How long have we all been playing RPGs?

[Wehtam]

I satrted with AD&D back in the early 1990's. Actually it might have been before that but I can remember distinctly playing in 1990 because the Gulf War was on. I was a warrior and made it up to level 6 and I had an awesome Crossbow of Speed and had a AC of like 6. Then something happened and we stopped playing. I think the Deck of Many Things got a hold of us. That thing is nothing but trouble

We split our time between AD&D and the West End Games version of the Star Wars RPG First edition. I was a kickass bounty hunter in that one.

Right now I'm in a once a month game at a FLGS in the Forgotten Realms city of Suzail. I'm a 6th level Fighter/3rd level of Order of the Bow Initiate.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I was a warrior and made it up to level 6 and had a AC of like 6.

So you were wearing, like, scale mail?

-Hyp.

 

[Al'Kelhar]

So you were wearing, like, scale mail?

-Hyp.

Naw, by 6th level, he'd have had ring mail +1 (note the location of the "plus", er, enhancement bonus).

 

[Wehtam]

So you were wearing, like, scale mail?

-Hyp.

Actually, it was Splint Mail if I remember correctly. That and a somewhat good dex.

I also had something like an 18/56 strength. HOw I longed for an 18/00 strength.

 

[Wehtam]

Naw, by 6th level, he'd have had ring mail +1 (note the location of the "plus", er, enhancement bonus).

Magic items in the campign I was in were few and far between. I was lucky to have that Crossbow of Speed. I thought that was the coolest thing in the game.

What bugs me is that the thief got a Short Sword of Quickness and the Cleric got a Mace of Disruption. I don't recall what the bonuses were but those were much cooler than my crossbow of speed.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

In 1975 I replied to an advertisement in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and spent $10 on the beige box D&D.

Like Mark I am a quatrogenarian, I won't say how far along the road to senility...

The Auld Grump

 

[bubbalin]

Come now, am I really the "youngest" gamer here? I've been playing since summer of '94 (and what a fine summer it was...) and I consider nearly 10 years to be a good deal of time! Other younglings, come, stand with me! Face down these people that have gamed longer than we've lived!

You're old, first started gaming in November 2000, I'm born 81

 

[BSF]

1980 for me. I was 10 at the time.

 

[bloodymage]

Strictly speaking RPG, it was 1981. However, I was wargaming in 1973.

 

[Mark]

As with the Age Poll, we need to get a few more of the stragglers to vote...