Nearing 100000 members - How did you find En World?

[billd91]

Came to ENWorld from Eric Noah's 3rd edition news site. How I found that, I'm not sure...
I suspect ADND-L is to blame for that.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Kamikaze Midget
The ladies hold on tight.

Who cares what else falls off?

varooooooom.

Dannyalcatraz
"If you can read this, the Lich fell off."

El Mahdi
That gives an added dimension to the term "Old Lady"...
*sigh*

Just be responsible, guys. Use a proper prophylactery.

We are sooooo selling this at Stirges.

 

[Chainsaw]

I remember having an account back in the late 1990s, when Eric Noah still owned ENWorld and 3E was just speculation. I think I ran across the site looking for 3E rumors. After flirting with 3E briefly after college, I pretty much left the game until around 2008. Wish I still had my old account for the Street Cred.

 

[tuxgeo]

Must spread some xp around... blah blah...

Covered.

For the last few years, EN World has been my go-to source for anything RPG-related. The wealth of information and the great community here is second to none. How did I wind up here? Well, I drew this encounter:
. . .

[ Far Realms junk snipped for "sanity."]

I had been late to Usenet, mostly skipped IRC, never MUDDed, so of course I came to ENWorld late as well. I had been hooked on alt.fan.harry-potter for a few years, but my living situation took me far from the desktop PC where I had "Agent" installed, with all my Usenet caught-up settings, so I looked for something in the form of one of these h'yar "bulletin board" discussion groups instead.

Having long wondered about D&D, I had finally found the 3.5E SRD; and a web-search led me here. I'm drastically far behind on D&D (as with so much else) so I can't post based on vast experience; but I still post here anyway, based on sheer effrontery.

 

[FunkBGR]

Always been a lurker, but I started with Eric Noah's site, then lurked here, and even over at Circvs. I just lurk lurk lurk.

I've participated in the Ennies Awards the past few years, volunteering at the booths, and playing a game or two at GenCon, so I've met a couple of you in person.

 

[Serendipity]

In 2004 I did a google search for Gary Gygax, wondering what he'd been up to and it led me to the awesome thread(s) he had here.

 

[Stormonu]

It was a bit of a trek for me. I used to be part of the PlanetAD&D community until problems with the server made it physically unreachable. I reluctantly moved to the WotC boards but was never happy with the tone of the boards. Further, it seemed that the WotC folks would post/reveal things on this site instead of at the WotC boards, so more and more I started reading things here. When Gleemax came along, I bailed and came here.

I see no reason to go back to the WotC boards ever again. I find the community much nicer here, TYVM.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I just checked my old accounts (this is my third name here) and I originally joined in March of 2003. Which is about when I started playing and going online a lot. Still have no idea how I ended up here in the first place. I assume a link somewhere. I did not post much the first 2-3 years, and have only really stated to post a lot this last year.

 

[smetzger]

Changed screennames in '05 but I've been here since not very long after it first incarnated under Eric providing news and information about the then-upcoming 3rd Edition. Probably early 2000 Until then I spent most of my online time surfing rec.games.frp.dnd on Usenet. Most web-based message boards were kinda crappy and thin on posters so I was pretty happy with the place when it showed up. People here were also an order of magnitude more civilized than some of the insufferable Usenet creeps. Pretty much gave up Usenet for good after 2003 because there was almost nobody left worth talking or listening to. They were all HERE.

Congratulations on 100073 and counting!

I'll just quote you since that is me, except I never changed screen name.

 

[aboyd]

I came here in 2006, I think to search the forum posts for local games. I didn't post much the first couple of years, but then Gary Gygax died, and Michael made this tribute for the funeral that included tons & tons of En World members. I just barely made the cut, and was deeply, deeply happy to find my username on the memorial. After that, I couldn't stop posting. I just felt really grateful & warm toward the community.