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Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 5590994" data-attributes="member: 9734">I've got 2 distinct phases of gaming.  The first is from the fall of 1981 to the winter of 1986/87.1) Started in the fall of '81.2) Primary System: Moldvay/AD&D mashup.  Some of us had Moldvay Basic books, some had AD&D books.  We used AD&D HD, alignment, and weapon selection, but used the simpler combat system of Moldvay.  By 1983, this had moved to full-on AD&D.Secondary System: Gamma World 1e.Other systems: Played GURPS once, rolled up a Traveller character, but never played.There was one consistent group I was in, and it was D&D, all the time.  There were a few different long-term campaigns.  I also played in a few other campaigns around town/school from time to time, with the same characters.Once in a while, for a change of pace, I'd run GW, all one-shots.3) We didn't ever really change systems, just dabbled in the others from time to time.The second phase is from 1999 to the present.1) Got back into gaming in a former co-worker's 1e AD&D game.  Played in it for nearly 7 years, every other saturday.2) I started a 3e campaign in January 2001.  Ran until Dec 2004.Along side it, I was running a different group using Moldvay/Cook B/X.  This also ended in Dec 2004.  I welded the two groups together into a 1e AD&D Greyhawk game, which ended with a TPK in 2007, and restarted imemediatley.  In 2009, one of the players took over as DM, and I'm still in as a player.Somewhere along the way, I joined a 3.5 game, I think this was in 2005.  That game ran until 2010.I've run a few one-shots of GW 1e in the last decade, but have not strayed outside of D&D beyond that as a DM/GM.  I have played all sorts of games at conventions since I started going to cons in 2003.  These games include RuneQuest, Traveller, Shadowrun, and others I am certainly forgetting.  3) As I said, we've largely been happy with 1e AD&D for my games, and 3.5 for others, and I really haven't strayed.  I do want to either run or play RuneQuest 2 (the old one, not the mongoose version) or Classic Traveller.</blockquote>

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