How did you arrive at D&D?

[diaglo]

the old fashioned way. we earned it.

 

[DragonLancer]

For me it was WFRP back in 1987, which led to Call of Cthulhu, and then to the Basic D&D boxes. Then it was 1st AD&D and up.

 

[mikedidthis]

Like many others, it was the Basic D&D Holmes blue box that got me started (belonged to my cousin). That was around 1980 when I was in jr. high. During the 80s, I loved just about any boxed set TSR put out (Top Secret, Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, Gamma World, etc.) Got into a few other systems for a while as I was enamored with the idea of "realism" (Twilight 2000, anyone?), but these days it's pretty much just D&D for roleplaying because it's still fun.

 

[palleomortis]

Dad started me at age 10 or so. Stated on the origional i think. Good times.

 

[TerraDave]

All the kids were talking about this game...D&D was the first for many things, though not everything.

 

[palleomortis]

All the kids? Like, when you first learned, or recently. Seems like none of the other kids know it exists anymore.

 

[Yami no Hon]

I started with the first Baulder's Gate PC game. I got about as far as the end of the prolauge before I decided "Holy *bleep* this is cool. I've got to get the paper and dice version of this." It was several years later before I actually started playing. I came in just after the switch to 3rd ed. had been made.

 

[Darkness]

Computer RPG --> other RPGs --> D&D

First CRPGs were Bard's Tale I/II, Pool of Radiance, Champions of Krynn, etc. Way back in the late 80s/early 90s.

 

[Gothmog]

Back in 1983, my mom was at a hobby store buying some model train stuff for my dad for his birthday, when she saw the old MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) red boxed set, and since I had been reading the hobbit and LotR at the time, she bought it for me. I remember when she gave it to me, I had no idea what it was, but I sat down one Saturday afternoon and read the book. While it didn't make a lot of sense to me at 10, I got some friends together the next Saturday and we played the sample adventure, and we were all hooked. I also started compulsively buying all the old Grenadier LotR minis at that time for the game. We played MERP for about another year non-stop, before one of my friend's older brothers introduced use to 1st edition AD&D. After I played the first session, I went and bought the PHB, MM, MMII, FF, UA, and DMG with mowing money I had saved up, and that began our D&D craze.

 

[derelictjay]

Computer games first. It went something like this.
Dragon Warrior/Final Fantasy (old NES games) -> D&D Gold Box CRPGs -> 2e D&D -> 3e D&D.

Of course, books & stories had a solid influence going with this. Conan -> Earthsea Trilogy -> Dragonlance Cronicles -> 2e D&D -> 3e D&D

Its a toss up which path actually lead to D&D As I started Conan before I started with those old NES games