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Post by scalydemon on Feb 27, 2017 11:13:14 GMT -6
Welcome Arzach, long may you game! And yes do try and make it to NTX rpg con. If you live right there in Dallas you have no excuse not to!
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Post by Zudrak on Feb 27, 2017 12:51:28 GMT -6
Greetings, all,
Thank you, Finarvyn, for allowing me the ability to register and join. Special thanks go to Grodog for passing on to Finarvyn my desire to join the boards here.
Sometime in autumn 1980, while in 3rd grade and 8 years old, two classmates of mine were rolling dice with one another during recess. The girl who seemed to be dictating what was happening told me that the next day I could create a character with her and play "Dungeons and Dragons" with her and the others. She would be the Dungeon Master, running the game. I did just that the next day. I regret that I cannot remember much about my first character, but I know it was a fighter named Thor. When I took Thor to my grandparents to play with relatives, I was given the surname Guth to tell him apart from other Thors (namely, to prevent me from provoking the Norse deity, my DM cousin told me). Guth was the name on a binder that my grandfather had, so my cousin appended it to my fighter.
I had long thought that the boxed set my dad bought for my brother and me (Moldvay Basic set) was the rule set used by my classmate, but later learned she was running OD&D off the top of her head, thanks to her parents owning the LBBs. We switched to AD&D after moving in 1982, as that is what the kids there were playing. AD&D was my main (& most favorite) game from 1982-1990, with non-fantasy RPGs getting attention as well (Top Secret, Star Frontiers, Twilight: 2000, and Gamma World).
A gaming hiatus lasted from autumn 1990 through summer 2000, when my brother finished his USMC service. We decided to pick up with the 3e rules since 1) our old books were in storage at our parents', 2) we figured 3e must be better than 2e (since we found 1e AD&D & Greyhawk preferable to 2e & The Forgotten Realms), 3) 3e was going to use our favorite setting (Greyhawk) as its default, and 4) our sister and my first wife, neither of whom had ever played RPGs, could learn along with us as we re-entered the hobby. After the characters began to advance in level, I began to have issues with the system but the lack of gaming for 10 years prior prevented me from being able to pinpoint my issues. I took to EN World with my issues and was pointed towards Castles & Crusades by none other than E. Gary Gygax.
Since then, I have dabbled in C&C, OSRIC, and even AD&D. I've looked at Basic Fantasy RPG, Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Swords & Wizardry, Labyrinth Lord, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, and Adventures Dark and Deep. I have come to the conclusion that I am simply trying to run D&D "my way" and let these other games inform the game I want to run. So, now I am looking at OD&D to get to the root of the hobby and see where its variants (the supplements, material in (The) Dragon magazine, and elsewhere) took things. I think slowly paring off rules has been freeing -- and educational.
Regardless of rules used, I am still a big fan of the classic setting of Greyhawk (pre-1986, with some exceptions). I like that can play in it using any classic rule set (OD&D, Holmes D&D, B/X D&D, or OAD&D).
Happy gaming, Michael
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Post by tetramorph on Feb 27, 2017 18:10:05 GMT -6
Welcome, Zudrak. You are finally home again!
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Post by foxroe on Feb 27, 2017 18:15:08 GMT -6
Welcome Zudrac!
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Post by owlorbs on Feb 28, 2017 8:21:09 GMT -6
Welcome everyone! It's always great to see new faces here.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 15:28:02 GMT -6
I've been playing RPG's since I was 16, and that's a long time ago. Lol I still do so, my current character being a vampire rogue/assassin. I don't really have a preferred class, though my best is probably cleric.
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Post by Fearghus on Feb 28, 2017 18:59:54 GMT -6
Welcome to the boards.
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Post by foxroe on Mar 1, 2017 2:00:34 GMT -6
Welcome @phoenixsong!
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Post by tkdco2 on Mar 1, 2017 3:26:15 GMT -6
Welcome to all our new members!
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Post by idrahil on Mar 1, 2017 21:05:58 GMT -6
Welcome to all the new members!
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Post by 18 Spears on Mar 1, 2017 21:53:54 GMT -6
Helo there new ones.
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Post by Sean McCoy on Mar 2, 2017 17:09:18 GMT -6
Welcome Arzach, long may you game! And yes do try and make it to NTX rpg con. If you live right there in Dallas you have no excuse not to! SOLD!
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Post by harlandski on Mar 8, 2017 23:18:28 GMT -6
Hi everyone. It's interesting to read people's intros here - I had a look at some from 2007 and the most recent ones - great that the site's been going strong for 10 years! I've been a sleeping member of the site since 2012, but I'm getting active now so thought I should introduce myself. My gaming history can be divided into six ages.
The Age of Unknowing (11-12 years old): Vague memories of occasionally jumping into Mentzer Red Box games on the school bus. There were doors, there were traps, there were goblins, and most importantly gold!
The Age of Daily Play (12-14 years old): An older boy (aged 13) pushed a copy of the AD&D 2e DMG into my hand and said "Read this - you're DM." This led to two years of playing almost every evening after school, reaching the heady heights of 9th level. At the same time I bought lots of supplements (Spelljammer and Dark Sun stand out), some of which I read and almost none of which we used in play. Looking back I think we probably didn't use that many of the rules in the PHB and DMG either!
The Age of Disputes (14-18 years old): At a new school. Found some roleplayers, but we could never agree on which system to play to have a long campaign. Short games of AD&D 2e, MERP and Paranoia stand out.
The Age of Revival (23-34 years old): Having given all my rpg books to charity shops, (Why oh why?), I wandered into a games shop in London, looked with interest and confusion at the D&D 3e Player's Handbook, and then ended up buying the shop assistant's second hand AD&D 1e books. Bought the 2e books again online, plus Dragonlance, and started a DM-swapping Dragonlance campaign which ran for many years though with ever-decreasing frequency as my friends and I spread ourselves further and further across the world, and started having children. The last game was maybe 4 years ago, with participants joining online from (West-to-East): Vancouver, London, a village in Switzerland, and myself in Almaty Kazakhstan. In this period I started to get interested in the history of D&D, starting with the differences between 1e and 2e which our campaign had brought to my attention.
The Age of d20 (32-34 years old): As my AD&D game began to go into hibernation, I sought out interested people to play with locally in Almaty. As much as I love AD&D, I felt I couldn't inflict the apparently random complexity (which die do I roll? Do I need to roll under or over?) on another group of newbies, so after looking at 3e, 4e (aaargh) and Pathfinder, I managed to get hold of a 3e Basic Game which we used for a campaign to 6th level. In essence I kept my AD&D sensibilities, but everything was "you roll a d20, you roll the number or over". But I never got into the complexities of 3e - nary an attack of opportunity in sight! (Come to think of it, maybe I inadvertedly created my own "retro clone" here, using a bare skeleton of 3e rules but my instinctive 2e play style). I ran a campaign based in Greyhawk, which I chose as I considered it to be the original D&D setting. Now I know things aren't quite as simple as that, but it was certainly part of my D&D historical education. Some people from this group also participated with me in the D&D Next playtest.
The Age of Research and Experimentation (34 years old to present): As the D&D players slowly scattered to the four winds (all but one was an expat like me), there was a brief hiatus in play, and I spent more time reading. It was probably about this time that I registered on OD&D Forums, and I read Jon Peterson's Playing at the World with great interest when it came out. I also bought the D&D 5e books, and I really like the new edition - all the optional rules remind me of 2e, though I haven't played much, mostly online. When we managed to get another local group together, we specifically set ourselves the task of trying out different games, with a tendency towards "rules light". So far we've tried Savage Worlds, Fate Accelerated Edition, Numenera and (wait for it), Holmes Basic D&D! Recently a new member has joined the group who shares my historical interests, and we have started playing Chainmail with a view to using it to play OD&D. So, here I am!
Sorry, that ended up longer than planned, but it has been good for me to reflect on how I got here!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 7:14:59 GMT -6
Welcome to all the new members and to harlandski, great to have another active member!
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Post by statemachine on Mar 21, 2017 0:10:25 GMT -6
Cheers, all! I started with the "2nd addition" of the rules - circa 1974. These were a crude, limited print-run edition, that were a revolution in gaming. My background (and foreground ) is "gaming" - ie, having fun playing games. State
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 10:52:43 GMT -6
Welcome statemachine to the forum, great to have you here and even better that you have joined the conversation.
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Post by Zudrak on Mar 23, 2017 12:10:36 GMT -6
Thanks for the greetings, all. As I don't own but want the OD&D game in print (I bought the PDFs from Drive thru RPG.com/DMsGuild), I regret not buying the reprint from Wizards of the Coast in 2013.
$200 in 2013 < $250+ in 2017.
I'll save up for it, though, so maybe by the end of the year.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 23:49:59 GMT -6
Hi everybody. I'm Olga, from Florida.
I'm 14 now, and started gaming about 5 or 6 years ago with the Mentzer Basic set. My campaign now is BECM based, but with a lot of borrowed stuff from OD&D and the OSR games, mostly the different versions of Swords & Wizardry. I'm lucky enough to have parents and friends that are old schoolers, so I haven't had to play newer editions. I read them for ideas, but don't want to play them at all. I also play an Elf Wizard in my dad's BFRPG game.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 27, 2017 2:59:33 GMT -6
To all I bid you Greetings and Felicitations!
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Post by MormonYoYoMan on Apr 27, 2017 5:09:39 GMT -6
Greedlings & Vaccinations to all the new & /or young ones. And to us ancients also. Might as well annoy everybody.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 12:13:29 GMT -6
Hi everybody. I'm Olga, from Florida. I'm 14 now, and started gaming about 5 or 6 years ago with the Mentzer Basic set. My campaign now is BECM based, but with a lot of borrowed stuff from OD&D and the OSR games, mostly the different versions of Swords & Wizardry. I'm lucky enough to have parents and friends that are old schoolers, so I haven't had to play newer editions. I read them for ideas, but don't want to play them at all. I also play an Elf Wizard in my dad's BFRPG game. Greetings Olga and welcome to the forum! Poke around through all of the forums, you never know what you might find. Everytime I read threads that I haven't read before I find a hidden gem that I can use in my campaign.
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Post by foxroe on Apr 28, 2017 22:31:31 GMT -6
Welcome @olgabelle!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 20:36:27 GMT -6
Welcome to the new members that have joined since the last greeting to new members (and to all that were not previously greeted). Recent new members following @olgabelle are: @kujoedirte borealis@equalazar blackheadedgullMichal "Bifi" S.@suedunham Seeker/Digger@taijin Gene M.@smon @laura @rohawk @frogdog bravewolf@craftdaddy @gorgon @wbeatty fatdragontom@areafiftyonegame @secretsofblackmoor Welcome to each of you! There is a lot to take in here so browse around, I am sure you will find things you are looking for and gems that you did not suspect as well.
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Post by MormonYoYoMan on May 24, 2017 21:12:28 GMT -6
Welcome, howdy, and all that to my rotation. Let's pretend!
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Post by Gene M. on May 26, 2017 7:49:05 GMT -6
Hello everyone,
I'm Gene, and I DM for a group of eight players in the Triangle region of North Carolina. I run OD&D, mostly the LBBs with bits and pieces from the supplements and some house rules stolen from various sources, including this board. Although I own Swords & Spells, for mass combat I use Chainmail.
My players are all new to D&D and tabletop roleplaying games, and I am relatively new as well. I prefer OD&D because of the simplicity of the rules—with eight people, modern rulesets get a little hard to manage.
I also just plain like it better, especially keeping hit dice & damage d6 (although I know many prefer the Greyhawk way of doing things). I like and have run Basic too, but the openness of OD&D appeals to me.
Anyway, I've long enjoyed the posts on this board and thought I should finally register. My thanks to everybody posting here as I've learned a lot.
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Post by foxroe on May 26, 2017 9:58:45 GMT -6
Welcome Gene M. ! Yep, this is a great place to hang - much less "drama" than other hangouts.
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Post by Gene M. on May 26, 2017 10:00:22 GMT -6
Welcome Gene M. ! Yep, this is a great place to hang - much less "drama" than other hangouts. Thanks! I've noticed. That's always nice.
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Post by MormonYoYoMan on May 26, 2017 13:16:05 GMT -6
Howdy again!
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