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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fjw70" data-source="post: 6567224" data-attributes="member: 80924">My journey started in 1982 with the Moldvay basic game. After a few months with that and the Cook Expert set it was on to AD&D (who wants to play basic when you can play Advanced -- or so my teenaged self thought).After graduating from high school in 1988 and joining the army I quickly stopped playing. A mini-campaign over the 1988 Christmas break was the end of that era for me. I tried to get a game going (using the newly released 2e rules) in 1989 but it never got off the ground.During the 90s I would occasionally go to a game or book store and check out the latest D&D releases and even picked up a couple things (I was fascinated by Spelljammer) but still did not play. I eventually stopped paying attention to new releases.Then in 2000 I heard about a new edition being released. I picked up the 3e player's handbook and thought it looked great. Loved the d20 system with things like ascending AC and a fully fleshed out skill system. But since during that time I was working on my career, starting graduate school, and starting to have kids I never thought about gaming.Fast forward to 2007. Graduate school was over and I had three kids with my oldest around 5-6 and getting interested in games so I started looking at D&D again.  Not playing yet, but picking up classic D&D pdfs from Paizo, reassembling my physical book collection, and listening to the D&D podcast with Mearls & Noonan.Then I heard about the release of 4e and thought it was a good time to start playing again. So I played a lot of 4e over the last 7 years or so with a little BX, AD&D, and Next mixed in.  The last 6-9 months has strictly been 5e (when I have a chance to play). I love 5e while still loving 4e and BX as well.  The basic 5e game is an updated BX for me with the full game an updated AD&D.</blockquote>

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