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

[Dire Bare]

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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Roughwood Homespread is the best halfling name I've ever heard!

 

[Dire Bare]

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.

You print out your character sheets?!?! On paper? Dude, old school represent!

 

[erc1971]

I was just shy of 10 years old, it was way back in 1981 when the first Redbox set came out. To this day my mother still regrets getting it for me.

Eric

 

[thom_likes_gaming]

I answered specifically with D&D in mind. I played "Das Schwarze Auge" (the 'german D&D') quite some time before that.

 

[sillyburt]

I started back in Xmas of 1980. I asked for the dungeon board game but got basic D&D instead (5th grade). This was before the redbox set and had the wizard & armored archer on the front peering in at the red dragon. 50 now

p.s. my set also had the chits and no dice. The dice was bought separately and from what I understand they fell apart after XX amount of use. I've still got my dice from that set since trying to find gaming groups back then was difficult.

 

[David Howery]

I started back in Xmas of 1980. I asked for the dungeon board game but got basic D&D instead (5th grade). This was before the redbox set and had the wizard & armored archer on the front peering in at the red dragon. 50 now

p.s. my set also had the chits and no dice. The dice was bought separately and from what I understand they fell apart after XX amount of use. I've still got my dice from that set since trying to find gaming groups back then was difficult.

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I bought that boxed set too... by mistake, actually. I ran into some gaming groups in college and decided to buy the rules for 'Dungeons and Dragons'... not realizing that the groups I wanted to join were using AD&D. Still, I got the basics down pretty fast, tried rolling up some PCs, and eventually got the AD&D books....

 

[Helldritch]

Started to play at 10 in 1980. Became a DM in 1983, never stop DMing ever since.

 

[Morrus]

11, I think. Or within a year of that.

 

[Li Shenron]

Late teen in the middle of the 90s.

 

[Steel_Wind]

12 years old, in 1977.