When Did You Start Playing D+D?
- Thread starter Lanefan
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i was 17, some time durrng the 97-98 school year (my first year in college), at the Sci-Fi / Fantasy club... I'd been playing Westend Starwars and one of the guys invited me to his D&D game (AD&D). We played for a good while and I had a blast, but the game broke up before 3rd arrived.
Cyberknight
First Post
'79 for me, too.
Played over the weekend while at a Scout camp. Hooked immediately. My first book was the OE Players handbook. I took that with me every time I went camping. The book is still servicable even after running with it in a nasty thunderstorm and bending it almost in half. It just has a small crease right in the middle. I wish all books were as sturdy as that book.
Played over the weekend while at a Scout camp. Hooked immediately. My first book was the OE Players handbook. I took that with me every time I went camping. The book is still servicable even after running with it in a nasty thunderstorm and bending it almost in half. It just has a small crease right in the middle. I wish all books were as sturdy as that book.
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
Robert Ranting
First Post
1999...I think. I was a sophomore in Highschool, and a friend of mine had bought a discounted 2nd Ed. starter box with some pre-gen characters. I spent about 6 hours beneath a small town and interfered in the wars between Bugbears and Xvarts as Mitchifer the Cleric...I think I had a Dwarf NPC helping out as well.
When 3.0 came out, we both joined a game which met infrequently (with me reprising my role as a cleric...but with attack magic, which threw our DM for a loop the first session). It eventually tanked out, and I didn't play D&D again until College, where I had a Gnome Druid go up to mid-levels, and a Fighter/Rogue who barely made it to 5th level during a summer game.
My junior year of college (2003), I jumped ship and started playing, and eventually DMing, Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved exclusively. While elements of 3.5 have been worked into my campaigns, AE is and probably will remain the core system I run for the next several years, regardless of what shape 4E takes. Dungeons & Dragons was a gateway product for me, but I have no desire to go back.
Robert "I have time to Homebrew" Ranting
When 3.0 came out, we both joined a game which met infrequently (with me reprising my role as a cleric...but with attack magic, which threw our DM for a loop the first session). It eventually tanked out, and I didn't play D&D again until College, where I had a Gnome Druid go up to mid-levels, and a Fighter/Rogue who barely made it to 5th level during a summer game.
My junior year of college (2003), I jumped ship and started playing, and eventually DMing, Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved exclusively. While elements of 3.5 have been worked into my campaigns, AE is and probably will remain the core system I run for the next several years, regardless of what shape 4E takes. Dungeons & Dragons was a gateway product for me, but I have no desire to go back.
Robert "I have time to Homebrew" Ranting
Sound of Azure
Contemplative Soul
I started during the school holidays in between 1991 and 1992 (I was 11 years old). I'd been invited to play in a Robotech game before that (I was thrown out after 2 sessions for choosing "nonessential" skills... like cooking, and diplomacy. 
My friend lent me some of his SSI D&D games like Curse of the Azure Bonds, and that got me interested. Pretty soon after that point I was a dedicated dungeon delver, although we only had the Player's handbook and the Monstrous Manual.
By the end of '92 I'd stopped playing to until 1996, when I picked up Planescape and the skills and powers set (mostly one-on-one, buoth as player and DM). I first DMed for a group on the advent of 3rd Edition.
My friend lent me some of his SSI D&D games like Curse of the Azure Bonds, and that got me interested. Pretty soon after that point I was a dedicated dungeon delver, although we only had the Player's handbook and the Monstrous Manual. By the end of '92 I'd stopped playing to until 1996, when I picked up Planescape and the skills and powers set (mostly one-on-one, buoth as player and DM). I first DMed for a group on the advent of 3rd Edition.
1980s
1988 I think, in high school
my little brothers mates all played it and I had a go, a few years later I suddenly realised I was the fulltime DM and my campaign world has continued thru several editions of the rules and various players ever since.
80+ years of campaign time has passed in that time and my brothers high school characters are distant legends to my current players characters.
1988 I think, in high school
my little brothers mates all played it and I had a go, a few years later I suddenly realised I was the fulltime DM and my campaign world has continued thru several editions of the rules and various players ever since.
80+ years of campaign time has passed in that time and my brothers high school characters are distant legends to my current players characters.
Gilladian
Adventurer
75 or 76, not sure which. I was 10 or 11 when my brother brought it home from boy-scouts. We didn't have a set of rules for a few weeks. So Tod wrote his own. We got the blue boxed set later. I still remember my first cleric - stung to death by giant bees. I still use the name of my first dwarf fighter as my avatar name online.
Gilladian
Gilladian
DerHauptman
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BEGIN trip down memory lane...
I grew up in Indianapolis, I think I got serious about gaming in 1978 which was when I got my box of rules - but I played in a few games at the local Hobby Store the year before but I really had no idea what I was doing.
It was a blue box with a dragon on it IIRC. I did get the PHB, MM and the the DMG soon after. It took a sweet advance on my allowance to get them all at the same time.
I remember my Mom being a good sport about taking me and my buddies across town to get dice and mini's since we had to drive from Greenwood IN to Castelton Square Mall to get them.
I could get modules and crap in the Greenwood Mall but they didn't carry dice or mini's.
Many a snow day were spent at my house playing till the wee hours. When my parents started taking weekend trips (I was bout 13-14) they'd leave me at home with pizza money and the 6-7 of us would marathon the weekends away barely taking time to eat.
I wish I had 1/10 of the time I had then to play I really do.
END trip down memory lane....
I grew up in Indianapolis, I think I got serious about gaming in 1978 which was when I got my box of rules - but I played in a few games at the local Hobby Store the year before but I really had no idea what I was doing.
It was a blue box with a dragon on it IIRC. I did get the PHB, MM and the the DMG soon after. It took a sweet advance on my allowance to get them all at the same time.
I remember my Mom being a good sport about taking me and my buddies across town to get dice and mini's since we had to drive from Greenwood IN to Castelton Square Mall to get them.
I could get modules and crap in the Greenwood Mall but they didn't carry dice or mini's.
Many a snow day were spent at my house playing till the wee hours. When my parents started taking weekend trips (I was bout 13-14) they'd leave me at home with pizza money and the 6-7 of us would marathon the weekends away barely taking time to eat.
I wish I had 1/10 of the time I had then to play I really do.
END trip down memory lane....
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