#RPGaDay2023 - Day 2 - First RPG Gamemaster

Onto Day 2 of #RPGaDay2023. One day of promoting role-playing games down, thirty more to go!

For each day I'll be answering the question provided, and for fun, review how I answered a similar question during #RPGaDay a decade ago.  Scout's Honor, I have not peeked at the older answer.

Day 2's prompt is "First RPG Gamemaster"

In my ten-year retrospective from Day 1, I mentioned my friend Charles running me through my first pseudo-RPG, as well as the large group game of Paranoia later.   However, my cousin Ben factors in the equation somehow. 

Between my session of Battle Road and my Paranoia game, I picked up the classic D&D Menzter "Red Box" Basic Set, and somewhere on the timeline I picked up a copy of B1-9 In Search of Adventure

My cousins from Maine were visiting from Maine, and in the midst of an absolutely miserably rainy Summer week, Ben ran me through Castle Caldwell and the crypt below, actually explaining rules as I murdered everything with my three fighter party (save the Chaotic priestess, I let her go for some odd reason).  

Ten Years Ago Retrospective:  Day 2 of #RPGaDay from a decade ago was actually "First RPG Gamemastered"   I wrote all about my Temple of Elemental Evil AD&D game I ran, until I realized I ran a 1-on-1 game for a kid named Paul using Gygar's Castle from the Red Box.  I can probably blame Ben for inspiring me to run that, even if things didn't work out.