Which edition of D&D did you start with?

[EricNoah]

The "first" basic set.

Me too -- as a player in module B1 (In Search of the Unknown) as my first adventure with my older foster brother DMing. 1979 I think it was, I was 11 years old.

I first DM'd this Basic set ...

...probably a year or two later with a couple of neighborhood friends (both girls!).

 

[Henry]

1981 Moldvay Edition Basic. If it weren't for Erol Otus' cover, I wouldn't be playing today.

Well, maybe I would, but I wouldn't have started until 1987 or so.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

The Red Box, baby.

AR

 

[Krellic]

The original white box and Greyhawk. Eldritch Wizardry, Blackmoor and Gods, Demi-gods and Heroes was my first excursion into mail-order I believe!

 

[kengar]

I started with Holmes Basic and moved on to 1e AD&D after it was released. I left the D&D fold for a while (playing mostly GURPS, Runequest & CoC) and came back for 3e. I dropped 3.X & d20 like a hot potato for Savage Worlds but still run a regular Moldvay Basic game online and -periodically- at the table.

 

[National Acrobat]

Blue

I started with the old Blue Basic Book, then went to 1E, 2E, 3E and now back to 1E again.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

The very first edition I played was 2nd Edition AD&D, so I voted for that.

However, I didn't become a regular D&D player until 3rd Edition.

Same here. Heck, I can't say I became a regular player until after 3.5 came out.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Me too -- as a player in module B1 (In Search of the Unknown) as my first adventure with my older foster brother DMing. 1979 I think it was, I was 11 years old.

Me too. Except it was my cousin DMing, it was 1980, I was 10, and I was me, not you.

 

[T. Foster]

I started with the 1983 Mentzer red-box Basic Set (with the two books and the Elmore cover art) in spring 1984, supplemented it with the 1981 Cook Expert rulebook (blue cover, Otis cover art) not realizing that there was a difference between this and the Mentzer/Elmore version, got the green-box Companion set when it was released that summer, and eventually switched over to AD&D sometime that fall. Played that until 2nd edition AD&D was released in 1989, played that for a year or so but didn't like it and gradually retreated back to 1st edition (as well as other non-D&D games: RQ, WFRP, Mythus, etc.).

 

[The_Universe]

I voted for 1E, because that's the first D&D I ever *played*, but I picked up the 2E hardcovers a couple of years before I ever got to actually play D&D.

So, I read the 2E PHB, DMG, and MM when I was in the 8th grade, but didn't get to play any sort of actual D&D until I was a freshman in High School.

Thanks, Mitch! I know you don't read this board, but that first game of DnD was awesome, even if we never got to finish it. We'll never know what happened to Adam's soul...