Did you know about D&D's reputation before buying?

[Taloras]

Hmmm....i just started playing back in February, so yes, i knew of its reputation, and i ignored it. However, i do keep getting asked if D&D relates at all to my religion, Wicca, which i simply tell them no to. I have had several ppl -claim- to be experts on it, and lecture me on it. Yet none of them have a clue what the game is about. so yes, i knew about the reputation, knew it was false, and played anyway.

 

[GhostTiger]

I started in '79, but I had no idea. One day a gaming buddy's dad was giving me a ride home after an all weekender and he asked me a few questions about kids going nuts and suicides. It confused the hell out of me, but I said it sounded like they already had problems before they ever started playing. He seemed satisfied with that. In retrospect it was cool, he was a dad just watching out for his kid; and most importantly, he talked to us.

 

[Agamon]

I started before there as a reputation. When there was a reputation, my mom trusted me. Plus, I think she didn't figure my friends and I were getting into trouble making all that goofy racket downstairs when we played...

 

[EricNoah]

Well as an old timer, started playing in 78/79 the game did not have a reputation.

Ditto!

 

[UniversalMonster]

I bought it back in 1978, before it had a reputation.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I didn't know anything about D&D's reputation when I first got into it. Hell I didn't know what D&D was when I first got it. My first experience with D&D was when a friend gave me a stolen copy of the Expert (Blue Box) D&D game. This was his idea of a christmas present. Back in '87. I quickly realized it didn't do me alot of good and had my parents get me the Basic (Red Box) for Christmas. They didn't know what D&D was either, but they had heard bad things about it. However since they trusted my judgement they bought it for me.

 

[Falcon]

I first bought D&D in 1975, when I was 12. Didn't know of any reputation then, missed the whole bru-ha-ha whilst living in Europe for eight years, and now, playing 3E at 38, quite frankly, I don't care what the reputation is. My colleagues and I have fun, and that is what matters.

 

[Corey II]

Hmm... I can remember copying character sheets with carbon paper while listening to E.L.O. (Ouch.)

I got into the game in 1974. That means I was six. I still have the three little 30-odd page booklets.

That puts me in the it had no reputation and gosh I'm getting older category.

Corey

 

[Neowolf]

I first got interested in the game by reading my mom's old 1E AD&D books (I'm 18 now, as a reference), and didn't know anything about the reputation at the time. I just knew that I recognized words like "dwarf" and "elf" from those great bedtime stories (Tolkien) my mother read to me. It wasn't until I told an aunt about my new-found hobby that I found out that anything bad had ever been connected to the game.

 

[The Onion Knight]

you know,
you should have a 3rd entry in your poll
when I started playing, D&D did not have a reputation yet