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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6568514" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>My first exposure to RPGs in general was via a friend in 3rd grade. I remember that he mentioned that wizards could create walls of stone, and I thought that was awesome. The first game we played was the Swedish game Drakar och Demoner, which was originally based on Basic Roleplaying (which in turn was based on Runequest) but even that early had evolved a bit on its own.</p><p></p><p>My first exposure to D&D was via the Swedish translation of the Basic and Expert sets (the Expert set included some Companion rules as well). I didn't really care too much for that game - it felt too unrealistic, IMO. I also at some point got to look at a friend's brother's friend's AD&D books, which I didn't really understand at all because my English skills at that point weren't so good.</p><p></p><p>Around 1989 or 1990 I decided to get into AD&D, so I ordered the PHB and DMG (there was no FLGS in my home town, so I bought English-language RPGs by mail order). Since I had seen the 1e DMG before, I "knew" the basic stats for monsters were in there, so I wouldn't need the Monster Manual (or rather, Monstrous Compendium) quite yet. That was a mistake, because the 2e DMG had no such thing. Eventually I got the Monstrous Compendium and, at some point, Forgotten Realms Adventures. Yes, I got that before the FR boxed set. I thought it was cool, but didn't get to play it much.</p><p></p><p>Pretty soon, I saw an ad in the mail order catalog I was ordering from about Dark Sun, which seemed incredibly awesome. I bought that and the Complete Psionics Handbook, and that got me going for real. Somewhere around this point I also got involved with a proper gaming club, and spent a <em>lot</em> of time playing RPGs - often both Saturdays and Sundays, and perhaps Friday evenings as well. Not just AD&D of course, I also ran a lot of TORG, and was a player in quite a few other games.</p><p></p><p>Later I went to college and got involved with my current gaming group, give or take a few. For various reasons I had to move away from them a while, and during that period 3rd ed was released which was great. I eventually moved back some time after 3.5 was released, and we had great fun with that a while.</p><p></p><p>4e turned out to be a disappointment, so we moved to Pathfinder. Now 5e is out - one of the group is still running Rise of the Runelords (anniversary edition) in PF, and I've started running 5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 6568514, member: 907"] My first exposure to RPGs in general was via a friend in 3rd grade. I remember that he mentioned that wizards could create walls of stone, and I thought that was awesome. The first game we played was the Swedish game Drakar och Demoner, which was originally based on Basic Roleplaying (which in turn was based on Runequest) but even that early had evolved a bit on its own. My first exposure to D&D was via the Swedish translation of the Basic and Expert sets (the Expert set included some Companion rules as well). I didn't really care too much for that game - it felt too unrealistic, IMO. I also at some point got to look at a friend's brother's friend's AD&D books, which I didn't really understand at all because my English skills at that point weren't so good. Around 1989 or 1990 I decided to get into AD&D, so I ordered the PHB and DMG (there was no FLGS in my home town, so I bought English-language RPGs by mail order). Since I had seen the 1e DMG before, I "knew" the basic stats for monsters were in there, so I wouldn't need the Monster Manual (or rather, Monstrous Compendium) quite yet. That was a mistake, because the 2e DMG had no such thing. Eventually I got the Monstrous Compendium and, at some point, Forgotten Realms Adventures. Yes, I got that before the FR boxed set. I thought it was cool, but didn't get to play it much. Pretty soon, I saw an ad in the mail order catalog I was ordering from about Dark Sun, which seemed incredibly awesome. I bought that and the Complete Psionics Handbook, and that got me going for real. Somewhere around this point I also got involved with a proper gaming club, and spent a [I]lot[/I] of time playing RPGs - often both Saturdays and Sundays, and perhaps Friday evenings as well. Not just AD&D of course, I also ran a lot of TORG, and was a player in quite a few other games. Later I went to college and got involved with my current gaming group, give or take a few. For various reasons I had to move away from them a while, and during that period 3rd ed was released which was great. I eventually moved back some time after 3.5 was released, and we had great fun with that a while. 4e turned out to be a disappointment, so we moved to Pathfinder. Now 5e is out - one of the group is still running Rise of the Runelords (anniversary edition) in PF, and I've started running 5e. [/QUOTE]
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