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<blockquote data-quote="athos" data-source="post: 5405370" data-attributes="member: 32605"><p>I first got the basic D&D blue set around late 76 or early 77. I don't think I did more than actually roll up a few characters and create a dungeon or two, it was too "vague" for me at age 10.</p><p> </p><p>Later in the year, when the PHB, DMG and MM came out for 1st edition AD&D, I was truly hooked. They had a LOT more detail, and I could work better with them. I quickly enlisted 3 guys in the neighborhood and started a campaign. ALL of my paper route money was going into gaming, I was an addict. I clearly remember the judges guild citystates which were wonderful, and then when they released Greyhawk, that was truly a great setting.</p><p> </p><p>I played up to 87 or so, and then took a leave from gaming to do a stent in the army. But when I got out in 92, Dark Sun was fairly new, so I picked up 2nd edition and got all my fellow computer programmers at work hooked on it. Once again, I took a leave of gaming, and didn't get back into it until 3.5 came out where I am holding the line. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Too old and too stubborn to go with newer systems so those are the years I learned basic, 1st ed., 2nd ed. and 3.5.</p><p> </p><p>In all fairness, I did learn 4th ed. in like 2008, or at least I think it was then that Living Greyhawk switched over to Living Forgotten Realms, but after a couple months of it, I went back to 3.5 and have forgotten most if not everything about 4th.</p><p> </p><p>Reading this thread it is really amazing how many people started around age 9 or 10. My daughter is in middle school now and loves fantasy books, although she has stopped gaming since they killed Living Greyhawk. I guess kids are really open to the idea of magic, monsters, and alternate worlds, and pick up on gaming quickly.</p><p> </p><p>It is too bad that the video games out now are such a bigger draw than RPGs. I watched my nephew play WoW and someone came up and "spit" on his character. I was shocked. In table top RPGs, such a thing would never happen. Unfortuneately I think the old games and gamers will fade into the wood work as newer and "better" video games come out. But, on the plus side, it looks like a lot of us that got into gaming at a young age are still hanging in there <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="athos, post: 5405370, member: 32605"] I first got the basic D&D blue set around late 76 or early 77. I don't think I did more than actually roll up a few characters and create a dungeon or two, it was too "vague" for me at age 10. Later in the year, when the PHB, DMG and MM came out for 1st edition AD&D, I was truly hooked. They had a LOT more detail, and I could work better with them. I quickly enlisted 3 guys in the neighborhood and started a campaign. ALL of my paper route money was going into gaming, I was an addict. I clearly remember the judges guild citystates which were wonderful, and then when they released Greyhawk, that was truly a great setting. I played up to 87 or so, and then took a leave from gaming to do a stent in the army. But when I got out in 92, Dark Sun was fairly new, so I picked up 2nd edition and got all my fellow computer programmers at work hooked on it. Once again, I took a leave of gaming, and didn't get back into it until 3.5 came out where I am holding the line. :) Too old and too stubborn to go with newer systems so those are the years I learned basic, 1st ed., 2nd ed. and 3.5. In all fairness, I did learn 4th ed. in like 2008, or at least I think it was then that Living Greyhawk switched over to Living Forgotten Realms, but after a couple months of it, I went back to 3.5 and have forgotten most if not everything about 4th. Reading this thread it is really amazing how many people started around age 9 or 10. My daughter is in middle school now and loves fantasy books, although she has stopped gaming since they killed Living Greyhawk. I guess kids are really open to the idea of magic, monsters, and alternate worlds, and pick up on gaming quickly. It is too bad that the video games out now are such a bigger draw than RPGs. I watched my nephew play WoW and someone came up and "spit" on his character. I was shocked. In table top RPGs, such a thing would never happen. Unfortuneately I think the old games and gamers will fade into the wood work as newer and "better" video games come out. But, on the plus side, it looks like a lot of us that got into gaming at a young age are still hanging in there :) [/QUOTE]
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