Just Curious ... Hom many come from AD&D?

[Particle_Man]

AD&D from 1982.

 

[TerraDave]

his complete collection of Kenner Star Wars figures and action sets. In particular, I remember him trying to run a combat while I was trying to do something with the big 4-story Death Star action set.

Memories....(and it was mostly friends stuff, but I did have the AT-AT!)

Back on topic, Mithril D, it is pretty clear from polls like this polls like this (as well as several thousand posts on hundreds of threads) that you are far from alone.

 

[AIM-54]

First played 2E with some friends in 1993, but didn't really get into it until 1995 when I bought the newly revamped PHB. Got my good friends into it, though we quickly branched out into Battletech/MechWarrior and Shadowrun. Didn't catch up with 3E until 2002, shortly before 3.5 came out. Met my current group, which introduced me to the plethora d20 products out there. Still prefer SR, but I'm having a blast with the d20 Modern/Sidewinder: Recoiled game we're currently playing, having, for the moment at least, though likely indicative of a growing preference for historical/modern games, burned out on fantasy gaming. (How's that for an overly complex sentence!)

 

[Morrow]

I started with 'red box' basic D&D and the expert, companion, and master boxes that followed. The Rules Cyclopedia was a godsend. With the exception of a brief, lamentable period as a player in a AD&D 2nd edition campaign in junior high, I bypassed AD&D entirely. I switched to 3e when it came out, mostly because it had been five years since I'd played and the publication of 3e offered an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a game that people were actually playing. Which isn't to say I threw out my Rules Cyclopedia. I've stolen material from the old Mystara Gazeteers for every 3e and 3.5 game I've DMed.

Morrow

 

[DM-Rocco]

Im brand new to this forum and I was just wondering how many members are "Old School" AD&D players who still play (despite marriage, kids, jobs, bills, etc) and how may started D&D with the 3.5 rules. I personally have been DMing since the mid 80s and I think the new rules are a huge improvement (all nostalgia aside). These days my playing is limited to an annual "game weekend" with my friends who have all gone their separate ways but I am an illustrator who focuses primarily on fantasy and sci-fi art so I still get my "fix" through my art. Anyway, I was just curious, so please respond and let me know what your background is and how RPG games are crammed into your busy (or not) lifestyle.

I have a 25 year investment in AD&D. Started when I was 10 in 1980. Many DM hours later and I can tell you that I love AD&D, hated the dreaded 2nd edition but think that 3.5 have a few too many rules. Don't get me wrong, I like the changes, but as an old school AD&D player/DM it was very tough trying to learn the hundreds of small little rules come pop up from time to time.

Over all, I think I like 3.5 for the same reason I hate it, the variety.

 

[diaglo]

Over all, I think I like 3.5 for the same reason I hate it, the variety.

my hat of d02 knows no limits

 

[DragonLancer]

I started in 1987 with WFRP and the red box Basic D&D. Picked up 1st ed AD&D about a year before 2nd ed was announced. Moved into 2nd ed AD&D maybe a year after it was out, and then moved into 3.0/3.5 as soon as they were released.

No break since 1987.

 

[Greenstone]

Started at age 16 (in 1983) with the Red Box Basic Set, then on to Expert (played B1-3, U1, X2 and X1 in that first year). Then my Dad went on business to the UK (I live in South Africa, although I was born in the UK) and brought me back the AD&D DMG, MM and PHB, as well as N1 (still my fave module of all time).

DM'ed my own AD&D adventures from '84 to '91, first in Greyhawk, then a small homebrew campaign setting, with more or less the same group of friends. This gaming group then drifted apart as the whole Real Life thing of marriage, kids, work etc happened.

Reformed in 1995 to start an epic homebrew campaign that I'd worked on intermittently in the intervening years, but by then I was bored with AD&D (I never liked 2nd Ed as much as 1st Ed, and regretted ever having changed), so we switched to a homebrew combo of 1st Ed AD&D and the Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game (which ended up so much like the d20 system, it's scary).

That campaign ran for ten years, and ended with the PCs ascending as gods at the close of 2004.

I've never taken to D&D3E (dislike feats, have nothing but contempt for the ridiculous size of the monster stat blocks, and detest Half-Undead Werewolf Elementalist 13th level Fighter/7th level Arcane Archer/3rd Level Woodland Expert/1st Level Origami Artists,...) .

While I kinda like the look of C&C, my homebrew system [SAGAS - Stand-Alone Generic Adventure System] is now too entrenched with my players to change.

Have spent 2005 on hiatus prepping two new homebrew campaign settings - one for my original players, and one for my kids (girl 10, boy 6)...

The adult group managed the 10-year campaign playing Thursday evenings 8.30-12, so will stick to this, but may switch to bi-weekly. The kids will play alternate Saturday mornings, maybe just a couple of hours at first.

These campaigns will both start in December, and I'm looking forward to DM-ing once again.

Man, I love this hobby.

 

[Mithril Dragon]

Well thanks for responding everyone ... its good to know Im not totally alone in my love for a game that more or less came out when I was four years old. Do me a favor and stop by MY SITE even though its currently under construction. There is some stuff up if you click on the ARCANE APPAREL banner. When Im finished working on my site there will a gallery of illustrations presented at a decent resolution if you want to print something out. In the meantime wish me luck as I pursue getting published by WotC and other RPG companies. And if anyone lives anywhere near JC and is part of a play group send me a message.

 

[scadgrad]

High, my name's scadgrad and I'm an old school grognard.

<group responds in a low monotone>Hi Scadgrad

So, I started in '78 with a PH and a MM and started running adventures with my little brother, having very little clue how the game actually worked. At some point within the next few months, I got the DMG and from that point forward I've been a stalwart DM.

Along the way, I've also had forays into:

Champions
Boot Hill
Star Frontiers
Gamma World
Call of Cthulu
Runequest
2nd Ed AD&D
Player's Option 2nd ed AD&D
Fantasy Hero
Western Hero
Vampire
Werewolf
Mage
D&D 3.0
D&D 3.5


Currently I run C&C w/ the "good parts" of 3.X mixed in. For me, it's the perfect mix and if you're an old school gamer, I can't recommend enough that you give C&C a try. After nearly a year of playing C&C I just can't see me ever going back to 3.X.

At any rate, 27 years of Old School and still going strong. Grognards of the World Unite and Take Over!