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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5263544" data-attributes="member: 1225">Let's see, I think I was 8 or so the first time I played D&D -- I have no idea what edition it was, actually, since it was maybe an hour or two. My poor low hp (3? 4?) fighter got his arm broke by a mean guard trying to cross a bridge to get to the City-State of the Invincible Overlord. After that, I badgered my mom into getting me the AD&D books (in some weird order), then the D&D Basic set. Then I played with neighbors & cousins for several years. We branched off into our own games -- a "LARP" (aka kids with whiffle bats engaging in fake sword fights, complete with rock-paper-scissor conflict resolutions for things where the bat-duels wouldn't work, or when the Responsible Adults had determined the horseplay was out of hand); a game a neighbor made that was basically "roll a d6; 4-6 you did it"; and a game where we rolled percentile dice and whoever was GM determined whether you rolled low enough. At the same time, we still played D&D. Then we found a game club at the local library, and joined it. There, it was AD&D, plus Traveller, Gamma World, Champions, a little Gangbusters, some Star Frontiers, Marvel Super-Heroes, Villains & Vigilantes, and other games (some of those at the library, some at home). I got convinced to run Dragonlance (outside of the library), which we got through the first adventure before dropping it (the pregens include non-multiclassed elves, dwarves, and <s>halflings</s> kender, and none of 'em using weapon specialization -- WTH?). Sometime after that, I started a Champions game for my buddies.By '87 or so, I was done with (A)D&D. We played BattleTech, some Mechwarrior, Twilight: 2000, Stormbringer, lots of Champions, Shadowrun 1e, and other games. Sometime in '89 or '90, a couple-few players left for college, my cousin essentially dropped out of gaming, and there were just me and my buddy. We found out about a local mini-con put on by a game shop in Carmel, went there, and met some new-to-us gamers. We teamed up with them, and played Champions, a home-brew (based loosely on CoC/BRP/RuneQuest), T2K, Vampire, Werewolf, and eventually discovered GURPS when I went looking for a grittier system to try to run an Elementals-flavored supers game. GURPS 3e + Supers 1e; and then I saw Special Ops, then Cyberpunk came out, and then it was mostly GURPS for the rest of the '90s (with occasional trips to the World of Darkness and SR). I signed up with SJGames' BBS in the mid-'90s just to get involved with GURPS playtesting.Eventually, I was buying AD&D setting stuff to use for GURPS, and I heard about D&D 3e's announcement. I started buying Dragon to see the previews, found this Eric Noah guy's website, and drug the group into 3e (those $20 core books were awesome). Since then, we've played GURPS, D&D 3e, M&M, a little Savage Worlds, more Shadowrun, Exalted, a tiny bit of HERO/Champions, and a bunch of other games, besides.And now I have to move all those damned books to a new house. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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