpg/180px-Dungeon_of_Dread.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />We moved into town (where we got more than two TV channels) in 1985, and I started watching the D&D cartoon along with the Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour.In 1986, I began to notice the ads in my G.I. Joe comics for the Dungeons & Dragons game boxed sets, and it looked intriguing; I believe the highlighted product in those ads was SET 5: Immortals Rules.At the winter Scout Camp in February 1987, one of the older boys had brought his D&D books and tried to get some of us to play.  I think he mostly had photocopies of sections of AD&D books, and he gave me an Illusionist character to play.  I had no idea what I was doing, but it was cool.  The next week, I made my first D&D purchase:<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddbasicset1rev.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Dungeons & Dragons SET 1: Basic Rules (Mentzer Edition)My life was forever changed  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />.  It took me some time to grasp the distinction between "Advanced D&D" and the D&D boxed sets, and at first I saw them as more or less interchangable. There are a number of images here, so please bear with me. I include them because these are the iconic images of what D&D is in my eyes, and seeing them instantly takes me back to being 12 years old and discovering the game for the first time.The other early acquistions were, in rough order:<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddxbox2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Dungeons & Dragons SET 2: Expert Rules (Mentzer Edition)<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddb7a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />B7 Rahasia<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/bestdragon1rev.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Best of The Dragon, Vol. 1<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddb10a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />B10 Night's Dark Terror<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddcm1a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />CM1 Test of the Warlords<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddx10a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />X10 Red Arrow, Black Shield (I think back to how horribly we mangled the pronunciation of the "Soderfjord Jarldoms")<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/dl11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />DL11 Dragons of Glory (missing the counters and might actually have just been the maps, but they were cool)<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/ddcbox.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Dungeons & Dragons SET 3: Companion Rules<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/s4a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (monsters & treasure book only; the 32-page adventure booklet was missing)<img src="http://www.waynesbooks.com/images/graphics/monstermanual12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual (my original one was a somewhat beat-up version with this cover.  My mom later found a set of the AD&D PH, MM, and DMG in excellent condition with their original covers -- along with a Field Folio -- which I received for Christmas in 1987)I also photocopied my friend's photocopies of the races, classes, and magic items sections from the AD&D Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Oriental Adventures, and Unearthed Arcana.  These supplemented my BECM rules until I eventually obtained the hardcover books that actually contained the full AD&D rules.</blockquote>

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