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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 6252125" data-attributes="member: 4789">My D&D journey started back in the summer of '77 with the Holmes basic. I was 10, and the summer between my 5th and 6th grade. My best friend who's family moved to Kansas and back brought it with them. His older brother was the GM. My mage type died in a hedge I think.I purchased Gamma World, and ran that for a short while, then picked up the Hardcover AD&D books. I was hooked, and it became my primary hobby. Reading Dragon magazine, tinkering with rules, creating characters. I was aware of Boot Hill and Top Secret, but was not into Westerns and Spy stuff, so I never played them.That was the extent of my gaming - D&D and Gamma world for years. I also enjoyed Battlesystem.Then I went to University in '85. Found Rolemaster, Ringworld (oh I wish I still had that set), and most importantly HERO system. HERO fit my approach really well, then D&D moved into second edition. A lot of things I liked were gone (Monks, Demons, Devils) and a lot of stuff I really didn't like were still there (Level limits and other things). So I pretty much ignored 2nd edition rules. We played HERO, and my wife and I played our houseruled AD&D. As an aside - if it wasn't for D&D/gaming I never would have met my wife. She got into D&D about the same time I did, and started HERO in '81. We met because she was GMing the game I joined in late '86. I bought my favorite published setting ever - Spelljammer, and the Waterdeep/Undermountain stuff - but kept using our houseruled AD&D.  While we game in a group every week that is HERO, the wife and I do solo play of another system, more often than not D&D. It went that way for years, then 3rd came out. I was skeptical given my reaction to 2nd. Then I read the multiclassing rules, and pretty much decided it was for me. I played it until 4E came out, played a little of that, stopped, then started up with Pathfinder (I just found the edition that was right for my tasted).So D&D has been around in my life for 37 years, in one way or another, and led me to this hobby, which has become a lifelong passion.Happy 40th.</blockquote>

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