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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AriochQ" data-source="post: 7359805" data-attributes="member: 6793324">BECMI - I owned both Holmes and Moldvay since I bought anything that had "D&D" on it, but we never played them.  We started with AD&D and actually just made stuff up while waiting for the release of PHB and DMG.  We were 11 years old, so things were pretty fast and loose rules wise.1st Edition - Played from 1978 to 1987 and those were mostly high school and college years, so we game A LOT.  We would have D&D weekends where we would play for 36 hours straight.  The crazy things you can do when you are a teenager!2nd Edition - 1987 to 1993.  I don't have a clear memory of the divide between 1st and 2nd edition, we just played AD&D and used whatever books had come out.  I was in a weekly campaign with a DM who eventually ended up working at TSR, so I know we must have morphed the game from 1st to 2nd edition since that campaign ran 1986-1991ish.  I also ran several games, so probably averaged around 2 games/week.3rd Edition - 2000-2002 After a break, I started playing a 3/3.5 game with some guys at a video game developer I worked at.  We only played about once a week since we also played a bunch of video games lol.  Life and career took over when I left that job and I took a long hiatus from D&D, mostly scratching my gaming itch with MMORPG and other video games.4th Edition - Got remarried in 2010 and my 11 year old step-son wanted me to introduce he and his friends to D&D. Struggled through the occasional 4th edition game and I wasn't invested enough to mind the warts on 4e.5th Edition - Truly reconnected with the hobby with the release of 5th edition.  Immediately regretted selling all my original D&D stuff on ebay 10 years prior (full line of Grenadier miniatures, all TSR modules published through 1986, a autographed EGG PHB advertising poster, etc.).  Been playing a lot of 5th edition, currently average at least one game a week.In terms of the time spent playing each edition for me:1st2nd5th (at current rate, this will eventually surpass 2e for time played).3rd4th</blockquote>

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