Eric Noah's 3rd Edition Website


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Old enough to be "here" from nearly the beginning of Eric's Third Edition news, reading every single new tidbit of information with great interest. Discussing with my new D&D group (I had just moved too).

Funnily enough, it is very similar to when I first started playing D&D, when 2e was on the horizon and previews were coming out in Dragon magazine. While I was doing much less of the talking at the time since I was new to the game (not to RPGs, I'd been playing other games for about 5 years), and it was fun to see the others be interested, excited, and them describing to me the differences and how they saw it might change the game. :)
 

I can't remember how I came across the site but was early on, so must've been 1999. I'd forgotten it was that old, I thought it was 2000. Two possibilities are that I was searching for a copy of Auroras Whole Realms Guide and Anauroch around then so I may have just come across it during a "web" search, or I was on the FR Email board, so I may have found out about it there. Regardless, once I found the site I probably checked it once a day, and except for a few periods where I wasn't actively playing TTRPGs, I still do. I didn't join the boards until 2017 according to my profile, must've been looking for an answer to a question I had and decided to sign up. Hard to believe that was half my life ago.
 

How many of you are old enough to remember the website? I was waxing nostalgic. I was really excited about the new game. I went to Origins Game Fair in Columbus OH and walked up to play a demo game. Monte Cooke walks up and introduces himself. I don't know Monte Cook from Adam. Okay great I'm in but he seemed surprised I didn't even know who he was. After that though I was following Eric Noah's page faithfully.

How many of you young pups weren't even born yet or were super young?
I started gaming in 1979, kid.
 



I have no idea if I was actually active on the forums of Eric's site, but the site overall was very helpful in convincing me to adopt 3e. I came here shortly after that site closed down.
 




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