Which edition of D&D did you start with?

[Ghostknight]

Heh, I also started off on that white box set- back in 1979. Back then everyone thought we were really strange playing this really strange game- especially since the only shop carrying roleplaying stuff was a book store that also sold esoterics!

My mother heard the horror stories going around and spent a lot of time worrying that I was going to get "too involved" and go mad. When Mazes and Monsters (the book) came out, she bought it for me to read as she thought it was an actual incident and was trying to get me to stop playing. (Yeah, she knows that flat out forbidding me would have resulted in me DEFINITELY carrying on )

 

[Shag]

Started in '88 with the red box, moved up through the blue, green, black and gold boxes then got 2nd edition just after it came out.

We were really young and played all the way on our trip to Manitoulin Island.

Fought a few goblins and talked to a magic crystal statue that was in the centre of a fountain.
It gave me a magic ring of Invisibility!

Oh BTW, My character was a Halfling named Bildo or something.

 

[derelictjay]

I began with 1e DnD circa 1989, we down here in the South end of Hades (Texas Ya'll), had trouble getting 2e DnD and I didn't play it until 1992, woohoo.

 

[Marius Delphus]

Same as VorpalBunny and Vaxalon... except I remember the box cover being monochrome blue. What's up with that? Am I losing valuable gaming nostalgia to the vagaries of age? I know for certain the *rulebook* cover was monochrome blue.

 

[thundershot]

I started with that.

Then, a couple years later when I wanted the EXPERT rules, it was the newer blue box... continued with companion, master, and immortals rules (and eventually got the newer basic red box), ignoring AD&D for the most part. Then AD&D 2E came out, and I jumped on the bandwagon from the start... and it lasted until 3E came out... blah blah blah... All in the same campaign world, too.



Chris

 

[Fulcan]

Expert Rulebook

My first version was The blue Expert Rulebook. No wonder I was so confused when I started. I just now pulled it out and noticed that it refers to the Basic Set.

I think I bought it because I was drawn to the Elmore art in it.

 

[Remathilis]

Rules Cyclopedia (circa 1992) - but began with the First Large Box Version of D&D that had Zanzer Tem's Dungeon.

Moved on to 2e and 1994m then 3e and 3.5.

 

[AIM-54]

I first played in '93 with 2nd Edition, didn't start really playing until '95, DMing straight out of the PHB. Picking up books then, I was just in time for the reprint with the snazzy art and superior layout to the old "blue" 2E books. Sorta dropped out of it by the end of high school, in favor of Battletech and Shadowrun, but got pulled back in when 3rd Edition came out. Got the 3E PHB just in time for 3.5 to come out and then moved down here for grad school and met up with a 3.5 group, so that's what I play...except when I go home and get to play sweet, sweet Shadowrun.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Started with the Red Box set up thru the Immortals Set (of course we never played any pc up that far).

Went from the Companion Set (Sea Green or Aqua colored box) to AD&D. Not actually a complete change over I didn't realize it was different rules and such at the time.

So really we played the Basic set rules with ANY module up until 3E.
THen I got all my ducks in a row

 

[qstor]

I started with the Basic set with the red dragon on the cover like Vorpal Bunny posted when I was around 12...brings back memories...Mine had B1 in Search of the Unknown in it. I think there were different editions.

Mike