Nearing 100000 members - How did you find En World?

[LightPhoenix]

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.

People on Usenet creepy? No way!

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.

At some point, the old accounts were wiped, which is why no one has a join date before 2002. So everyone's street cred was lost anyway.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I think I Googled "hot italian beef" and ended up here.

For pic...
http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...ic-noah-8-years-morrus-10-years-en-world.html

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4905620-post17.html

 

[Derulbaskul]

I've been here, primarily lurking, since the very first Eric Noah boards from some time in 1999.

I had just moved to Singapore from Oz and was still finding a social life etc... so spent a bit more time than usual on the 'net. I remember I used to go to Flat Earth Games for the random plot creator and it was there that I saw a link to Eric's site as a source of rumours for 3rd edition.

I can remember the sense of amazement over the 3E rumours: a sense of logic underpinning the design (rather than Gygaxian randomness), free and legal availability of most of the rules and tactical combat.

I can also remember when col_pladoh outed himself as Gary Gygax and I can remember being so amazed that he was a really good guy because some of his Dragon editorials seemed to be the work of a pontificating control freak.

I'm still in Singapore, most of the time, and I'm still lurking here more than 11 years later.

 

[weiknarf]

I read the official D&D forums through their backdoor newsgroup on outlook and found out about Eric Noah's 3rd Edition D&D News and Rumors.

 

[davethegame]

Went looking for information about this upcoming "3rd edition" of Dungeons & Dragons that had been announced, found Eric Noah's site (probably through Usenet or at a convention), started going there regularly up through the release. Probably the only time I had a regular subscription to print version of Dragon was at that time for upcoming tidbits about 3e that we could work into our last 2e campaign.

I followed along until it became ENWorld and hung out there... I think it was a really long time before I registered for an account to actually post. My registration date to amount of posts probably backs up how much more comfortable I am as a lurker on a message board

 

[Imperialus]

Came here from Eric Noah's Unofficial 3rd Edition News shortly after 3rd ed came out and myself and a few other forumites started trying to develop a campaign setting called Daemonforge.

 

[Mircoles]

Came here to read a review of an rpg i wanted more info on. I registered to post a comment.

I didn't come here regularly until the 4e reviews started and have been coming here regularly ever since. Though, I mostly lurk and occasionally post.

 

[Jhaelen]

I cannot quite remember, to be honest. I 'think' I found out about the site because of frequent links over at WotCs. The reason I made the move was the Gleemax disaster.

 

[MortalPlague]

When Gleemax came along, I bailed and came here.

It wasn't the only reason I crossed over, but Gleemax made those boards pretty much unusable.

 

[Gulla]

After mailinglists and the rec.games.frp.* Usenet groups I found Eric's site some months before 3e. Lurking a lot and being slow to switch over (took me several months to get a new user)

Still reading at least every second day, but seems I'm closing down on 1 post a month. I need more free time...