What Generation of D&D are you?

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Intermagus

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• Aug 18, 2002

• #1

1st Generation: Chainmail (original version), tabletop wargames, cardboard chits in a cup instead of dice rolling, approximately 1971 to 1973.

2nd Generation: introduction of 1E AD&D, approximately 1976 up to 1979.

3rd Generation: introduction of 2E AD&D, approximately 1985 to 1987.

4th Generation: introduction of 3E D&D and D20 system, 2000 to present.

 

Last edited: Aug 18, 2002

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Orco42

First Post

• Aug 18, 2002

• #2

3.5

I started with 2e in 1994.

 

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Intermagus

First Post

• Aug 18, 2002

• #3

Yeah.....I'm about the same way. I started 1e back in 1989, but found and started playing 2e very soon afterward.

 

Dr. Zoom

First Post

• Aug 18, 2002

• #4

I first played D&D in 1980. I remember going out and buying the PH with my own hard earned money (I was 13 and delivered newspapers). I soon bought a DMG and a MM and began running my own game. IIRC, that was a very Monty Haul campaign. But it was loads of fun for a bunch of kids. My games are nothing like those anymore, but they are still loads of fun. I guess that is all that matters.

Thanks Gary.

 

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James McMurray

First Post

• Aug 18, 2002

• #5

What about those of us who started between '79 and '85?

 

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Ashtal

Vengeance Bunny

• Aug 18, 2002

• #6

Yeah, I started in '83 with OD&D and then moved onto 1st Edition just before 2nd was phased in.

 

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hong

WotC's bitch

• Aug 18, 2002

• #7

Intermagus said:

1st Generation: Chainmail (original version), wargames, cardboard chits in a cup instead of dice rolling, approximately 1971 to 1973.

2nd Generation: introduction of 1E AD&D, approximately 1976 up to 1979.

3rd Generation: introduction of 2E AD&D, approximately 1985 to 1987.

4th Generation: introduction of 3E D&D and D20 system, 2000 to present.

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Your generations are a bit off, since 2E came out in 1989.

 

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Intermagus

First Post

• Aug 18, 2002

• #8

You're probably right, since my information base is tenuous. My readings of the histories may have been a little confused, but it said at right about 1985 2nd edition was being playtested by TSR.

Maybe? Close enough? Too late for me to fix it though. Sorry if the timeframes are a little off.

 

Tharkun

First Post

• Aug 18, 2002

• #9

I started playing and then like 2 yers later they switched editions on me! Gr...I'm not on your list though as I played right before DND3E

 

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cybernetic

Explorer

• Aug 18, 2002

• #10

as i was born in 1981 I guess I'm generation three....but I started playing 1st edition about the same time I could read