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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 22:22:12 GMT -6
That is a lot of responses to the poll. There are 89 votes, well 90 really if you count @gronanofsimmerya who started in 1972 and 91 if gsvenson voted and didn't he start playing in 1971?
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Post by Falconer on Oct 27, 2016 22:58:44 GMT -6
All this time I thought you were an old timer and here it turns out you are wet behind the ears. Go figure! I’m just old enough that I was able to be old school* before it was cool, and just young enough to be certain that it’s not based on nostalgia! * - or, as Gene Weigel once said, “good school.”
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 5:38:19 GMT -6
Seeing that so many of you started around '80-'82, did you start 1e, and then go back to Brown, or did you start with Mentzer/Moldvay/Holmes, and then go back? - Like, Mentzer almost never gets mentioned around here, not even as a derivative. (Engrish?)
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Post by simrion on Oct 28, 2016 9:23:28 GMT -6
Seeing that so many of you started around '80-'82, did you start 1e, and then go back to Brown, or did you start with Mentzer/Moldvay/Holmes, and then go back? - Like, Mentzer almost never gets mentioned around here, not even as a derivative. (Engrish?) I went from Moldvay B/X to AD&D 1E - played both for a while at the same time (not mixed together, rather different campaigns.)
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Post by gsvenson on Oct 28, 2016 18:29:00 GMT -6
That is a lot of responses to the poll. There are 89 votes, well 90 really if you count @gronanofsimmerya who started in 1972 and 91 if gsvenson voted and didn't he start playing in 1971? Yes, we were playing what became D&D in 1971. We called it Blackmoor, but it was essentially the same game.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 22:13:51 GMT -6
Hi Greg! You wanna tell these d**n kids to get off the lawn or should I?
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Post by GRWelsh on Oct 29, 2016 9:29:37 GMT -6
I first played D&D in Spring 1981. I first heard about it and saw it in Fall 1980, when a friend of mine tried to describe it to me... He had the Holmes basic set. I had a hard time wrapping my head around the concept. The first TSR game I played was the DUNGEON! boardgame in 1979, and I thought D&D was something similar to that.
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Post by gsvenson on Oct 29, 2016 9:47:44 GMT -6
I still have my original copy of Dungeon. Some of my kids have enjoyed playing it.
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Post by rex on Oct 29, 2016 10:04:25 GMT -6
I received the Moldvay Basic Set Christmas morning, 1981, as a robust 15 year old. I DM'd the Haunted Keep in the back of the rulebook for my brothers...oh, was it before the New Year or slightly after, while out on holiday break from school? Either extremely late '81 or early '82. I'm going with '81 as the first year I played the game.
I'd play several other RPGs after that, and only come back to D&D with 3.5. For nostalgia's sake, I picked up AD&D 1st edition a few years ago, and have DM'd one campaign with it. Fun times, and more fun days ahead.
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Post by Maximus on Oct 29, 2016 12:39:23 GMT -6
Freshman year of high school, which would have been the Fall of '80. Started with Mentzer boxed set and moved to AD&D a short time after. Still have all my original books and the boxed set. My Basic player's book disappeared at some point. The moral of the story is: never have friends. That was Gods, Demigods, and Heroes for me... I think I know where it went, but at this point it doesn't matter. Bought another one on Ebay, so alls good.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Oct 29, 2016 21:52:39 GMT -6
Some surprising results (to me at least): the 1991+ crowd has pulled ahead in the race. Good to see fresh blood having entered the hobby.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2016 1:32:50 GMT -6
Some surprising results (to me at least): the 1991+ crowd has pulled ahead in the race. Good to see fresh blood having entered the hobby. This is why I asked: More than 50% of the current voters came in way too late for the LBBs, and around 40% of those 50% came in so late that their connection to the LBBs is not conventional; it's those stories that really interest me, personally. For example, looking from the outside, I'd suspect most of the users here to be more closely linked to one of the several simulacra and clones games, from AS&S to S&W; like, another interesting poll that I would perhaps like to put up after some afterthought would be - how many here actually own a set of the LBB, and how many actually are playing WB D&D on a regular base. Like, I, as one of the post-1991 crowd, had my last LBB game two years ago, and before that, another one, in 2011. But besides that, nothing, really, if only for the reason that I don't want to play 500 $ for a collector's item, and then pour diet coke and chips sauce all over it. The one thing that always makes to my gaming table these days are the character class collections from Bard Games, though, FWIW.
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Post by capvideo on Oct 30, 2016 13:16:24 GMT -6
Seeing that so many of you started around '80-'82, did you start 1e, and then go back to Brown, or did you start with Mentzer/Moldvay/Holmes, and then go back? - Like, Mentzer almost never gets mentioned around here, not even as a derivative. (Engrish?) We started with Holmes, but by the second game were using the PHB—while the DM continued using Holmes. We started on Halloween 1981; Christmas, I got Moldvay Basic (and perhaps Expert, although that might have come several months later on my birthday). In the fall of 1982, when I went off to college, I switched exclusively to AD&D; when returning home, my hometown group also used AD&D exclusively, except, of course, that we used modules interchangeably. It's probably just first-preference for me, as Moldvay Basic was the first D&D I read all the way through, but reading Mentzer many years later was much less magical. The text even seemed denser to me. Looking at them side-by-side now, I'm not sure that's the case, but the text is definitely thinner in Mentzer, and condensed into three columns instead of two.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Oct 30, 2016 13:43:09 GMT -6
Some surprising results (to me at least): the 1991+ crowd has pulled ahead in the race. Good to see fresh blood having entered the hobby. This is why I asked: More than 50% of the current voters came in way too late for the LBBs, and around 40% of those 50% came in so late that their connection to the LBBs is not conventional; it's those stories that really interest me, personally. For example, looking from the outside, I'd suspect most of the users here to be more closely linked to one of the several simulacra and clones games, from AS&S to S&W; like, another interesting poll that I would perhaps like to put up after some afterthought would be - how many here actually own a set of the LBB, and how many actually are playing WB D&D on a regular base. Like, I, as one of the post-1991 crowd, had my last LBB game two years ago, and before that, another one, in 2011. But besides that, nothing, really, if only for the reason that I don't want to play 500 $ for a collector's item, and then pour diet coke and chips sauce all over it. The one thing that always makes to my gaming table these days are the character class collections from Bard Games, though, FWIW. Interesting. I never suspected that the existence of clones/OSR simulacra would lure new people back to OD&D's LBBs. I personally don't own actual copies of the LBBs (too blasted expensive, obviously). I found rather poor scans online over a decade ago and printed them up, placing them in three-ring binders, which isn't a bad kind of presentation (the low resolution notwithstanding). I got into D&D with Moldvay Basic, and not long thereafter a friend let me look through his copies of the AD&D hardbacks and some of the modules, but a vehement parental ban on any such materials kept me from acquiring anything at all. I didn't start collecting officially until 2001. I didn't even know of the existence of OD&D until around 2001 or 2002!
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Post by talysman on Oct 30, 2016 18:00:29 GMT -6
Like, I, as one of the post-1991 crowd, had my last LBB game two years ago, and before that, another one, in 2011. But besides that, nothing, really, if only for the reason that I don't want to play 500 $ for a collector's item, and then pour diet coke and chips sauce all over it. The one thing that always makes to my gaming table these days are the character class collections from Bard Games, though, FWIW. Or, instead of pouring coke and chips sauce on it, you can lay Men & Magic open to page for reference while writing a forum post, and then some cat slightly damp from the rain comes over and lies down on it because it's the perfect spot. I'm just saying. Fortunately, it wasn't collector's quality, since it's seen a lot of actual use since 1978, but still, those marks are a little annoying. Also, I have always regretted not getting those Bard Games books when I saw them in the mall.
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Post by dizzysaxophone on Nov 6, 2016 21:39:28 GMT -6
2007. It Friday and we had just started spring break my senior year of high school. My friend wanted to buy axis & allies at a local game store, so we went and he was too cheap to buy it. I saw the basic box for D&D 3.5 and picked it up. Read it over night, and we played the next day. Immediately went back and bought up all the D&D 3.5 stuff I could and ran the game for that group every day over spring break and every week for the rest of the school year. In college I continued to run 3.5 until the gamestore near my university had the AD&D 1e books (in really rough shape) for sale. I picked them up, happened to find the RFI podcast soon afterwards, changed my group to 1e, and have been playing TSR era D&D since.
Been a DM since the beginning. First experience as a player was a chat only pathfinder game in like 2009 or 2010. Finally played 1e online around the same time I started running it in 2010 I think.
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Post by hagbard on Nov 8, 2016 22:42:24 GMT -6
83 or 84. I can't remember but was during that school year. Weirdly, I got into D&D after Boot Hill, so that was my introduction to RPGs
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Post by scalydemon on Nov 9, 2016 13:14:12 GMT -6
83 or 84. I can't remember but was during that school year. Weirdly, I got into D&D after Boot Hill, so that was my introduction to RPGs Wow, now that is odd. Boot Hill - the gateway game
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Post by hagbard on Nov 9, 2016 13:41:58 GMT -6
83 or 84. I can't remember but was during that school year. Weirdly, I got into D&D after Boot Hill, so that was my introduction to RPGs Wow, now that is odd. Boot Hill - the gateway game I remember the first time I played it, and I had heard of D&D before, but never thought there was a connection between the two until someone asked me to join their b/x game a little while after the fact. The GM who introduced me to Boot Hill was fantastic at running the game, so yeah, weird!
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Nov 9, 2016 15:45:10 GMT -6
Well I think I was very blessed, it is hard to pin down exactly. I would have been around eleven I believe when I first played D&D in the summer of 1975. I got to sit in a game with some older high school kids, I had a blast! I appreciate now that they put up with such a young kid in their group.
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