When Did You Start Playing D+D?

[Wind Runner]

Middle of winter and stationed in Shilo Manitoba, Canada...

Nothing to do but Drink....

Fight....

and Game....

Kinda funny how they all came together though.......

 

[xnrdcorex]

More people on this board started playing before I was born then I realised.

I started in 96, I was 13. My brother was in highschool and his friends from band invited him to play. I had been reading Dragonlance novels and asked the DM if I could come. He was a huge dragonlance fan and, since we both liked the books, let me join in.

I also started playing M:TG the same month. Haven't stopped playing either of these games since I started for more than a month at a time.

I'd say they have both made me a better person.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Middle of winter and stationed in Shilo Manitoba, Canada...

Nothing to do but Drink....

Fight....

and Game....

Kinda funny how they all came together though.......

Sounds about as desolate as what my brother related to me about being stationed at Goose Bay, Labrador, back in the very early years of the 1950s. He did bring back a whole footlocker of Canadian whiskey, though, and I won c. $.85 in change (about $8.50 in today's money) by downing a tumbler of Canadian Club he said I couldn'd drink down. Of course I was around age 13 then, and after winning the bet passed out on the living room floor. Luckily for us both parents were not at home.


Gary

 

[Vigilance]

I was 10, went into Waldenbooks with my usual Christmas gift certificate (I was enough of a reader that it was a twice yearly gift for Christmas and birthday) and found myself a bit stumped.

I had READ all the Conan (Howard and pastiches), all the John Carter of Mars and Tarzan (and had discovered I didn't care for the Tolkien)... while looking around I saw this red box that said Dungeons and Dragons.

Bought it... loved it immediately... wrote up my first dungeon the next day for my friends (after returning to the store for graph paper).

When we had burned through levels 1-4, I decided to go to AD&D instead, since you could go ALL the way to 20th level with one book!

Man just thinking about those days makes me want to grab some dice, find some players and start running Temple of Elemental Evil again.

Thanks Gary.

Chuck

 

[Col_Pladoh]

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Man just thinking about those days makes me want to grab some dice, find some players and start running Temple of Elemental Evil again.

Thanks Gary.

Chuck

As if I didn't have like fun in putting the games together, but I do appreciate the thought.

Cheers,
Gary (still having a great time with gaming)

 

[CrusaderX]

I started with the 1981 Moldvay/Otus Magenta Basic Set, with the Keep on the Borderlands adventure. Ah, good times!

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Ho Tenkar!

As a FYI it seems your brother officer from Seattle plans to come to the LGGC next year, with trade goods

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Princesskeyblade]

I am a newbie....Just started last year....After failing attemps to learn in HS and College...Didn't have the right teacher then I guess... But I do now...

 

[Ciaran]

I was in 2nd grade when my mom bought me the blue box Basic set for Christmas in '78. Y'see, my dad had bought Squad Leader for my brother and I, and my mom hated how all the little cardboard counters lurked in the carpet when she did her vacuuming. So when she saw the box said that all you need is pencil, paper and dice, she thought it would be great to buy me a game without all those little counters. If she'd only known...

We didn't start playing until '79, and after a few sessions of exploring Quasqueton and the Caves of Chaos, we moved on to other games: Gamma World, Traveller, Top Secret, Star Frontiers. Then everyone else in the neighborhood got tired of gaming, and play became intermittent at best for a decade, during which I fell in with newfangled games like Amber and Vampire. It wasn't until 3rd Edition that I came back to D&D.

And, of course, D&D is responsible for my current 6-year relationship. But that's another story...

 

[grodog]

*bumping* to complement the current poll on how long folks have been playing.