TheHand
Adventurer
BECMI: Got started with the Tom Moldvay (Erol Otus cover) basic set in 1981, played till about 1982 when we discovered we could be Advanced!
1e: 1983-1989
2e: 1989-1993 - Stopped playing regularly right around the plethora of "Kit" books.
(1994-1999: Wasn't doing a lot of D&D playing; I remember a lot of Storyteller, Champions, Star Wars d6, Gamma World, Shadowrun, MechWarrior, etc etc)
3e/3.5e: Played this on and off when it came out, as with 3.5; didn't have a regular D&D group. (played in Exalted and a bunch of eclectic games here. Everything had gone "D20" engine and I was burned out on it. I rebelliously tried played anything that wasn't a d20 engine, haha)
4e: 2009-2019: Ironically, the much maligned 4e pulled me back in after I tried out a 1-shot. However, after running campaign, my 4e games became very heavily modified by the end (and I was using the 2e Planescape setting as the backdrop). Some of my players dubbed it "Franken-Fourth Edition".
5e: 2015-present: I didn't like the early DND next materials very much, so I didn't jump onto 5e at launch. But then sat in with a group, ended up DM'ing their second campaign, and now I'm currently running two 5e campaigns
1e: 1983-1989
2e: 1989-1993 - Stopped playing regularly right around the plethora of "Kit" books.
(1994-1999: Wasn't doing a lot of D&D playing; I remember a lot of Storyteller, Champions, Star Wars d6, Gamma World, Shadowrun, MechWarrior, etc etc)
3e/3.5e: Played this on and off when it came out, as with 3.5; didn't have a regular D&D group. (played in Exalted and a bunch of eclectic games here. Everything had gone "D20" engine and I was burned out on it. I rebelliously tried played anything that wasn't a d20 engine, haha)
4e: 2009-2019: Ironically, the much maligned 4e pulled me back in after I tried out a 1-shot. However, after running campaign, my 4e games became very heavily modified by the end (and I was using the 2e Planescape setting as the backdrop). Some of my players dubbed it "Franken-Fourth Edition".
5e: 2015-present: I didn't like the early DND next materials very much, so I didn't jump onto 5e at launch. But then sat in with a group, ended up DM'ing their second campaign, and now I'm currently running two 5e campaigns