D&D General How old were you when you started playing D&D?

[collin]

I had just turned 15 - 1979. Started by playing from the boxed set of rules (whatever that was at the time) and then soon moved on to playing AD&D.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

If my memory serves me correctly, I got into D&D when I was 9, with the Red Box. I was the DM and my brother tells me his very first character, cleric, died from a pit trap on his first outing, but I don't remember that part at all. Chances are back then he deserved it, though.

 

[David Howery]

. I was the DM and my brother tells me his very first character, cleric, died from a pit trap on his first outing, but I don't remember that part at all.

ya know, there was a pit trap in the very first room of the very first cave in the Caves of Chaos/Keep on the Borderland module... did that one still come included with the red box set?

 

[Bawylie]

I started when I was 8. I’m days shy of 40.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It did not. By that time, Isle of Dread was what was packaged in the Expert set.

His second character lived a much longer career, and Roughwood Homespread managed to make it all the way to becoming an Immortal. In one of my remaining BECMI boxed sets (I have all the books, but the actual boxes have mostly succumbed to time), I discovered that I still have his character sheet:

ya know, there was a pit trap in the very first room of the very first cave in the Caves of Chaos/Keep on the Borderland module... did that one still come included with the red box set?

 

[Mallus]

I think 16, unless it was 15.

And now at 51, I'm playing in two (virtualized) campaigns with two friends who was in my original high school group. One the campaigns reunites my old college group.

It's the one good thing about the pandemic!

 

[embee]

It did not. By that time, Isle of Dread was what was packaged in the Expert set.

His second character lived a much longer career, and Roughwood Homespread managed to make it all the way to becoming an Immortal. In one of my remaining BECMI boxed sets (I have all the books, but the actual boxes have mostly succumbed to time), I discovered that I still have his character sheet:

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Ahhhh... the good old days.

When D&D character sheets were sold in packs of 200 and called "Notebook Filler Paper."

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I have so many characters written up on line-ruled paper from back in the day. I never bothered with official character sheets until 2e. Of course now anyone with a printer can just print their own, of whatever style works for them.

Ahhhh... the good old days.

When D&D character sheets were sold in packs of 200 and called "Notebook Filler Paper."

 

[Marc_C]

In 1980, I was 15.

 

[DND_Reborn]

I was 5, almost 6, when my older sister (10) and her friends introduced me and my best friend to the game.