When Did You Start Playing D+D?

[tenkar]

I believe it was 1979. My best friend ran me thru a solo dungeon with only the DM's Guide. He had to call another friend who had the Player's Handbook to figure out if I had leveled

God bless my mom for buying me the DMG, PHB and a set of high quality dice for my birthday soon after. How she managed to ignore the demon on the cover of the DMG I'll never know... heh

 

[Thurbane]

I started when I was around 12 or 13, so I would guess at about 1984. I seem to remember listening to Van Halen too.

 

[Plane Sailing]

OD+D came out in 1974, and I took a guess that people either got in on that right at the start or not at all until D+D came out in 1977 or thereabouts, so I lumped 1975 and 76 together. And as so far there's no votes there, it seems I guessed right.

There are several of us now

I'm pretty sure that I started in 1975, although you'll excuse any memory lapses! I read a review of D&D in 'Games and Puzzles' magazine and a friend and I thought it sounded great. Unfortunately £6 for the white box set was waaaaay out of pocket money range, so we made up our own house rules for playing the game (probably about one A5 page all together!). It was later that year that someone introduced it at the wargames club I used to attend.

My first RPG purchases where Dragon issue 4, News from Bree issue 21, two percentile dice and Metamorphosis Alpha. My first D&D purchase was Greyhawk and then the following supplements.

Cheers

 

[Col_Pladoh]

I believe it was 1979. My best friend ran me thru a solo dungeon with only the DM's Guide. He had to call another friend who had the Player's Handbook to figure out if I had leveled

God bless my mom for buying me the DMG, PHB and a set of high quality dice for my birthday soon after. How she managed to ignore the demon on the cover of the DMG I'll never know... heh

Hey!

The red figure on cover of the DMG done by Dave Sutherland is a fire elemental, not a demon

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

There are several of us now

I'm pretty sure that I started in 1975, although you'll excuse any memory lapses! I read a review of D&D in 'Games and Puzzles' magazine and a friend and I thought it sounded great. Unfortunately £6 for the white box set was waaaaay out of pocket money range, so we made up our own house rules for playing the game (probably about one A5 page all together!). It was later that year that someone introduced it at the wargames club I used to attend.

My first RPG purchases where Dragon issue 4, News from Bree issue 21, two percentile dice and Metamorphosis Alpha. My first D&D purchase was Greyhawk and then the following supplements.

Cheers

I must interject that the purchase of the MA game was likely at the very time many of us at TSR were playing a lot of that game. For the campaign I ran I did a huge starship that has separate environmental pods radiating out from the main sphere. There were two factions in one of those pode, intelligent mutated ducks. We surely enjoyed a lot of play.

Jim Ward now has the 3rd edition of the Metamorphosis Alpha RPG in print, and it is better than ever! He GMs his campaign for our group regularly.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Hussar]

I always thought that was an efreeti.

Bloody fantastic pic though.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Mid to late eighties, that period kind of all melts together for me, but say between 85 and 88. Mostly because when my older brother left home he dumped his OD&D stuff on me rather than lug it around. Wish I'd kept it but it ended up being tossed while I was at Knox with quite a lot of early stuff I wish I still had.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

I always thought that was an efreeti.

Bloody fantastic pic though.

Yuppers, a fire elemental

Cheers,
Gary

 

[HalfOrc HalfBiscuit]

1977 for me. My brother had come home from university in 1976 entusing about this new game he'd been introduced to (though he's remained much more of a wargamer than an RPGer). Then for my birthday in March 1977 he gave me the three book white box set plus the Grayhawk supplement.

 

[tenkar]

Hey!

The red figure on cover of the DMG done by Dave Sutherland is a fire elemental, not a demon

Cheers,
Gary

Gary,

I happily stand corrected

I am amazed at how long D&D has been a part of my life... I owe you a drink and much more

Erik