How long have we all been playing RPGs?

[MerricB]

I wish I knew the distribution of starting ages and current ages of the D&D players on the WotC boards; it would make a very interesting comparison, I'm sure.

Cheers!

 

[Kid Socrates]

Man, I feel young.

I'm 21 (22 in two months), and I'm one of the few people I know that game that didn't start in elementary school. I played in my first game in 1999, my junior year of high school, a solo AD&D thing that I didn't get into too much. Then 3rd Edition came out a little while later, and that's where I got my start outside of Mage: The Ascension.

I was born in '82, so at least I can kinda pretend to have been there in the glory years. Kinda.

 

[Jeph]

I started in '99 or 2000--right after 3e came out, when Borders still had 2e books on the shelves.

 

[PaulGreystoke]

It was Fall 1980 of my Freshman year at college that I first played an RPG. It was AD&D - specifically Module A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity. Despite the fact that we got TPKed by the final encounter with the flamethrower, I was immediately hooked.

 

[Agback]

Register and vote!

There may not be anyone you want to vote for, but there is bound to be someone you want to vote against.

 

[Ottergame]

I wanna know WTF happened in 1980-1982 that made everyone start playing D&D. Was that when the D&D cartoons was on the air?

Ahhh, as for myself, I started playing shortly after I learned how to drive, which would have been 1997. Sure seems like I have been playing longer than that though...

 

[talinthas]

born in '81, discovered dragonlance (and through it D&D) in '92. That year, from the guy who brought me to the light, i also discovered dragon warrior and civilization, and got my first dice bag, hand made by his mother. the heavans opened for me then =)

 

[randomling]

Born in '80. Voted '90-'92 because I played my first game of D&D in 1991 (at a school activities day no less) ...and hated it. It wasn't until 2001 that I came back to the hobby with new eyes and got very into it.

 

[Imhotepthewise]

We were doomed from the point one of our little playmates said "let's betend we..." and you answered "yeah, there's dice in the Monopoly box!"

1979. Dam Neck Virginia. Regards to Mark Mehlich, who taught us all to play.

 

[EricNoah]

1979, my older foster brother had started participating in this "secret" hobby he wouldn't tell me about. Later, he realized he had a captive audience in me and so he DM'd our first game. I played a human fighter and we went through B1 In Search Of The Unknown -- he didn't put any monsters in it, though! It was all exploration, a few tricks/traps, and that was it.