How did you find EN World?

HellHound

ENnies winner and NOT Scrappy Doo

• Dec 9, 2002

• #51

I checked "migrated".

I found Eric's site via search engine.

I only got interested in 3e after the release of the core books... so that would be Christmas 2000. I had stopped playing D&D just after the release of 2e (never bought it) and had been running an OD&D campaign for a while and though that 3e sounded like my idea of a good time.

My wife ordered the core books for me for christmas, and I started reading what was available for it on the web so far. Eric Noah's archived news let me read a lot about the material in the books prior to getting them.

I started a fan site (called "The Iron Keep").

It got a few hits here and there.

Then I scooped my fansite on Eric's news... and WHAM, three to five thousand hits a day.

And I stuck.

 

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Olive

Explorer

• Dec 9, 2002

• #52

migrated, referred to eric's by a friend.

i was just remembering the sinking feeling i got when i saw eric was closing, and how much better i felt when morrus said he was reopening it...
thanks to the both of yas...

 

LGodamus

First Post

• Dec 9, 2002

• #53

I have been a dedicated lurker here since early 2000....wow time really slips by quickly.

 

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smetzger

Explorer

• Dec 9, 2002

• #54

From Eric's sight of course.

A more interesting question for the old timers. How did you find Eric's sight?

I believe I found Eric's sight from rec.games.frp.dnd but it may have been from WOTC boards, anyone remember Synaptic Dragon and Balsamic Dragon? I started reading his news page pretty much from the beginning, there weren't a whole lot of surprises when I got my PHB the day it came out
I didn't start posting to Eric's sight until WOTC's boards went down, for a month or more and Deja News folded the same month. Thus, if you didn't have a news feed there was no place to post except Eric's.

 

Negative Zero

First Post

• Dec 9, 2002

• #55

i was part of the massive exodus from Eric's site, which i'd found by search engine a few weeks before it went kaput.

~NegZ

 

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Broken Fang

First Post

• Dec 10, 2002

• #56

Came over from Eric's site...can't remember how I got to his site though. Old age stinks!

 

the Jester

Legend

• Dec 10, 2002

• #57

smetzger said:

I believe I found Eric's sight from rec.games.frp.dnd but it may have been from WOTC boards, anyone remember Synaptic Dragon and Balsamic Dragon?

Click to expand...

Yes I do, as a matter of fact!

I believe it was the wotc mailing list.

 

GrayIguana

First Post

• Dec 10, 2002

• #58

Just so you have the info Morrus. I checked other publisher as I found your link at Monte Cook's site. I check the news here regularly, and then found the message boards. Though I normally lurk more than post, I have enjoyed a lot of the information I've found here.

 

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Cutty Sark

First Post

• Dec 10, 2002

• #59

I hadn't played D&D for years and I was the GM for a game of Shadowrun that some of my friends wanted to start. I was browsing around what is now dumpshock.com - the Shadowrun equivalent of these boards. I think it was the Deep Resonance forums then. Doesn't matter. I found a thread about D&D, which was odd, and I read it. It was odd. No one said anything about THAC0. It took me about thirteen posts to decide that they were talking about a new game. It had been out for a while, and somebody linked to the ENWorld site. I read stuff on the boards for at least three hours, and the next day I made a trip to the bookstore and then called my friends to tell them there was no way in hell we were playing Shadowrun that weekend.

 

Eosin the Red

First Post

• Dec 10, 2002

• #60

Like some others, I had actually stopped playing D&D and was primarily a HERO kinda guy. I remember reading somewhere (Greytalk?) that a new edition was coming out, so I thought I would see what it was about.

I was (still am) a computer dunce - for the longest time I did not know what a message board was, eventually after seeing hints for months on the front page and the tangent parts of the site - I figured out how to get in. The board was one of those tree type horrid things that I still can't follow. I could not figure out how to register, so I just watched.

Embarassing story - I sent Eric an e-mail once asking him to post something for me because I could not figure the dang thing out! Within 30 min of sending said e-mail, I discovered the register process. I thought it was some kind of members only thing.