Scott_Rouse
Explorer
So as a follow up, if you got D&D as a gift was the gift giver a D&D player or was it a chance encounter?
Was Santa Claus the reason you started playing D&D?
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When I was 12 or 13, my friends and I were way into console RPGs, the Final Fantasy series high among those. The words "RPG" and "Roleplaying Game" were buzzwords for our favorite passtimes, so we'd look everywhere for them, including at the local library. The library never had any books about Final Fantasy (except the cheesy gamer magazines), but looking for "roleplaying game" introduced us to some well-used tomes with the letters "D&D". It was 1999.
Incidentally, I didn't actually buy into D&D until the following summer. You see, the library had a 1st Edition Player's Handbook and a 2nd Edition Dungeon Master's Guide (and Monster Manuals for each edition). Between those two books, it's probably no surprise I couldn't make heads or tails of this game, so I decided to wait for this thing they were advertising as "3E".
Incidentally, I didn't actually buy into D&D until the following summer. You see, the library had a 1st Edition Player's Handbook and a 2nd Edition Dungeon Master's Guide (and Monster Manuals for each edition). Between those two books, it's probably no surprise I couldn't make heads or tails of this game, so I decided to wait for this thing they were advertising as "3E".
Mean Eyed Cat
Explorer
Yes he did!!!. When I was 12, I visited my cousin in California during the summer. He introduced me to D&D and we had a blast. That winter, I got a bunch of AD&D books for xmas. Thanks Santa!
Of course, I have it on good authority that Santa is actually a multiclassed Druid/Cleric/Rogue and he would have no qualms about giving D&D books to all the good boys & girls.
Of course, I have it on good authority that Santa is actually a multiclassed Druid/Cleric/Rogue and he would have no qualms about giving D&D books to all the good boys & girls.
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
Not me!
A friend's family used to subscribe to "Games and Puzzles" magazine, which had an article about this new "D&D" game back in 1975, I thought it sounded great, but no way could I afford it, so I wrote my own rules (one side of A5), drew a dungeon and that's how we got started!
My first RPG purchase was in 1976 when I bought Dragon issue 4, News From Bree issue 20 and Metamorphosis Alpha plus a couple of percentage dice. This was quickly followed by "Supplement 1 - Greyhawk" which enabled me to bring my D&D house rules much closer to the actual thing!
Cheers
A friend's family used to subscribe to "Games and Puzzles" magazine, which had an article about this new "D&D" game back in 1975, I thought it sounded great, but no way could I afford it, so I wrote my own rules (one side of A5), drew a dungeon and that's how we got started!
My first RPG purchase was in 1976 when I bought Dragon issue 4, News From Bree issue 20 and Metamorphosis Alpha plus a couple of percentage dice. This was quickly followed by "Supplement 1 - Greyhawk" which enabled me to bring my D&D house rules much closer to the actual thing!
Cheers
cwhs01
First Post
I started playing with a friend who had gotten the blue set (expert ?), as a birthdaygift when they were 10 or 11 years old. Ofcourse we didn't use any of the official rules in the beginning, just the d10
Rules were instead: high is good/succesful. Low is a miss. Lots of stolen policecars, rocketlaunchers, machineguns and car chases. And as i recall, with a lot of impro and little common sense, cohessive story or even characterisation.
Very indy, very story-now
Ofcourse that was about 20 years ago. Now its all rules, rules, rules.
Kinda ironic actually
Rules were instead: high is good/succesful. Low is a miss. Lots of stolen policecars, rocketlaunchers, machineguns and car chases. And as i recall, with a lot of impro and little common sense, cohessive story or even characterisation.
Very indy, very story-now
Ofcourse that was about 20 years ago. Now its all rules, rules, rules.
Kinda ironic actually
Klaus
First Post
Nope. Back in the 7th grade I saw this kid reading the AD&D1e Player's Handbook (Easley cover) during recess and I asked him what it was about. When I learned that it was related to the D&D cartoon (which was named Cavern of the Dragon here, so no immediate title recognition), I wanted to try it. This was 1987.I posted this as a thread over on the WotC boards but since some of you don't post there I thought it was an interesting question to pose over here also.
From the WotC thread
I bought my own books when I travelled to New York in 1990 (and I was very surprised to know it was a new edition!). I sold my saxophone to have spending money for that trip, and spent most of it on the three 2e core books, the entire Monstrous Compendium (and several appendices), the Kara-Tur and City of Greyhawk boxed sets, the Greyhawk and Dragonlance Adventures hardcovers, the Legends & Lore hardcover and one of those golf-ball d100.
My original DM inherited his books from his cousin.
Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
Yeah, the Pink Box was a Christmas gift (though a friend had introduced me to D&D before that with his Pink Box). Expert set was the following birthday. No looking back after that.
Henrix
Explorer
Well, I got my first D&D stuff as a gift, even though it was half a year after I'd started playing (both at a club, heavily houseruled by Oldtimer, and at home with friends, making up the rules from what I remembered as we got along).
My mother got a visit from an english friend, and he brought me the AD&D PHB and MM in the Games Workshop softcover version.
I still have that PHB, though it's a bit tattered
My mother got a visit from an english friend, and he brought me the AD&D PHB and MM in the Games Workshop softcover version.
I still have that PHB, though it's a bit tattered
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