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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8947502" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I started playing in the early-mid 80s. I never made a randomly generated dungeon. I would spend hours lovingly creating dungeons with graph paper and pencil, but never randomly generated.  I wonder if which boxed set you started with made a difference (most of us who started as kids started with a box set, at least in my experience).  I started with Moldvay Basic (Purple Box).  I know in earlier box sets, instead of a module, the game game with geomorps for randomly generating dungeons. The thing is, I remember that era as a time of a lot of experimentation with those into gaming having an unquenchable thirst for playing all manner of new games. With my middle-school son and his friends who regularly play D&D, it is the only TTRPG they play. I think that may be because they have so many other options now. Instead of D&D, plus a bunch of other TTRPGs, for them it is D&D and Magic, and a whole bunch of video games, board games, and card games. But for D&D 5e is the only TTRPG they play. It'll be interesting to see if they branch out as they move on to high school. In the 80s, my TTRPG journey went something like this:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Kept playing through Keep on the Borderlands because I thought that was the game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Started making my own dungeons </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Discovered other modules at Walden Books. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Discovered hex map exploration, went nuts with hex mapping</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Discovered and eventually saved up for AD&D hardcover books and their age inappropriate pictures and random tables--whee!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Explosion of playing other games with a growing group of gamer friends - Gamma World, Boot Hill, Paranoia, Star Frontiers, Warhammer Fantasy, etc.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">We started making our own games.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I went to college in '89 and, other than maybe once or twice in my freshman year, didn't play a TTRPG again until 2014/15. </li> </ol></blockquote>

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