Which edition of D&D did you start with?

[Ozmar]

I voted 3.0. It was the first version I actually didn't hate, and the first one I agreed to play long-term.

Naturally everyone plays D&D, but before 3rd ed, I played it, but I didn't like it. It was like eating broccoli for gaming.

Ozmar the Veggie-Hater

 

[Ourph]

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.

The 2nd printing of the Holmes Basic Set had a monochrome blue box. The 1st and 3rd-7th had the colored boxes.

Interestingly, the 1st-3rd printings contained no adventure, but came with Monster & Treasure Assortment Set I and Dungeon Geomorphs Set I, the 4th-6th contained B1 In Search of the Unknown and th 6th-7th contained B2 Keep on the Borderlands (yeah, the 6th printing was mixed, guess they ran out of B1's ).

 

[Ottergame]

Naturally everyone plays D&D, but before 3rd ed, I played it, but I didn't like it. It was like eating broccoli for gaming.

For a while after I started playing, AD&D 2ed was all I knew. I started playing in 97, and while I knew perfectly well other games existed (I bought Shadowrun books instead of buying AD&D books when I started playing AD&D, relying on loaned copies of the books to get by in the campaign. )

I really did not like 2ed ed though. Even when it was the only RPG I had ever played, I did not like it. I thought the rules were to full of holes, the system had restrictions that made no sense. I bought the new D&D books the day they hit the shelves. Me and a few other people all bought the books at the FLGS and played. Although we played badly, by the next week we had read and understood the rules, and it was if a huge weight had been lift from my shoulders. OPTIONS in place of restrictions. In print rules for common situations. It made sense and it was fun. I would sooner burn in hell then play 2ed ed again.

 

[mikedidthis]

The Holmes blue-box basic set back in 1980. Ahh, to be 12 again...

 

[Staffan]

I voted for 2nd ed AD&D, but I did have a Swedish translation of the Mentzer Basic D&D. Never played or ran it, though.

 

[RFisher]

I started with a Moldvay Basic Set, but I when I finally got into a regular group, we played Traveller. (Now called "classic Traveller".) After a bit we merged with another group, and then we bounced mostly between Traveller & OAD&D.

Moldvay's is the only real Basic D&D. All others are just poor immitations of the real thing.

Nice joke Mousferatu!

That's no joke.

I don't care if he did put a smiley there.

I'm really glad I kept my old Basic & Expert Sets all these years, even though I didn't play them much, and even through my "(A)D&D blows" phase; because now they're my favorite game.

 

[drowdude]

AD&D Second Edition...

...oddly enough the first book I ever bought was Drow of the Underdark

 

[d4]

the Moldvay magenta box / red rule book set of Basic D&D. i guess it was 1982? i quickly followed that up with the blue Expert D&D box.

and then i made a mistake i bet a lot of kids at the time made -- i thought Advanced D&D was the next "step" after Expert, and got the PHB, MM, and DMG. gee, that sure got me confused...

 

[CrusaderX]

Purple Erol Otus Basic D&D set for me!

 

[EricNoah]

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

*snicker* heh... good thing too, that would have been confusing!