First post...
It was the spring of 1989, I think, and we played a homebrew system that a friend and I created (heavily influenced by Pool of Radiance and Bard's Tale). We wanted to play AD&D (2nd Edition), but my best friend's dad had seen Mazes & Monsters (the Tom Hanks movie) and forbade him from playing D&D.
I played an evil ranger in a party of about six. I can't remember his name, but I do remember that the DM had us begin completely destitute. We had to fight it out in the alleys of a city with delirious beggars and mad dogs barefisted for a few coppers in the hopes that one day we'd be able to afford arms and armor.
I remember that most of our efforts were in fooling our paladin so that we could carry out evil schemes.
Good times. We gradually bought 2nd Edition books but had to hide them under chairs whenever his parents came around. (And we eventually made enough money to equip ourselves.)