How long have we all been playing RPGs?

[jrients]

I still like the one dungeon approach to campaign!

I started in the summer of '81 with the boxed set (edited by Moldvay, cover by Otus). I was 9 years old.

 

[jrients]

1975 - my cousin ran a game. I went too deep in the dungeon too fast and was swallowed by a Purple Worm. Ahhhh, back in the day when there was ONE dungeon per campaign!

I still like the one dungeon approach to campaign!

I started in the summer of '81 with the boxed set (edited by Moldvay, cover by Otus). I was 9 years old.

 

[Ysgarran]

Summer of 1977 (12 years old) on the Michigan State University campus. I was there for a chess competition and had some time between games. I saw some older kids playing with some strangely shaped dice. I had just finished 'The Hobbit' and when I heard the talk of dwarves and dragons I was pretty much immediately hooked.

later,
Ysgarran.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

1990, Shadowrun first edition. I played a decker (=hacker) when no one of us understood the decking rules. Actually, we still don't, but the SR 1st edition rules for the matrix were really horrible. As a result, my decker was soon armed with a light machine gun in a full gyro mount and concentrated on other aspects of the setting. Those were the days...

 

[Bleys]

1980 for me, at the ripe old age of 8

I still have my various characters from those first couple of years, some of them even on "official" character sheets from the ones they sold back then...

It's been a long and winding road since then, and it looks like it won't stop for a long time to come (my oldest daughter, who is almost 3, has already shown interest when we play RPGs as well as Warhammer... )

 

[tzor]

It seems that the 80-82 years are winning. I started playing the game at the second semester of my first year in college in 1980, although we were playing AD&D.

 

[Agback]

It seems that the 80-82 years are winning.

Indeed. WE ROOL!!!!

Regards,


Agback

 

[CrusaderX]

I think it was 1981 for me, give or take 1 year.

So thanks for posting an exact "1980-82" range.

 

[Nighthawk]

I was introduced to the game by a co-worker in Jan., 1978. My human fighter made it to second level. I was so thrilled. Then he promptly died the next session, crushed between two dungeon walls. Ah, the days of yore.

 

[nopantsyet]

We are the children of the red box...