How old were you when your first GMed an RPG?

Ancalagon · Apr 3, 2018

PieAndDragon said:
I was 11 or 12 and it was Dungeoneer (from the Fighting Fantasy books).

Same! We were 12-13 and we used that system - aah, good old advanced fighting fantasy, I sometimes wish I could just fix the issues in that system and use that... ah well.

After a year or perhaps 2 of that, we switched to 2nd ed.

Looking back, some of my adventures were... pretty horrid :/

SpellJammer16 · Apr 3, 2018

Purple.
started with B2 but I mostly ran ADD 1e.. mostly reusing the castle in Ravenloft everywhere I could lol... and Dragonlance... also some Ghostbusters in '86

aramis erak · Apr 10, 2018

Ancalagon said:
Same! We were 12-13 and we used that system - aah, good old advanced fighting fantasy, I sometimes wish I could just fix the issues in that system and use that... ah well.

After a year or perhaps 2 of that, we switched to 2nd ed.

Looking back, some of my adventures were... pretty horrid :/

AFF is again available... https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse...ategory/1684_25223/Advanced-Fighting-Fantasy?

Ancalagon · Apr 11, 2018

aramis erak said:
AFF is again available... https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse...ategory/1684_25223/Advanced-Fighting-Fantasy?

Ah but did they fix things?

Psion · Apr 11, 2018

Morrus said:
I was 12. How about you?

12.

aramis erak · Apr 11, 2018

Ancalagon said:
Ah but did they fix things?

No clue. that edition was the first one i've read.

thom_likes_gaming · Apr 11, 2018

Morrus said:
I was 12. How about you?

Same here.

Ancalagon · Apr 11, 2018

aramis erak said:
No clue. that edition was the first one i've read.

Some of the problems:

- Skill was super duper important. Maxing it out was *the* way to go
- Monsters didn't have weapon skills (only base skills) which made them too easy to defeat
- Spells cost HP to use. Healing spells gave you HP. So you could cast all day long
- Learning spells lowered your skill score. This resulted in a wizard being a poor combatant (this is good) but also terrible at things like knowledge skills (not so good).
- The strength skill was OP and increased your damage by almost 50% if you were a fighter.