Which edition of D&D did you start with?

[Krieg]

My first two purchases were the Moldavy Basic Set & the 1E MM.

I started out playing a hodge-podge of Basic/Expert & AD&D before moving fulltime to 1E AD&D after a year or so.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I started playing 2e in an afterschool club in highschool in spring of 94. The group met once a week in one of the classrooms. We met irregularly over summer and the group was down to 2 players and a dm that fall, so died out. Didn't get to play again until December of 97.

While I've gone through a couple of groups since then, I've been playing fairly regularly since then. I started playing 3e with a new group in June of 01, though it took til late in the year and many oneshots to teach the system before my 2e dm was convinced to switch.

We now play 3.5E in my various groups.

 

[s/LaSH]

I came in with this particular basic:

Did a very good job of introducing the rules to unconnected newbies such as myself. I started playing again with 3.0, many moons later, but Basic was my gateway to the wonderful world of regulated imagination.

 

[Zudrak]

My brother and I got the Basic D&D Set in 1981 with the terrific Erol Otus painting on it.

When we moved, we switched to the game that the kids in the new town were playing -- AD&D, because (they said) it allowed you to play a race AND a class together. Of course, we ended up playing humans, but it allowed us to eventually play dwarves and elves...

We skipped 2E out of spite (and life interruptus). When life allowed us to game again, we dove into 3E and then 3.5 (somewhat reluctantly).

 

[cdsaint]

Basic D&D, Lo these many many years ago.

Chris

 

[jeffh]

Basic D&D. Mentzer's basic set, but Moldvay's expert set; for a brief period when I first got into it, you couldn't get the Mentzer expert set. Either it was still a few months from being released or the places I knew of that had D&D (a nearby toy store and, of all places, a fabric store near my school!) didn't carry it. My first two purchases from a proper gaming store - Hobbit's II in Edmonton - were the Companion set and the first edition of DC Heroes, on the same trip; my sister bought some Judge's Guild module, old and out of print even then, which I still have, along with Bunnies & Burrows!

Does anyone else with the Moldvay expert set remember being really disapointed when the Companion set finally came out - and thieves didn't get the ton of new abilities the Moldvay set promised? (Mimic Voices, Power of Distraction whatever that was, something about climbing upside-down, and a couple of others I can't remember off the top of my head). Even so the Companion set seemed like far and away the best D&D product I had seen to that point, and I still felt that way for some years. Still ranks pretty high, actually.

 

[JDJarvis]

Started with the Holmes Basic set which was a slightly different beast from later basic sets.

 

[rgard]

I don't know if anyone's run this poll before, but I'm very curious.

I started with Basic D&D. Then moved onto 1E, then 2E, and now 3E.

I think it was the 'first' basic set. Came in a box, had warped (really warped, I remember not being able to roll a 12 on the d12) dice and had a blue rule book. Circa 1977.

 

[Sir Trent]

Hmm

Sorry to change the subject but this poll really illustrates the 'aging' of RPG players.

 

[RFisher]

Sorry to change the subject but this poll really illustrates the 'aging' of RPG players.

Or maybe that the D&D Basic Sets are the best introduction to the hobby for people of any age.

But you're probably right...