How did you arrive at D&D?
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Kanegrundar
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It all started for me with The Legend of Zelda on the NES. From there, I went on to Final Fantasy and HeroQuest (the MB game with orcs, goblins, mummies, and chaos warriors). After a couple years of tweaking the heck out of HQ, I got into the first D&D computer games and then into D&D proper with the an old Basic Set, then with 1st Edition, and then onto 2E, and finally to 3E in the here and now (after leaving for Alternity between 2E and 3E.)
Kane
Kane
Captain Tagon
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Choose your own adventure books --> Secret of Mana on SNES --> Mechwarrior 2nd Ed. --> Star Wars d6 --> Final Fantasy games --> Hercules and Xena RPG --> Babylon 5 RPG --> Star Wars and Wheel of Time d20 (my first eperience with classes and levels, crazy stuff man) --> Neverwinter Nights --> DnD
MonsterMash
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Started with miniatures wargames and saw D&D advertised in the back of Battle, which was a British wargaming magazine in the late 70's and it all went from there.
Kax Tuglebend
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hmm *wracks brains* i used to watch the D&D cartoon and Knightmare on TV, then i discovered the GW hobby via Space Crusade & HeroQuest, and my mother picked me up a copy of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay ~ but i never played it.. then i started sort of making up my own RPG's based on computer games (usually rather naff ones of the North South East West variety), then i finally discovered D&D in a games shop when i was about 14-15 (1994-95) and have been hooked ever since
davidschwartznz
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I voted D&D first (introduced to the red box in an afterschool program).
However, my first encounter with a published RPG was a few years earlier. Summer at the shared beach house. The teenagers were playing The Marvel Superheroes game and dragged us younger kids in. I played Mr. Fantastic. All I remeber was impressing the older kids by knocking out a mook at 50 feet. I think I fell asleep halfway through. It didn't actually spark my interest for roleplaying games, but ever since I've had a fondness for the Fanatastic Four.
(PS This is my first post with my new avatar. That's my picture in Dragon magazine! Well, technically it was in the Tribune first...
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However, my first encounter with a published RPG was a few years earlier. Summer at the shared beach house. The teenagers were playing The Marvel Superheroes game and dragged us younger kids in. I played Mr. Fantastic. All I remeber was impressing the older kids by knocking out a mook at 50 feet. I think I fell asleep halfway through. It didn't actually spark my interest for roleplaying games, but ever since I've had a fondness for the Fanatastic Four.
(PS This is my first post with my new avatar. That's my picture in Dragon magazine! Well, technically it was in the Tribune first...
)
mhacdebhandia
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In 1990 I'd just moved to Sydney from Melbourne, and I was reading a novelisation of E.T. which my parents owned for some reason; the kids, as you probably know, play D&D at the beginning (I vividly recall the scene as presented in the book, where the mother is lying down in the next room listening and wonders if a "portable hole" is obscene).
A few weeks later my mother and I stopped by a table of books on sale in a local shopping centre and I saw the U.K. version of the third edition of the D&D Basic Set (both the players' and the DM's booklets collected into one, A5-sized volume), which I still own fifteen years later.
A few weeks later my mother and I stopped by a table of books on sale in a local shopping centre and I saw the U.K. version of the third edition of the D&D Basic Set (both the players' and the DM's booklets collected into one, A5-sized volume), which I still own fifteen years later.
AIM-54
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Many things attributed to my eventual discovery and succumbing to the magic of D&D and role-playing in general. First, I had a love of medieval history and knights and whatnot from an early age. My first jaunt into the field of games might be considered the original Wizardry (from 1981), which my dad had and could run on our 386 machine. In middle school (7th grade, 1993 exactly) I had some friends that played and introduced me to the game (I'd already gotten into pulp fantasy like Dragonlance and FR at that point). We played briefly during lunch hours and recesses, but it was hard to keep things going. My first ever character was a dwarven fighter with a triceratops mount (yes, I was also a huge dinosaur nerd). After that died, I didn't play really until high school, when I got my two best friends into it as well. Bought my PHB and ran from there (this was the 2E reprint era, with the nice black covered books and colored art...much improved on the blue motif, IMO). Went on to take up Battletech, Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, as well as the occasional jaunt into Call of Cthulhu.
Wombat
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Most likely you could say I started with miniature wargames, back around 1971/2.
When D&D showed up, it was introduced to me (in a miniatures catalog -- thank you Brookhurst Hobbies!) as a fantasy/medieval set of rules in the style of Chainmail (the old yellow-cover rules I had used for a couple of years).
Then again, you could say I came to D&D through reading, as I had been reading classical mythology, the legends of King Arthur, and scattered sci fi/fantasy for several years prior.
Or you could just say I started with OD&D in 1975.
**shrug**
All of the above answers are true, depending on your perspective...
When D&D showed up, it was introduced to me (in a miniatures catalog -- thank you Brookhurst Hobbies!) as a fantasy/medieval set of rules in the style of Chainmail (the old yellow-cover rules I had used for a couple of years).
Then again, you could say I came to D&D through reading, as I had been reading classical mythology, the legends of King Arthur, and scattered sci fi/fantasy for several years prior.
Or you could just say I started with OD&D in 1975.
**shrug**
All of the above answers are true, depending on your perspective...
Arkham
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Something different:
It started with the Guardians of the Flame series from Joel Rosenberg. My parents wouldn't get me the game, so I attempted to write one myself ( at age 8 ). I made a map, and a list of spells, and tried to run a game for my older sister. It unceremoniously failed within 5 minutes. Darn lack of a rules-system.
So many years down the line I get interested in Lovecraft and finally having some money of my own, I bought Call of Cthulhu and ran it for my friends during lunches in high school.
From there I went through various systems, V:tM was new at the time, then the rest of the World of Darkness, Mechwarrior, 7th Sea, and finally ran D&D with 3rd Ed.
It started with the Guardians of the Flame series from Joel Rosenberg. My parents wouldn't get me the game, so I attempted to write one myself ( at age 8 ). I made a map, and a list of spells, and tried to run a game for my older sister. It unceremoniously failed within 5 minutes. Darn lack of a rules-system.
So many years down the line I get interested in Lovecraft and finally having some money of my own, I bought Call of Cthulhu and ran it for my friends during lunches in high school.
From there I went through various systems, V:tM was new at the time, then the rest of the World of Darkness, Mechwarrior, 7th Sea, and finally ran D&D with 3rd Ed.
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