What Generation of D&D are you?

[barsoomcore]

The Keep on the Borderlands! In Search of the Unknown! The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief!

...what's a steading?

My D&D set came with chits but you could buy dice even in darkest British Columbia in 1977.

Sigh. I was nine. I DM'ed my dad. He never played again, but he still talks about that night. Heh.

 

[ForceUser]

Though I was aware of D&D for several years prior, and even owned a couple of the incomprehensible 1E AD&D rulebooks (to a pre-teen, anyway), I didn't sit in my first D&D game until 1989. We used a mish-mash of basic D&D red box (with the Larry ELmore cover) and 2E Player's Handbook to run the game. I was in the 9th grade.

 

[optimizer]

Howdy!

I moved from wargames to the first Basic (blue cover) boxed set in the summer of '79, quickly moving on to AD&D that winter.

Mike

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

I can't really vote because the generations just sort of skip me...but anyhow. I started playing in about Generation 3.6. I started in 1996 by playing 1e with my grandmother and a few of our neighbors, then in '98 or '99 graduated to 2e where I was the DM and played with two pals of mine that were my age. I've been a rabid fan ever since I got into it...

 

[Tom Cashel]

3rd Gen, I s'pose. Not quite a Methuselah or Antediluvian.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well I started with 1e/Basic in 1984 or so. I guess second gen?

 

[Drago]

I'm a very early 2nd generation or a very late 1st gen'er .
I started in the summer of 1975 at the public library .

Haven't looked back since , many ,many hours of fun !

 

[Gospog]

Whoops!

Originally posted by Gospog

Started with 1st Ed D&D when I was 7 (1882).

You were 7 in 1882 ?! Damn your old.

Taloras,

I have two words for you: wooden dice.

 

[DDK]

Have you ever noticed that there is a certain prestige in being an old timer? I've never quite understood why people seem to want to be a gamer as soon in their life as possible. It's almost as if they feel smaller for having started playing the game later.

I'm proud to be a third generationer. I came into the fold just when they'd screwed everything up and I still played! And now I'm happy to be experienced enough to understand why 3rd ed is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better

 

[Forrester]

I started with the good ole red Basic set, moved to Expert, and then started 1E . . .

. . . just in time to buy a Deities & Demigods with stats for the Cthulhu mythos, not to mention munchkinny ole Elric. Woohoo!