First exposure with anything from the D&D universe?
Two of my earliest childhood memories comes from D&D.
Firstly would be the early 80s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. I wasn't alive when it originally aired but here in Australia they used to repeat it in the early mornings before school. I've since re-watched all the episodes to refresh my memory but the roller-coaster introduction has always been firmly implanted in my mind. As a kid I used to be a sucker for Bobby the barbarian and his orphan unicorn pet, but looking back the real star of the show Eric.
My recent run through in the Black Pits had a party of Hank (archer), Eric (cavalier), Diana (acrobat), Presto (mage), Shiela (thief) and Bobby (barbarian).
Secondly would be the Hillsfar computer game from 1989, I used to play it not knowing what exactly was going on. Probably haven't touched it since the mid 90s. I still remember having to jump over obstacles on horseback, the Colosseum in the top right of the city map and being caught by guards after frantically wandering around a maze. I'm tempted right now to give it another go.
Firstly would be the early 80s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. I wasn't alive when it originally aired but here in Australia they used to repeat it in the early mornings before school. I've since re-watched all the episodes to refresh my memory but the roller-coaster introduction has always been firmly implanted in my mind. As a kid I used to be a sucker for Bobby the barbarian and his orphan unicorn pet, but looking back the real star of the show Eric.
My recent run through in the Black Pits had a party of Hank (archer), Eric (cavalier), Diana (acrobat), Presto (mage), Shiela (thief) and Bobby (barbarian).
Secondly would be the Hillsfar computer game from 1989, I used to play it not knowing what exactly was going on. Probably haven't touched it since the mid 90s. I still remember having to jump over obstacles on horseback, the Colosseum in the top right of the city map and being caught by guards after frantically wandering around a maze. I'm tempted right now to give it another go.
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Some of the episodes are quite ridiculous. Like a Beholder being defeated because of a flower, an army of orcs defeated by a colony of Care Bear/Ewok hybrids and the thief heroine with the power to become invisible only ever uses it to be the first one to run away. Still it's a pretty good show considering the time it was made.
Elmore's illustration and cool example campaign which features fighter meets female cleric and defeat or charmed by evil mage and retrieve cleric corpse. It was cool.
And dice set was coool too.
A few years later, I went to spend a couple of weeks at his house and he introduced me to this new computer game he was playing... it was called Baldur's Gate.
I guess I would have been 6 or 7 when I started, so i've been playing D&D for 20+ years. Randall The Raven (ranger) and Tyr Re'Ling (paladin) were among my first characters.