Hand of Evil
Adventurer
1976 with Chainmail and some D&D then moved to AD&D in 77. My younger brother and his group needed a DM and got hooked.
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GuyBoy
Adventurer
Also played and enjoyed Runequest, Gamma World in late 1970s/ early 80s, and made use of lots of Judges Guild stuff in D&D campaigns.
Getting a bit more obscure, I also got to play a short campaign in a rare system called Bifrost. It was a British rule set, quite complex but I remember it fondly, maybe due to a good DM.
Anyone else ever play it?
Getting a bit more obscure, I also got to play a short campaign in a rare system called Bifrost. It was a British rule set, quite complex but I remember it fondly, maybe due to a good DM.
Anyone else ever play it?
Moldvay Basic in 1981.
Lots of related answers over at: D&D General - Did you get your start playing D&D, and what do you play now?
Lots of related answers over at: D&D General - Did you get your start playing D&D, and what do you play now?
TheAlkaizer
Game Designer
Reading the other replies, I feel like the imposter.
First time I played D&D was probably in 2001 or 2002. Played one session of 2nd edition with a teacher. I didn't understand much. And a few weeks later a friend got the 3rd edition Player's Handbook and we started short 3rd edition campaign with that teacher.
First time I played D&D was probably in 2001 or 2002. Played one session of 2nd edition with a teacher. I didn't understand much. And a few weeks later a friend got the 3rd edition Player's Handbook and we started short 3rd edition campaign with that teacher.
GuyBoy
Adventurer
You’re definitely not an imposter. Doesn’t matter where, when, how you started. Just enjoy.
We all fight owlbears......
John Desmarais
Explorer
1984 (I think), RuneQuest.
1985, D&D. But not that D&D, this D&D:
(Though it's usually abbreviated DoD in order to differentiate it from Dungeons & Dragons.)
The original edition of Drakar och Demoner was a straight translation of Basic Roleplaying + Magic World, but this was a somewhat later edition that had evolved in a direction of its own.
(Though it's usually abbreviated DoD in order to differentiate it from Dungeons & Dragons.)
The original edition of Drakar och Demoner was a straight translation of Basic Roleplaying + Magic World, but this was a somewhat later edition that had evolved in a direction of its own.
Thomas Shey
Hero
Three little beige books plus Greyhawk in 1975. Only stayed with it a few years before moving off to other things; RuneQuest and Champions probably had much more influence on me overall.
Learned at SF Cons in Southern California, and absorbed the kind wide-ranging expectations they had (probably just as well; don't think the more "traditional" approach in some other areas would have grabbed me as much).
Learned at SF Cons in Southern California, and absorbed the kind wide-ranging expectations they had (probably just as well; don't think the more "traditional" approach in some other areas would have grabbed me as much).
Argyle King
Legend
I attempted to start somewhere in the late 80s to early 90s, but the Satanic Panic prevented me from being allowed to buy D&D books.
Sometime around 2002-2003, I was between combat tours and the rec center where I was had some old Rifts books. That was my first time actually playing a ttrpg. (I very vaguely remember the story involving a super-computer which had become a self-aware megalomaniac.)
At some point, I started playing D&D 3rd Edition. Eventually, I picked up D&D 4th Edition. I think somewhere around the first year or two of D&D 4E, I picked up GURPS 4th Edition and started playing that as my primary game.
I've dabbled a little in Heroes Unlimited and the first edition of Pathfinder.
Currently I'm active as a player in a D&D 5th Edition game. GURPS and Edge of the Empire are my favorite games to play.
Sometime around 2002-2003, I was between combat tours and the rec center where I was had some old Rifts books. That was my first time actually playing a ttrpg. (I very vaguely remember the story involving a super-computer which had become a self-aware megalomaniac.)
At some point, I started playing D&D 3rd Edition. Eventually, I picked up D&D 4th Edition. I think somewhere around the first year or two of D&D 4E, I picked up GURPS 4th Edition and started playing that as my primary game.
I've dabbled a little in Heroes Unlimited and the first edition of Pathfinder.
Currently I'm active as a player in a D&D 5th Edition game. GURPS and Edge of the Empire are my favorite games to play.
zarionofarabel
Adventurer
1988, D&D Red Box. Taught myself to DM with a small group of friends as players. Switched to WEG Star Wars shortly thereafter.
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
1980.
War Games Club at high school.
D&D, Gamma World, Traveller little black books (solo), Champions, Starfire (solo), Star Fleet Battles, Boot Hill (once or twice), Star Frontiers (once or twice), Squad Leader (once), Guns of August (once), Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (once) - in no particular order.
Due to Satanic Panic, emphasized Champions, SFB and especially GW.
War Games Club at high school.
D&D, Gamma World, Traveller little black books (solo), Champions, Starfire (solo), Star Fleet Battles, Boot Hill (once or twice), Star Frontiers (once or twice), Squad Leader (once), Guns of August (once), Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (once) - in no particular order.
Due to Satanic Panic, emphasized Champions, SFB and especially GW.
Li Shenron
Legend
Early 90s with BECMI re-release boxed set, one of my best friend had received this as a gift and started DMing the game for us.
aramis erak
Hero
I started summer of 1981.
It was AD&D 1E.
The only parts of the gaming scene I knew were ...
- the guys I gamed with: JW, AF, BW, BW, AG...
- The guys I knew gamed but with whom I didn't game: RO (who had showed me his copy of Holmes), and someone else in the same 5th grade class who brought in the D&D digital boardgame.
- The one clerk at Long's Drugs who stocked the games aisle, and pointed me at the least expensive way into D&D... the brand new Moldvay rules... I had to cheap out - bought just the book and a dice pack, as I was a dollar shy of the boxed set.
eyeheartawk
Works 60% of the time, every time
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Committed Hero
Explorer
'80 or '81, the tail end of grade school. If anyone has read The Monsters Know What They're Doing, I had the exact same reaction to the review of D&D in Games magazine. There was no way a game could do all the stuff that the reviewer mentioned! But once I played with some friends - the earliest module I recall using was G2 - and was hooked.
GuyBoy
Adventurer
Thanks for this.
I enjoyed the read, and it brought back memories. The armour being used as a multiplier of hit points was pretty elegant, and I remember all abilities being done on a d10, but if you rolled a natural 10, you rolled a second d10, so scores were 1-20 in theory, but 1-10 was more common as a range. Having an 11 or more made you exceptional in that area.
I can also remember that my character was called Beccara and we battled against a werewolf-cult devoted to Fenris. Pretty visceral stuff.
Lord Shark
Explorer
1979, Holmes Basic.
