How long have you been posting on ENWorld?

[Dark Jezter]

I've been posting ever since the summer of 2001, back when the site was hosted by Gamespy and it was called "Eric Noah's 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons News and Reviews" or something like that.

It's hard for me to believe I've been posting for that long.

 

[Carnifex]

Another fondly remembered thread - a troll, of course - was from Bugaboo (or maybe Ruin Explorer?) titled something like, "Am I wrong to exclude pregnant women from playing in my campaigns?" The 'argument' went something like, "I have nothing against women, babies, or pregnancy, but I want continuity in my campaign. And having a baby means the new mother will miss sessions."

Y'know, I think I remember that one...

 

[cats_claw]

one thing i've noticed from meeting a small handful of other posters, is that us "old-timers" who remember Eric Noah's site call it "E--N--World" when we say it out loud. new people who came in later often say it "en--World" because they don't know what the E.N. stands for.

I've always called it E--N--World. I've lurked since 2000, posted since mid-2002.

 

[Wolf72]

I've always called it E--N--World. I've lurked since 2000, posted since mid-2002.

same here, it's E - N - world to me.

ok ... the 3e PHb came out in the summer right ... um ... I think I started posting, um ... around the time the teaser thing came out in dragon magazine.

all I really remember is that I finished my MSE last may and that was 2003 ... I can't really remember what year 3e came out

 

[grodog]

First board, sometime soon after the announcement of 3e =)

 

[jollyninja]

once there was a guy who had spent years looking for quality AD&D material on the internet, his nightly searches brought him across a site called eric noahs 3e speculation page or some such thing with a link to a schoolteacher's campaign notes and a page that informed me that at some thing called gencon, WotC had announced there was going to be a third edition of dungeons and dragons. it then proceeded to tell me that the site was going to be trying to collect all the tidbits of info that were out there to be gleaned on what this third edition was going to be like. i think it was september or october of 1999, but it may have just seemed that long until august rolled around. i checked the site every day until the ph, mm, and dmg were all in my grubby little mits. i believe my posting name at the time was elvibratoro. i was there before the third eye blind rip off logo (the circular red one), i was there for skurge dwarfbane's bag of dwarf heads being used as a big sap. i left for awhile when my spending on dnd products got out of hand (if i didn't know what was available, i couldn't order it) and this morrus character took over the site (his people call them chips, mine call them fries, i consider this an irreconcilable difference, sorry). then when i burned out on rpg's and tried the whole jesus freak thing (no offence meant to any christians, i went evangelical for a bit and it was really weired) i stopped posting again. after 8 months i decided one day to check how the site was faring and have been back to twice a week gaming since about a month later.

as for the e.n. world thing, the first time i heard Nworld i didn't even know what the guy was talking about. he kept thanking me for showing him the site and i had no clue

 

[Wycen]

Despite what this username says is my registered date, I've been posting since the old Noah boards, though I think I was a lurker for the original, it wasn't until the release of 3E that I started posting.

Then, there was a period when Morrus was switching board software like crazy and I got fed up reregistering and started lurking again. Finally I had to register again to give input on some topic I no longer remember, but that account didn't use my ubiquitous web monicker, so I eventually registered the current abbreviated version.

 

[megamania]

Lurked using another's computer and name (with permission) waaaaay back when PSI HB was first talked about. Officially joined (my own user name) in DEC as marke dto the side to enter Dr. Suess contest. Been here ever since and even lost about 1600 message count during the Hivemind cleansing.

 

[Cassander]

I've been here since the first message board. I think it was around the start of 2000. I had just read about 3e in Dungeon magazine and was searching the web for info on the new edition. I was very critical about the need for a new edition... but when I found Eric Noah's site and read about it, I thought "well, there are some good things here like the new saving throws, but if it isnt fully compatible, I'm not gonna like it". As I checked into the site every single day to find out the latest updates and then started mining statblocks with you guys for what we could figure out about 3e, my feelings changed. I started to love the new system. I incorporated elements into my current 2e game. I was hooked and even when I knew it wouldn't be compatible, I loved it anyway.

I also remember hearing the first news of d20... Ryan Dancey's brainchild and the interviews with him. It's incredible how such a little expiriment has blossomed into so much more. Originally it was mainly intended for adventures, and they were there right after d20 started appearing, but wow look how much has changed!

And when I came on, I also started checking the messageboards. I was known as Antrion back then. I remember people like Squirrel Nutkin and ForgottenHater. I remember discussing gender and Gary Gygax's idiotic comments regarding it as well as his praise of hack n slash above all other ways of gaming (he seems to change his tune every year but neh). I truely think the heyday and most exciting time was back before 3e came out. But it is amazing how this community has grown.

I've never been too much of a regular poster, but I still peak in now and then

So to anyone who remembers me as "Antrion", Hi!

And to clarify, the first boards had only one forum and it was hideously primitive! I remember Eric soon changed it to a decently normal set of boards.

 

[Driddle]

Bugaboo is a newspaper reporter in the midwest, and his wife had a cartoon caption published in Dragon's monthly contest last year. I last chatted with him by email about a year ago. His "Bugaboo school of DMing" was a great joke. ...

I remember. Heck of a guy. Heck-Of-A. Truly a genius.
It must have been a growing 'phase' the board went through. Haven't seen much of him, his partners in crime, or their BRILLIANT stunts since.