ENworlder: How long have you been gaming?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Since 1977. Not quite THE Old Coot, but old and cootish enough!

 

[vic20]

Joined a Wilderlands campaign setting game in 1979 that had been going for a while. The game was run by some folks that my mother knew. I was 8 years old, and had just finished my first reading of Lord of the Ring (minus that one chapter in book one that was basically people sitting in chairs and talking...).

My mother would have been 25 at the time, so that's probably roughly the age group. Some of them were part of a local juice co-op (Genesis Juice, Eugene, OR); otherwise I didn't know any of the "adults".

My best friend (age 9) also joined the group at the same time. I'll never forget the first time he rolled a d4 for his first-level Magic User hit points: it landed on its tip. Neither he or I had ever seen the die rolled, so we didn't know how to read it. Needless to say, the guy that was helping us make our characters immediately jumped up to go get the rest of the group from the other room where they were playing so they could witness. I've never seen a d4 land like that in 30 years since.

 

[Darrin Drader]

Methinks the poll numbers don't go high enough.

I'm on year 25 this year.

And thank you very much for making me feel old!

 

[vic20]

I've never seen a d4 land like that in 30 years since.

Today, I'd call that roll a "5" and move on.

 

[vic20]

Methinks the poll numbers don't go high enough.

There are numbers bigger than 25+?

 

[smdmcl]

I started in 1981 and have played pretty consistently since then. That'll make it 28 years sometime in 2009 which makes me feel old.

 

[sjmiller]

If you are talking RPGs, I started with my gift of the Traveller boxed set and Mercenary on Christmas 1979. So, what did I do this last Christmas? Same thing I did 29 years before: made characters with the new Traveller game. Of course, this time it was the playtest for Traveller 5, but still was a lot of fun and confusion!

 

[Kralin Thornberry]

'81 - 09....28 years! As long as some of the people I game with have actually been alive (or longer!).

 

[RefinedBean]

There are numbers bigger than 25+?

Only in higher-level play.

(badum-bing)

 

[DeusExMachina]

Wow, I thought my 15 years was a long time (which is more than half my life, scary thought), but it seems there are some really old school gamers here.

Anyway, I started around 94/95 with Shadowrun, moved on to D&D 2nd edition 3 years later or so with some Warhammer miniature gaming in between...