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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7399863" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>I first rolled the dice in 1979. I've played in 5 different decades. </p><p></p><p>My best estimate puts me at over 10,000 hours of D&D played, and over 27,500 hours if you include planning and related activities (D&D video games, D&D miniatures games, D&D forum visiting, etc...). There are 8760 hours in a year. That puts me at about 1.25 years of D&D played, and 3 years of D&D activity in general. </p><p></p><p>I've played ~110 characters for more than 1 session (although more than a few of them were 'reboots' of a beloved character). </p><p></p><p>My longest continuously run character was an elven thief-magic user run from 1993 to 2003. He was in an AD&D campaign that started off as weekly in college and then slowed down to being played on the occasional weekends.</p><p></p><p>My favorite PC of all time was my first Forgotten Realms PC - The son of a Red Wizard of Thay, the evil Dryken stole a magic helmet that was being delivered to his father and discovered it was a Helm of Opposite Alignment. He went from CE to LG and proceeded to flee Thay before someone restored him to evil. He then proceeded to Dual Class to Wizard (changing his name to Myztek) after a near TPK and advanced rapidly. That instance of the FR is still being run by the DM somewhere in Texas, and Myztek is a prominent NPC. I occasionally get an email or text from my old friend asking me how Myztek would respond to a request from the PCs or to some major event in his Realms... something that always makes me smile. </p><p></p><p>I've bought too many books in every edition, but the true money sink for me has been in miniatures. I was spending nearly a thousand a year on miniatures during the DDM era... for nearly a decade. If you toss in the metal minis, the board games I bought for the minis, etc... Oh, vey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7399863, member: 2629"] I first rolled the dice in 1979. I've played in 5 different decades. My best estimate puts me at over 10,000 hours of D&D played, and over 27,500 hours if you include planning and related activities (D&D video games, D&D miniatures games, D&D forum visiting, etc...). There are 8760 hours in a year. That puts me at about 1.25 years of D&D played, and 3 years of D&D activity in general. I've played ~110 characters for more than 1 session (although more than a few of them were 'reboots' of a beloved character). My longest continuously run character was an elven thief-magic user run from 1993 to 2003. He was in an AD&D campaign that started off as weekly in college and then slowed down to being played on the occasional weekends. My favorite PC of all time was my first Forgotten Realms PC - The son of a Red Wizard of Thay, the evil Dryken stole a magic helmet that was being delivered to his father and discovered it was a Helm of Opposite Alignment. He went from CE to LG and proceeded to flee Thay before someone restored him to evil. He then proceeded to Dual Class to Wizard (changing his name to Myztek) after a near TPK and advanced rapidly. That instance of the FR is still being run by the DM somewhere in Texas, and Myztek is a prominent NPC. I occasionally get an email or text from my old friend asking me how Myztek would respond to a request from the PCs or to some major event in his Realms... something that always makes me smile. I've bought too many books in every edition, but the true money sink for me has been in miniatures. I was spending nearly a thousand a year on miniatures during the DDM era... for nearly a decade. If you toss in the metal minis, the board games I bought for the minis, etc... Oh, vey. [/QUOTE]
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