IntroductionToD&D

My Introduction to Dungeons & Dragons

Blame my cousin Daniel Glenn.  I remember going to his apartment near D.C. and having lamb.  He had been back from the military and told me of his time in Korea and a game that he and his friends played that used their imagination and dice that was based on storytelling.  He went on to tell me a story of being in a 10x10 corridor after searching a room in a dungeon underground, how they had spiked the door shut to prevent enemies from coming in from behind them.  As they started down the corridor one of them noticed something ahead in the gloom.  A cube, that filled the entire hallway was undulating towards them, the bones of previous meals still floating within its mass.  "A Gelatinous Cube" Daniel said, it absorbs you alive..., and how his party both prepared to do battle with it, while 2 of their members tried to remove those spikes...<
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Well, I was hooked.  But, having little to no funds, I really didn't have a lot of options.  Sometime later, I came upon Games Magazine, which was a periodical that showcased crosswords, mind-teasers and other types of games while also having articles on board gaming, etc.  In one issue, the below I found and absorbed, re-read, introduced me to not only playing but DMing the game.