Which year did you start playing D&D

[MonsterMash]

Best poll option ev4r.

Glad you liked it!

 

[BOZ]

wow, surprised by all the olde tyme responses. my first game ever was in 1987, even though i didn't start playing with any regularity until c1990. so, i went with the older date just because.

 

[MonsterMash]

For me it was 1977 - white box version of OD&D(1974)

 

[MonsterMash]

wow, surprised by all the olde tyme responses. my first game ever was in 1987, even though i didn't start playing with any regularity until c1990. so, i went with the older date just because.

The older date would be correct as it was really about the first time.

 

[Hitokiri]

1987 at the age of 7. A friend of mine had gotten some rule books and spent a month learning the system, and when I went to visit him one day he asked if I wanted to try a new game. We still game together when we can to this day (although living 500 miles apart keeps our games on something closer to an annual schedule as opposed to a monthly or weekly scheduel )

 

[Jdvn1]

Glad you liked it!

Liked it? I had to gather myself afterwards.

 

[Aethelstan]

I got the original rules in the blue boxed set for Christmass (1978?). Instead of dice it came with cardboard chits you had to cut out. I'd seen poly dice but had no where to buy them. I remember my Mom accidentally threw out the cup containing the d20 chits. I was eleven and I had to fight back the tears. Man...this makes me feel old.

 

[Crothian]

summer of 80 with whatever version of the Basic set was out at the time. I didn't get any books or dice of my own for about 4 years and the game we played was more like random choose your own adventures with no DM.

 

[TerraDave]

So far about 40% are in the 79-83 period. If anything I thought it might be higher...but then again, it was 20 years ago...the late 70s are also doing better at this point then the late 1980's: OD&D beats 2nd edition, with the double whammy of AD&D and B/E D&D the undisputed champion.

There is a pickup in 92-94, three years after the release of 2nd edition, could be an artifact of the small sample size, could be people actually pulled in by Magic or other RPGs, though that goes completely against the conventional wisdom of the time. Or could be something else (Dark Sun, Planescape?). And of course things really drop off after that, as TSR starts to implode. No obvious pick up for 3.0 either

Maybe the people who started all those "we need new blood threads" were on to something, or all the newbs are on the wizards boards.

 

[Impeesa]

1998 for me, almost exactly a year after I picked up Magic. It's a gateway game, I tell you. The books were from one of the first runs of 1E AD&D though, so it was like 1980 in spirit.

My wife has been playing since 1984 (as long as we've been together) and our sons have both played since they were eight as well. One is 18 now (He's on the boards here), the other is 14. My main campaign is still running, upgrading through various editions and changing worlds three times, but with continuous generational storylines and legacies, since 1978 or so. I meant to put it down for good this year and run Eberron, but I had some ideas...

You know you're hardcore when your characters have kids, and then you have real kids to play them.

--Impeesa--