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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 7401861" data-attributes="member: 4789"><p>41 for me. Started in '77 with Holmes, I was 10. Had my best friend's older brother find a game in Kansas and brought back with him called D&D. The next year the Players handbook for "Advanced" came out. So basic to advanced ok. The I realized it was a completely different game. But I liked it. </p><p>Don't remember much about my earliest characters, they were mostly disposable. My first character ever was a wizard that got killed by that stupid vampire thorn thing in B1. I played and GMed Gamma World in there too. Those were the only two RPGs I played between 77 and 85. I moved to college and discovered just how much out there I was missing - and Champions/HERO became my game of choice for decades.</p><p>I met my wife because she was the GM of the group I joined when I moved to a new area. We games solo together - and as we played HERO with the group we did different things solo - so we played our houseruled 1st edition AD&D until about 95. We also played around with Rolemaster, Mythus and some others. About that point we stopped playing any form of D&D, and just played HERO.</p><p>We didn't play 2nd ed (although we did use the Spelljammers stuff) - it got rid of things we liked (monks, demons devils) and kept or brought in things we didn't like (level limits for demi humans, Planescape, Dark Sun).</p><p>I came back in 3rd edition D&D, both because I preferred the game, and I loved the concept of the OGL and d20 license - which never achieved what I thought it could. When 4E came out, I gave it a try, found it wasn't to my taste, and moved to pathfinder. </p><p>Came over the 5th about a month ago, and am playing in 1 game (montly), and GMing 2 others already (one is every 2 weeks, and the other is solo for my wife, whenever we have a few hours free). And we still have our weekly HERO game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Mhoram, post: 7401861, member: 4789"] 41 for me. Started in '77 with Holmes, I was 10. Had my best friend's older brother find a game in Kansas and brought back with him called D&D. The next year the Players handbook for "Advanced" came out. So basic to advanced ok. The I realized it was a completely different game. But I liked it. Don't remember much about my earliest characters, they were mostly disposable. My first character ever was a wizard that got killed by that stupid vampire thorn thing in B1. I played and GMed Gamma World in there too. Those were the only two RPGs I played between 77 and 85. I moved to college and discovered just how much out there I was missing - and Champions/HERO became my game of choice for decades. I met my wife because she was the GM of the group I joined when I moved to a new area. We games solo together - and as we played HERO with the group we did different things solo - so we played our houseruled 1st edition AD&D until about 95. We also played around with Rolemaster, Mythus and some others. About that point we stopped playing any form of D&D, and just played HERO. We didn't play 2nd ed (although we did use the Spelljammers stuff) - it got rid of things we liked (monks, demons devils) and kept or brought in things we didn't like (level limits for demi humans, Planescape, Dark Sun). I came back in 3rd edition D&D, both because I preferred the game, and I loved the concept of the OGL and d20 license - which never achieved what I thought it could. When 4E came out, I gave it a try, found it wasn't to my taste, and moved to pathfinder. Came over the 5th about a month ago, and am playing in 1 game (montly), and GMing 2 others already (one is every 2 weeks, and the other is solo for my wife, whenever we have a few hours free). And we still have our weekly HERO game. [/QUOTE]
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