Your D&D Pedigree

[RFisher]

No doubt I've forgotten something or gotten something out of order. Not counting one-offs.

• Moldvay Basic/Cook-Marsh Expert D&D
• (Traveller)
• AD&D 1e
• (freeform homebrew)
• (Warhammer FRP)
• AD&D 2e
• (Gurps)
• (Rolemaster)
• (Fantasy Hero)
• (Hârnmaster)
• AD&D 2e
• (hiatus)
• AD&D 2e
• D&D 3.0e
• (Star Wars d20)
• (Marvel Superheroes)
• (Lord of the Rings (Decipher/Coda))
• D&D 3.5e
• (Horror homebrew)
• (Classic Traveller)
• (Toon)
• Moldvay Basic/Cook-Marsh Expert D&D

During those years of other games between 2e was when I experienced most of the AD&D modules that I've played. (Converted on the fly to whatever system we were using.)

 

[Wombat]

1973: Chainmail (yellow cover with the fantasy rules supplement in the back).

1975: D&D. Not "Basic Edition", not "AD&D", not "1st ed" -- the real beginning point.

Then, around 1977, 1978, I dropped D&D until 3e came out.

In between I played a lot of other systems: Traveller, Call of Cthuhlu, Pendragon, Paranoia, TORG, Golden Heroes, GURPS, Ars Magica, Cyberpunk, etc.

Never made the switch to 3.5, but have played several D20/OGL games (Skull & Bones, AU/AE, True20).

And now have drifted away again, probably to return somewhere around 7th ed...

 

[thedungeondelver]

The first D&D "ruleset" I owned was B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS (honest - about 50% of the rules can be extrapolated from the module!), so I guess you might then say BASIC D&D.

Shortly thereafter I picked up a MONSTER MANUAL, then a DUNGEON MASTER'S GUIDE for AD&D and it's been AD&D ever since.

 

[EricNoah]

Blue box Basic D&D
AD&D
Red Box Basic D&D
AD&D
2nd Ed AD&D
3rd Ed D&D
Arcana Unearthed
3.5 Ed D&D

 

[sniffles]

I didn't start roleplaying until 1995, and didn't begin my introduction with D&D. We started playing AD&D in about 1998. When 3E was released we started using that right away for new campaigns, although we didn't convert our AD&D campaign to 3E until 3.5 had been out for a while.

 

[BlackMoria]

All editions since Chainmail and the first D&D small brown covered booklets in '74 - '75

 

[Blind Azathoth]

If we're just talking about D&D:

2003-present: D&D 3.5e

But if we're including systems other than D&D, as well...

2003-present: D&D 3.5e
2004-present: Call of Cthulhu 5th edition

What can I say? I started old, and my interests are very narrow.

The closest I came to playing an RPG before 3rd edition was when, in 1999, a friend of mine showed me the AD&D 2e rules. I read through them, decided there were too many things I didn't like about it, and declined playing. A few years later, I found out they'd revised the game and addressed a number of the problems I had initially had with it, so I decided to try it out. It was one of the best times I've ever had with my friends, and thus were the seeds of my current addiction planted.

 

[Gwaihir]

1980: Red Box Basic
1980-1986, Hiatus,1994 - AD&D
1995-2001 2E
2001-2004 3E
2004- Current 3.5E


I gotta be the only person on the planet who roleplayed before AND after college, but not during.

 

[Henry]

1981: Moldvay Basic D&D & (Zeb Cook?) Expert D&D
1984 or thereabouts: 1st Edition AD&D
1989: 2nd edition AD&D, with lots of 1E thrown in
1998: Player's Option (Combat & Tactics, Skills & Powers, Tome of Magic)
2000: 3E
2004: 3.5e

That's my "D&D pedigree" anyway; there's lots of other games interspersed in there.

 

[Ulric]

1982: AD&D 1982-1989

BIG BREAK DURING THE 90s for school and world travel. During this time I played very little, but read various D&D books for the sake of my imagination.

2000: D&D 3E 2000-3
2003: D&D 3.5E 2003-present