Which year did you start playing D&D

[Tav_Behemoth]

1980 - Holmes basic set, with chits! Tried to get my mom to make sense of the rules, w/o success; then found some older kids who knew what was up.

 

[Krieg]

1980 - During recess at my catholic elementary school.

That's pretty much what I expect, with a small peak around 2000 and another around the release of 2e.

It'll be interesting to see if there is in fact a surge in the late 80's corresponding with 2e given that it is often credited with driving folks away from the hobby rather than bringing them in.

 

[Quasqueton]

does Chainmail count?

I would think not, since the question is when did you start *D&D*.

Quasqueton

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

1776

I DM'd a game after the signing of the Declaration of Independance, but Hancock got mad when I killed his elf and tore my signature off the bottom. I'll tell you, George Washington was the bomb, his teeth were actually polyhedron dice and Ben Franklin played a mean Thief.

Of course, I always prefered playing Shadowrun with Lincoln GMing for us. JWB was just mad that his Troll Street Sam had been killed, it had nothing to do with politics.

 

[Taloras]

Its been almost 3 years now....will be in 2 days. Feb 16, 2002 was my first game. Never had the chance to before that, although the wish was there. I grew up in towns that didnt have anyone who knew what D&D was.......sad.

Oh yea.....most of you seem to have started playing before I was born(1983)

 

[jaerdaph]

1979 - High School Game Club moderated by Sister Maria, the coolest nun ever and affectionately nicknamed the Dungeon Delving Daughter of Charity!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Somewhere between '96 and '97 for me...don't remember exactly.

 

[loki44]

1979. I got kicked out of school that fall (don't ask) and my mother seemed to think I was running with the wrong crowd. One weekend she practically forced me to go try this "new game" with the son of one of her friends. The rest is history...

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

1979. I got kicked out of school that fall (don't ask) and my mother seemed to think I was running with the wrong crowd. One weekend she practically forced me to go try this "new game" with the son of one of her friends. The rest is history...

Did you get a pet squid?

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Friday, October 25, 1974 1:15 PM EST.

A priest and a nun who taught there were wargamrers. They brought back this weird new game from a wargame convention. If we earned Friday Free Time in my 4th grade Catholic School class, we got to choose to join the game. My character, a Fighting Man named Random after the character in the Chronicles of Amber I was reading, lasted til the third room in the dungeon. Since then, no breaks at all, even when I had to have help eating. So from the time I was a week away from turning 9 years old until today. And until I die. Or later.

My wife has been playing since 1984 (as long as we've been together) and our sons have both played since they were eight as well. One is 18 now (He's on the boards here), the other is 14. My main campaign is still running, upgrading through various editions and changing worlds three times, but with continuous generational storylines and legacies, since 1978 or so. I meant to put it down for good this year and run Eberron, but I had some ideas...