X Rounds of Combat

Day 14 - GUIDE I could write about the many Game Master's Guides but I will just tell you a story. In the early days we were playing something homebrewed loosely based on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Somehow, without internet, without contact with other groups, without even Dungeons and Dragons we were doing dungeon crawls, rolling for randomised encounters and such. We've been playing OSR / retro style because to us it was the intended way to do so. So, for one reason or another we are being recruited to help the local innkeeper. Something is in the wine cellars , he says. He saw a hole in the wall, something broke through. 1st edition D&D goblin. I love that image, I should get it tattooed or something I believe someone mentioned wine tasting at one point so the innkeeper wants to go as our " guide " and to watch the barrels. Passing through the basement and then the wine cellar is uneventful. We find a few emptied barrels but nothing more....

Let's see how far I can get. Day 1 - FIRST The first game I ever played AND GM'ed It was spring of 1998, my first year of high school, and with my classmates we have already heard of RPGs and managed to borrow a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook (Polish Edition).  WarHammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1st edition, Polish version There were 3 or 4 of us.  None of us had ever played an RPG (the closest thing was Talisman),  none of us had ever run a game.  That did not stop us. We played "The Oldenhaller Contract," the adventure from the book itself.  None of us had read it. I quickly read the introduction and ran it for a while. The guy who would become the GM of our group took over at one point and I played a character. It was fine because none of us knew what the adventure was going to be about.  We did not finish it.  I do not remember what it was about.  We had a blast and have been playing homebrew stuff slowly evol...