Not so much a new forum member as an old D&Der
kiwidoc
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I am new to this forum, but I've been role playing and D&Ding since forever .... I even played D&D before there was an AD&D! I've been BGing since the first game came out, and been part of other forums for almost as long. I even ran my own Forgotten Realms site and forum when I had money and my brain still worked 
I'm not actually boasting here ... what I'm actually doing is letting you know how old and decrepit I am.
I'm not actually boasting here ... what I'm actually doing is letting you know how old and decrepit I am. 11
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You can see my D&D/AD&D collections here: http://ladyrhianwriter.deviantart.com/gallery/38919912/My-Geek-Cred
My first boxed set was the blue cover one:
And it didn't even come with dice, it came with chits you cut out. The next version had dice… light sky blue ones with a white crayon you used to fill the numbers so they could be read. I also had the supplement 4 for the original white box set, which was about the gods.
And here is some art from X1 The Isle of Dread, which came with the Expert Set: This is the Phanaton, cat-like monkey creatures native to the jungles of the Isle. This module marks the first known publication of what became "The Known World" later on. The Isle was also relocated to Greyhawke, and appeared in the Savage Tide Adventure Path, along with an encounter in the XSOLO module "Lathan's Gold". (Incidentally, the ultimate monsters were the Kopru, who inhabited a flooded temple in the mountainous center of the Island- in the original module, at least.)
I started out as a wargamer (the only female wargamer in New Zealand at the time), and then moved on to RPGs as well. I used to have boxed sets of Traveller and Runequest - but lost them in a custody battle.
I also remember T&T, Tunnels and Trolls. And Toon. I played Toon at a convention once. A Cat and a Mouse find magic wands and have a duel. I played the cat and when the mouse buried me in whipped cream, I pointed my wand and said, "Cherries". That made the GM laugh, and I got points for it. I played "Rifts" once, but never really got into it. I played a game called "Merc", also at a convention (in West Point, NY), and survived the game.
http://www.amazon.com/MERC-Modern-Playing-Counter-Insurgency/dp/B000CIRA6W
I also had/have Grimtooth's Traps. There is a whole sequence of humiliating traps to make the player not want to talk about how they died… like the whipped cream pit- you drown in a vat of whipped cream (it's too light to float in/on and will still gum up your lungs like whoa!). Or the Hall of the Memorial Carpet- where you are locked into a room with a descending ceiling. If you don't manage to escape, you become part of the "carpet" that covers the floor.
@kiwidoc I never played it, but I remember the ads for the RPG in Dragon Magazine. I also remember the ads for "City-State of the Invincible Overlord". Also 1881, "Buck Rodgers in the XVIth Century", TORG, Shadowrun (which I *did* play, cutter