Once, long ago..
It was around this time, some 35 years ago, that I first started playing AD&D, in the eighth grade. My first exposure to the game was about two or three years earlier when I saw an article in Time magazine, of all places, that talked about Gary Gygax and his creation. Dozens of miniatures were shown as part of the photo layout for the article, and I was immediately hooked, and was on the look out for anyone who played this game. As it happened, I was at recess one late autumn day and I saw a kid sitting by himself reading a book. The fact that someone was reading a book at recess was enough to draw my attention back then, and I proceeded to see what gives. We introduced ourselves and started chatting. He was looking at the Monster Manual, "one of the D&D books" as he stated. "These were the guys you had to kill so you could take their treasure" he went on to tell me. "How do you do that" I asked, to which he responded "I don't really k