So how long have YOU been playing D&D?

[Aust Diamondew]

Since '98. Can't believe its been that long, soon it'll be a decade

 

[HellHound]

1979, just like the Hound.

Weirdness is that my nickname in Ottawa is "The Hound".

It's a small world.

 

[fusangite]

I started playin in 1981 with the second edition of the Basic Set. The game was prescribed to me by a child psychiatrist.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Christmas '80. First time I ever played I was the DM! Fortunately, my 3 days of reading the book put me 3 days up on any of the other players, so it turned out ok

 

[Plane Sailing]

Started in summer 1975 after reading a review of D&D in 'Games and Puzzles' magazine. Couldn't afford to buy the three-book white box set so we made our own rules up. First D&D book I bought was Greyhawk (although the first actual RPG was probably metamorphasis Alpha by James Ward, along with issue 4 of the Dragon).

So about 31 years for me.

 

[Ranes]

Winter '77/'78 with a loaned copy of the PHB (which was returned to me a couple of years ago after having gone missing for over twenty years). I recently said in another thread that I had never played a monk but I now recall that's exactly what I did play in my first game.

 

[3d6]

I started playing D&D with the release of 3rd edition.

 

[Henrix]

I played my first game when 1980 was just a week old. I was twelve at the time, and I've been hooked on RPGs ever since.

 

[drothgery]

1994, summer after high school (and the first real sustained campaign was that fall). Almost certainly would have been younger if I hadn't moved around so much...

 

[Bloodstone Press]

Started in 84 when I was 10. My dad and his friends invited me to play in their game that had already been going for a few years (since 82 probably). It was a friday night. I remeber that I couldn't sleep when we got home after that first game because my head was full of ideas about flaming arrows, knights, and ruins in the jungle. The next morning I DMed my first game with two of my friends and everything after that is a blur.