D&D General Fifty Years

[Lidgar]

Happy belated birthday!

My first memory was playing with a group of friends after school back in ‘81 or so. I think I was running a cleric. We were lured into an ambush by a bunch of leocrottas on the way to the dungeon and never even lived to see it.

To this day those buggers give me the creeps.

 

[Larnievc]

I turn 50 today.

On the one hand, it doesn't bother me at all, but on the other hand, I'm being reflective on the subject.

For example, not that I believe in destiny, but I enjoy serendipity: Maybe I was destined to play D&D?

One of the history books on the subject - I think it was Game Wizards - said that Gary packaged up D&D to send it to the printers TODAY (50 years ago!)

The same day I was born!

Me & D&D grew up together, though I was 12 before I played it. My fighter had green slime dumped on his head. That's pretty much all I remember from that first game. What's your first D&D memory?

I turned 50 a few weeks ago too. I started playing at 12 with the Red Box set. I was the DM and I still am (cries in Forever DM). My earliest memory is adapting the Dragon Warriors RPG adventures for a Basic D&D game at school. I found D&D through the Fighting Fantasy books that had an advert in the back for What Is Dungeons & Dragons?

 

[bedir than]

I have a session tomorrow. None of the players played earlier than 3e. Two of them have only played 5e and with me.

They're going to meet some classic tropes that fit into the current campaign

 

[bedir than]

Fitz helped inspire me to write about what D&D meant to me in the various phases of life I played it in.

I'll share it here, because I have a feeling several of you feel similar in the 80s and 90s.

Happy birthday to the dungeons and happy birthday to the dragons

Today, or some day near today, depending on how you define the beginning, D&D was born. My D&D journey has several births.

fullmoonstorytelling.com

 

[Henadic Theologian]

My first D&D memories were the Goldbox games and the Forgotten Realms novels.

Congrats on the 50th birthday btw ‍♂‍♀