How long have we all been playing RPGs?

[Gith Galath]

1984 at age 12. Played elves in many badly run ODnD games which were nevertheless tons of fun. I remember a game where we had found magically enhanced berries which could cure light wounds when you ate them. Our DM, who obviously had not really understood the rules, let us eat as much berries as we could (which was a lot more than what could grow on that little bush) and gave us hit points accordingly, that is, way over our hp maximum. Thereafter we had a party of 1st to 3rd level characters running around with hundreds (if not thousands) of hit points to spare. We had so much fun... We even managed to recuperate seeds of the said berries, which we sowed to grow more berries. When things got out of control, which was pretty soon after that, we started over with new PCs...

 

[Mog Elffoe]

Started actually playing D&D in 1990 right after I graduated high school. I used to go to the public library all the time to read the D&D books since the early 80s though (couldn't check them out as they were classified as reference books), especially the Monster Manuals and the Fiend Folio. I always dug all those monsters.

 

[Wombat]

Since Labor Day Weekend, 1976

I was 17 at the time and had been playing Chainmail as a set of historical minis rules for three to four years at that point. No one in my group had heard of rpgs up to that point, but I already had the dice from a trip to a science museum ("See The Platonic Solids Formed Into Dice!").

Dropped out of D&D prior to "First Edition" AD&D -- came back to D&D with 3e.

There were a couple short periods without games, but they are horridly memorable, like withdrawls...

 

[Tortoise]

1981 for me.

 

[the Jester]

1981. Red Box, baby, and the Keep on the Borderlands all the way.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Summer of 1980. I was in college, and I was 20. We played a hybrid of D&D and AD&D, I think. AD&D characters in the D&D setting.

 

[Epametheus]

I can remember looking through my big brother's 1st edition Monster Manual before I actually knew how to read.

I didn't develop a sufficient attention span to actually play RPGs until I was 10 or so, so around 1991.

 

[Agback]

1980 f'r me.

Cheers, Al'Kelhar

PS Shouldn't this be a poll, perhaps with 3-year brackets from the late 1970s, and a "before 1976" (or whatever year is before the D&D blue books came out)?

Indeed. It was supposed to be poll, but my ISP rather high-handedly cut me off in teh middle of posting it.

Regards,


Agback

 

[CombatWombat51]

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!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Indeed. It was supposed to be poll, but my ISP rather high-handedly cut me off in teh middle of posting it.

Better?

-Hyp.
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