When Did You Start Playing D+D?
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Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
To the best of my knowledge, Diaglo, you are renowned hereon for that very thingdiaglo said:quoted for truth.
check out the gamers seeking gamers forum on ENWurld. i've got a thread there.
Cheers,
Gary
noffham
Explorer
November 1974 here, and still happy to play any edition. We played Chainmail from early '72 on. Gary, like you I find I seldom have the chance to play rather than DM. Fortunately my players appreciate my efforts!
Never got to see a copy of the early manuscripts, they were always the "fabled relics" around my neck of the woods!
I'd like to try getting to the LGGC next year, if health and wealth permit. I'd love the chance to collect some autographs from you founding fathers!
Almost 32 years of fun; Lord I love this game!
Noffham
Never got to see a copy of the early manuscripts, they were always the "fabled relics" around my neck of the woods!
I'd like to try getting to the LGGC next year, if health and wealth permit. I'd love the chance to collect some autographs from you founding fathers!
Almost 32 years of fun; Lord I love this game!
Noffham
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Hi Noffham,noffham said:
You are indeed an "Old Timer," what with playing Chainmail before D&D, and picking up the latter game in 1974
I believe that Paul Stormberg plans another tabletop fantasy miniatures agme next year.The LGGC is small, intimate, and all the "name" gamers there are just hanging out and having fun, being gamers without pretention to any celebrity. Come on and see for yourself if all is well. Be sure and line up a room long before the con, though, as Lake Geneva is a tourist town. The reasonably priced motel rooms are usually booked early, although in some of the surrounding towns $60/night ones in decent motels can be found.
I suggest a search using the various booking companies such as Orbitz and Hotels.
Cheers,
Gary
Ranes
Adventurer
Late '78 was when it all started going wrong for me. 
Playing and DMing now more than at any time in the last twenty years. The only edition I've never played is Basic (though I have a copy). Wouldn't mind giving it a run for a one-off. But I won't go back to any older edition long term. Why? Because it would be great and I'd be playing D&D The Way It Was Meant To Be - and all that - and, after DMing for a couple for decades, I'd have a stack of hand-made house rules that looked suspiciously like 3.5!
I have a friend a couple of years older then me. I met him twenty-something years ago, through fellow gamers. He doesn't play D&D any more but he's always sworn he was playing in '73. Given the stories I've heard about "The Fantasy Game" manuscripts floating around and his contacts back in the early seventies, I'm beginning to believe him. I'm not going to tell him that though. He also has a penchant for exaggeration.
Playing and DMing now more than at any time in the last twenty years. The only edition I've never played is Basic (though I have a copy). Wouldn't mind giving it a run for a one-off. But I won't go back to any older edition long term. Why? Because it would be great and I'd be playing D&D The Way It Was Meant To Be - and all that - and, after DMing for a couple for decades, I'd have a stack of hand-made house rules that looked suspiciously like 3.5!I have a friend a couple of years older then me. I met him twenty-something years ago, through fellow gamers. He doesn't play D&D any more but he's always sworn he was playing in '73. Given the stories I've heard about "The Fantasy Game" manuscripts floating around and his contacts back in the early seventies, I'm beginning to believe him. I'm not going to tell him that though. He also has a penchant for exaggeration.
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
As I mailed out some score of photocopies of the first draft of the D&D rules ilate in 1972, a 50 pp. ms.; and a perhaos two or three dozen copies of the enlarged 2nd draft of 150 pp. length in the early spring of 1973, it is indeed possible your friend played in that year. I know for a fact that many copies of those draft rules were made from my original photocopies, as most of them were sent to college students that played wargames and military miniatures.Ranes said:
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
I do believe that the Trolls have the dates for next year's LGGC posted, but I am not sure. If not, holler and I'll pry those dates out of themnoffham said:
Cheers,
Gary
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