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[SteelDraco]

I think I probably heard about it first from the WotC chat room. It would have been Eric Noah's web page then... before 3e even came out. I was using stuff to run a 2.5e game while Eric was posting previews and scoops on the upcoming 3e.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

I was actually looking for information about the 3rd Edition rules because I had heard the next Bioware CRPG (Neverwinter Nights) was going to use them. And then I ended up getting back into P&P gaming as a result of the community here.

 

[Napftor]

Like many folk, I googled Eric's site and just followed the transition to enworld like a lemming.

 

[JoeBlank]

I am pretty sure that I did a google or yahoo search after hearing from a friend that a 3d edition was in the works. The results let me to Eric's pre-3e site.

 

[KB9JMQ]

I was just surfing with a search engine and typed in D & D.
One of the links was Eric's first site and it had just started a week or two before.
I had not played for several years at that point and his site got me hooked back into my favorite game.

 

[Templetroll]

I was doing a search for D&D info. ENWorld came up and was one great site to read. It was one I've tried to check every day.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Methinks I googled it...I lurked for a very long time...back around the time of Eric's site. Then went off a while and rediscovered this place a little over a year ago.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

What brought you to/OR/how did you find ENWorld?

I'd heard through the pipeline that a 3rd edition was coming out for D&D, which I hadn't played since my boycott around the release of 2nd. Ordinarily it wouldn't have registered on my radar, but I was burning out on Rifts/PFRPG and Vampire and was looking to get in touch with my roots, but at that point it was just a curiosity. I WASN'T GOING BACK TO D&D, NO WAY! But I made some peremptory searches online for info, and it became pretty clear that the clearinghouse for info was this "Eric Noah's 3rd Edition page". (This was early 2000.)

And what did I find?

Reams of info on everything. Man, he had the inside scoop. Feats? Loved it. Everything's a D20 roll? Loved it. Open multiclassing? Loved it. Open-source rules? Loved it.

So I not only became a born-again D&D fan, but I really got into the community around it.

So, short 0official answer: Yahoo, around spring of 2000. Long, unofficial answer (abridged): I guess you could say my entire life's journey led to here.

 

[Quickbeam]

I was only one number off last time, so let's see if we can't get a slight nudge in the right direction for Contest #15.

In answer to the question at hand, I actually ran a Yahoo! search for RPG websites a little over two years ago and EN World was one of the first items listed. After browsing around I settled here, and here I plan to stay !

 

[d20Dwarf]

I came when it switched over from Eric Noah's 3rd edition site.