How long have you played D&D?
- Thread starter Mark
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Y'know, one-year increments on the poll make it kind of hard to draw any useful conclusions; it's even worse then the three-year age brackets in the "how old are you" poll.
But I've been gaming about ten years now; I rolled up my first character the summer before I started college, and started playing regularly a few months after arriving on-campus.
But I've been gaming about ten years now; I rolled up my first character the summer before I started college, and started playing regularly a few months after arriving on-campus.
Stone Angel
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Got picked up on the street corner and recruited to play, on a wed. afternoon. Been playing ever since
Dracomeander
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29 years of gaming and still enjoying it with players of all ages. A couple of groups I game with have players younger than the folder my characters are in. 
Came up with the answer to the "Who's winning?" question. I just pop back with "We're all having fun so we all are!!"
Came up with the answer to the "Who's winning?" question. I just pop back with "We're all having fun so we all are!!"
Velm Stoneshoulder
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Crothian said:
25 years for me too, and boy do I get a kick out of hearing that I wasn't the only one who played avidly while still trying to figure out the rules. Not that the old blue book had a whole lot of them either!
BigFreekinGoblinoid
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Well Mark,
I first played D&D over 26 years ago, but I have probably played in only about 15 of those years.
feel free to skip the following random musings from over the years:
My first time was with an older friend at his LGS comic book store hangout, when I was sent down there to retrieve him for dinner. Some older guy was running a scenario where a mounted rider attacked the group. His description was so vivid, I still recall believing that the shiny necklace he was sporting just HAD to be the source of his power, and wasted my only attacks trying to hit it with a called shot. My PC died in his first encounter. I had such a good time my friend took me through a solo encounter that night at home after our ( late! - so sorry! ) dinner, walking me through the options in his 3 book boxed set.
My next DM had a completely different style, boring me to death with his World of Greyhawk boxed set, making me walk all over town trying to find places to buy items I might need for adventuring. I could barely make it down to 7-11 to buy baseball cards IRL at that age!
After that, I decided I was the DM, and wasn't a player again until probably 2001 - Except for some gamma world and boot hill games that were a lot of fun.
I have never used a/the Tarrasque in my games, and only one dragon ever.
I do remember being really bothered by trying to create believable dungeon ecologies even as a pre-teen.
I have shamelessly cheated in the players favor, thinking that would keep them interested in the game. Ironically, my longest campaign ever, lasting several years through high school.
Cuthulu and Melnebonian entries in Deities and Demigods were the best part of that book ( My dismay at hearing they were omitted from later printings shook my faith in capitalism ), opening whole new worlds of fiction to me. I eventually got into other fantasy books based on the hobby, and my time spend at the bookstore. I still remember buying the first John Carter Warlord of Mars book because of the hotty on the cover. I initially hid that book from my mom. A d20 Barsoom setting would be the shiznitz.
Arrows of slaying were WAY too anti-climatic
I had a friend who refused to play the game beacuse he could not agree with the concept of a negative armor class being better than a positive one. Maybe I'll look him up sometime...
Anyone still awake?
I first played D&D over 26 years ago, but I have probably played in only about 15 of those years.
feel free to skip the following random musings from over the years:
My first time was with an older friend at his LGS comic book store hangout, when I was sent down there to retrieve him for dinner. Some older guy was running a scenario where a mounted rider attacked the group. His description was so vivid, I still recall believing that the shiny necklace he was sporting just HAD to be the source of his power, and wasted my only attacks trying to hit it with a called shot. My PC died in his first encounter. I had such a good time my friend took me through a solo encounter that night at home after our ( late! - so sorry! ) dinner, walking me through the options in his 3 book boxed set.
My next DM had a completely different style, boring me to death with his World of Greyhawk boxed set, making me walk all over town trying to find places to buy items I might need for adventuring. I could barely make it down to 7-11 to buy baseball cards IRL at that age!
After that, I decided I was the DM, and wasn't a player again until probably 2001 - Except for some gamma world and boot hill games that were a lot of fun.
I have never used a/the Tarrasque in my games, and only one dragon ever.
I do remember being really bothered by trying to create believable dungeon ecologies even as a pre-teen.
I have shamelessly cheated in the players favor, thinking that would keep them interested in the game. Ironically, my longest campaign ever, lasting several years through high school.
Cuthulu and Melnebonian entries in Deities and Demigods were the best part of that book ( My dismay at hearing they were omitted from later printings shook my faith in capitalism ), opening whole new worlds of fiction to me. I eventually got into other fantasy books based on the hobby, and my time spend at the bookstore. I still remember buying the first John Carter Warlord of Mars book because of the hotty on the cover. I initially hid that book from my mom. A d20 Barsoom setting would be the shiznitz.
Arrows of slaying were WAY too anti-climatic
I had a friend who refused to play the game beacuse he could not agree with the concept of a negative armor class being better than a positive one. Maybe I'll look him up sometime...
Anyone still awake?
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