Your First Gaming Book?
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arwink
Clockwork Golem
Dragon Warriors - Book one, two and three.
I picked it up at the age of eight or nine, after three or so years playing occasional DnD games with the children of my parents friends. I was living in the middle of no-where at the time, so I figured this was as close as I could get to DnD anytime in the near future. I started running sessions within a few days of buying them, although finding players remained a problem until I moved a few years later.
I picked it up at the age of eight or nine, after three or so years playing occasional DnD games with the children of my parents friends. I was living in the middle of no-where at the time, so I figured this was as close as I could get to DnD anytime in the near future. I started running sessions within a few days of buying them, although finding players remained a problem until I moved a few years later.
RogueRonin
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Heroes Unlimited. I was 11, which would make the year 1995. It was my brother's book, but I snuck into his room and read it alot when he wasn't home.
Galethorn
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I was 13, and the year was 2000. My first gaming book was the 3e PHB. I had played through a couple of fast-play thingamajabs with my mom and a friend before that, but those were by no means books.
Nope, it was the 3e PHB that really started things off for me. It took until 2002 to get a regular group together (partly because it took me that long to realize that I didn't know anybody who was willing to DM [and yet had several friends who wanted to play] then read through the DMG enough times to think I knew what I was doing), and until a little after this time last year to get a good game going, albeit with a different system (CODA LOTR, if you wanted to know).
Since then, I've started a D&D campaign in my homebrew setting (which I've been working full time on since I first read the World Building section in the DMG, back in 2000, which was about a year after I first started thinking up ideas for smaller-scale fantasy setting stuff).
Boy, a lot happens in four years. To put it succintly, my little mountain village of Elondale has grown into a sovereign kingdom as the world around it went from unmapped, trackless wilderness to vast tracts of unpopulated land to fully populated nations full of people with unique culture!
Yep, a lot happened in those four years; I got almost half a foot taller, gained almost a hundred pounds (which came mostly in the form of muscles, rather than pant-size, much to my relief), and went from a fairly tall, smooth-chinned boy to a very tall, broad-shouldered, 'Vikingeque' young man (with a funny beard that's nice and thick, but refuses to migrate north of the chin at an acceptable rate). Oh, and I became a much better DM than any of my friends. That's important too.
But, back to the point...
Yeah...3e PHB in 2000, when I was 13. I think I went a bit over my time limit...Did I mention I ramble?
Nope, it was the 3e PHB that really started things off for me. It took until 2002 to get a regular group together (partly because it took me that long to realize that I didn't know anybody who was willing to DM [and yet had several friends who wanted to play] then read through the DMG enough times to think I knew what I was doing), and until a little after this time last year to get a good game going, albeit with a different system (CODA LOTR, if you wanted to know).
Since then, I've started a D&D campaign in my homebrew setting (which I've been working full time on since I first read the World Building section in the DMG, back in 2000, which was about a year after I first started thinking up ideas for smaller-scale fantasy setting stuff).
Boy, a lot happens in four years. To put it succintly, my little mountain village of Elondale has grown into a sovereign kingdom as the world around it went from unmapped, trackless wilderness to vast tracts of unpopulated land to fully populated nations full of people with unique culture!
Yep, a lot happened in those four years; I got almost half a foot taller, gained almost a hundred pounds (which came mostly in the form of muscles, rather than pant-size, much to my relief), and went from a fairly tall, smooth-chinned boy to a very tall, broad-shouldered, 'Vikingeque' young man (with a funny beard that's nice and thick, but refuses to migrate north of the chin at an acceptable rate). Oh, and I became a much better DM than any of my friends. That's important too.
But, back to the point...
Yeah...3e PHB in 2000, when I was 13. I think I went a bit over my time limit...Did I mention I ramble?
James Heard
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I got the old Basic set when I was in 3rd grade, which would make me around 8 I guess and the year 1980? Something like that. I certainly understood D&D better than I understood the wargames I was playing with my dad at the same time.
bleedingedge
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Pramas said:
Hi Chris,
I thought Jason was the one that bought that box, he always took credit.
I started with the basic D&D blue box in October 1979, I was 13. Got it at the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, MA.
I did get one of Grenadier's Golden Wizards in the summer of 1981 (I think, may have been 1980) with a purchase at that Eric Fuch's. (for those that don't know, Grenadier had the D&D mini license in the late 70's and early 80's, they had a contest where random mini boxes had a gold plated wizard and a prize packed in them, I picked up a box of minis with the wizard and a $25 gift certificate) I still have both the wizard and the gift certificate, never used it.
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