How old were you when your first GMed an RPG?

[Ancalagon]

I was 11 or 12 and it was Dungeoneer (from the Fighting Fantasy books).

Same! We were 12-13 and we used that system - aah, good old advanced fighting fantasy, I sometimes wish I could just fix the issues in that system and use that... ah well.

After a year or perhaps 2 of that, we switched to 2nd ed.

Looking back, some of my adventures were... pretty horrid :/

 

[SpellJammer16]

Purple.
started with B2 but I mostly ran ADD 1e.. mostly reusing the castle in Ravenloft everywhere I could lol... and Dragonlance... also some Ghostbusters in '86

 

[aramis erak]

Same! We were 12-13 and we used that system - aah, good old advanced fighting fantasy, I sometimes wish I could just fix the issues in that system and use that... ah well.

After a year or perhaps 2 of that, we switched to 2nd ed.

Looking back, some of my adventures were... pretty horrid :/

AFF is again available... https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse...ategory/1684_25223/Advanced-Fighting-Fantasy?

 

[Ancalagon]

AFF is again available... https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse...ategory/1684_25223/Advanced-Fighting-Fantasy?

Ah but did they fix things?

 

[Psion]

I was 12. How about you?

12.

 

[aramis erak]

Ah but did they fix things?

No clue. that edition was the first one i've read.

 

[thom_likes_gaming]

I was 12. How about you?

Same here.

 

[Ancalagon]

No clue. that edition was the first one i've read.

Some of the problems:

- Skill was super duper important. Maxing it out was *the* way to go
- Monsters didn't have weapon skills (only base skills) which made them too easy to defeat
- Spells cost HP to use. Healing spells gave you HP. So you could cast all day long
- Learning spells lowered your skill score. This resulted in a wizard being a poor combatant (this is good) but also terrible at things like knowledge skills (not so good).
- The strength skill was OP and increased your damage by almost 50% if you were a fighter.