D&D General How old are you?

[Scrivener of Doom]

51. Started D&D in 1981 with a blend of Holmes and the 1E PHB before moving to Moldvay B/X and then 1E only. A fair bit of DragonQuest in between as well (technically the first game I DMed).

 

[MNblockhead]

58, started playing in 77 when dwarves were fighting men, hobbits were thieves.

I still have my old dice that you had to color in and the edges all chipped off.

I only have one of those light blue dice that you had to color in with the included white crayon. It is a dog-chewed d10, the edges so rounded and the bit scars so deep that it isn't good as a fair die anymore. Now I use it as an "okus" in my Illimat games.

Us older gamers keep bringing up those old dice and we never tire of talking about them.

My parents had found it. The other exciting find was some D&D action figures. My parents keep some old toys around so their grandkids had something to play with. Only Warduke and Evil Sorcerer Kelek survived...though Kelek's no longer stay in his body. He must have been a wild-magic sorcerer.

 

[ccs]

50.
I started gaming Christmas 1980 with the Basic set. Well, a few days after Christmas as I had to take a few days to read the rules & B2.... Best Christmas present ever (thanks Grandma!)!

 

[Dormammu]

49. First book was a beat up AD&D Monster Manual in 1979 or so, which my dad found in a giveaway box at the bookstore. He thought I’d like the pictures and fantasy statistics because I liked animal facts as a child.

Shortly after, I cajoled my parents into getting me a Holmes boxed set. Mine came from one of the print runs during TSR’s dice shortage, so it had a laminated sheet of chits to be cut out and drawn from a cup. But they sprung for some real dice from the game store so I never used the chits.

 

[HalfOrc HalfBiscuit]

61. Started in 77 when my older brother bought me white box OD&D.

 

[Nikosandros]

I'm 46. I started at the end of 1985 with the Italian version of the Mentzer's "Red Box".

 

[Mercurius]

While it is early, 112 votes is large enough to be fairly representative. It is looking like the median is around 48-49. What is most striking about this poll is that fully 73% of voters thus far are in their 40s and 50s (82 out of 112), which means:

GEN X RULEZ.

 

[Mercurius]

Oh yeah, my first taste of D&D was in 1981 with Holmes, but I didn't get really into it until later that year or the next when I was gifted with a hand-me-down set of the AD&D rule books from a family friend. The first book I purchased myself was Fiend Folio.

 

[Flamestrike]

There you go. We're all mostly in the 45-50 age bracket.

I still feel 28.

 

[noko]

56, started in 1980 and still have a nearly full set of pale blue dice and the original blue box adventure "In Search of the Unknown". The dice are uncolored as we had no idea what the crayon was for.