| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Zeffaniah |
Posted - 23 Oct 2009 : 09:29:12
I was sitting and writing a reply to another post while reading posts from The Sage & Rupert and was wondering, for how long people have been playing Dungeons & Dragons?
I Could not see any thread regarding this, so need to ask you lot :)
I have been playing since I was 15 (am 30 today) years. Some of my newfound friends back then introduced me to it and asked me, if I wanted to try it.
One of my friends is a REALLY good storyteller and DM, so after he'd told me a few grand stories about the realms of Faerün, I was sold and had to say yes.
I started out reading the Avatar books written by James Lowder (Richard Awlinson) and since then I have been a huge fan of Forgotten Realms and all it holds.
We have had some really great times and played from 13:00 to 09:00 in the morning - now that we've gotten older, we mostly play from 14:00 to 03:00 though lol.
There's something very special about this world that I can't describe, but it holds sooo many memories for me, both ingame and around the table.
We spent loads of money on pizzas/burgers, soda & candy when younger and today, we take shifts on cooking in the kitchen.
People have an opportunity to try personalities in the game and see how others react to it and learn from it in real life aswell, which is a great way to learn about others.
We have had evenings where we've discussed spells, feats, realmslore, painted figures and helped each other improve our characters - I do not dare to think about how many hours I have spent on The Forgotten Realms and I am certain that D&D and my D&D friends have played a huge role in my life and will hopefully do it alot more years to come, although our 3.5 books might get broken after using them for so many years (hard to find 3.5 books in Denmark where I live, since the 4.th edition have come out).
I have never tried to be Dungeon Master, until for 1 month ago, where it was my turn to rule the end of the desk as a DM (the characters are now lvl 12-15 and I have to be DM for the very first time for my life, challenging:) )
For how long have you fellow dudes and dudettes been playing D&D and how has it influenced your lives?
What is it that you cherish about D&D and that you hold so much dear, that you still play it the day today?
I hope to see some replies on this and are looking really forward to read your stories.
Please don't mind if I've jumped alot in my post, but there's just so many things that I want to write about, but will take hours to get through that, so just posted what popped up into my head :) |
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| Diffan |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 14:55:27
I started the year Baldur's Gate came out on the computer, so that was in what....'95? Anyways, got into a game or two in '98 and then again with the advent 2000. Took about 3 years off as I was in college and I couldn't find anyone to really game with. Came back on to the scene in 2005 with the revised 3E rules and still use them today in addition with d20 Modern, Pathfinder, and my current favorite: 4E.
Personally, even if the game has changed rules over the years my group and I have a great time no matter what. It's not about the rules, it's about the company you keep. |
| Seravin |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 14:12:52
1983 I think? The scandalous naked devils and demons (Erynies(sp.) and Succubus) hooked me in as a lewd child. But I stayed for the wizards. I got all my cousins hooked too, and read the Dragonlance Chronicles as soon as I found them in a B. Dalton bookstore not much later. |
| Thauranil |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 10:39:58
I started in high school 10 years back, i think its 8th grade. I saw a copy of the crystal shard at a local bookstore. It had an old fashioned renedering of Drizzt, Bruenor and Wulfgar on the cover, i thought that it seemed familar ( i had played baldurs gate but was unaware of the larger setting that it was based in). I read a few pages and have been hooked ever since. |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 04:56:31
Found online 1996, had a few years (not saying how many) before that. Indeed some can feel and know likely younger them me *S* |
| Varl |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 04:45:37
Let's see. I learned about D&D in my sophomore history classroom during lunch break where a group of players were playing something, so I asked if I could watch and listen. They said I could play if I wanted to, but I told them I'd just prefer to listen. So, for the next hour, I watched and listened to what transpired. I was hooked. I couldn't believe there was a game where the imagination was utilized so. The rest was history. That was in 1980, so I guess that makes it 32 years for me. How the time go by. |
| Markustay |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 04:25:22
It was just me an Eve back then, so I had to get Chaka the ape-boy and a very clever brontosaurus to play with us. We had to roll boulders - it was hard, but it made the criticals very realistic. |
| Apex |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 00:57:57
Since 1989. I still have my original PHB too. And we began in the Realms that very year (although I had read Darkwlaker the year before). |
| theDZA |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 00:03:18
I can't really pin down any exact dates, but I'm pretty sure I was in middle school, so I'm thinking it was in 1991ish. I was about 14. My sister got me into roleplaying and I first started gaming with her friends from college. I only got to play a couple of times but I was hooked. Unfortunately, it was years later that I began playing on any regular basis. That didn't stop me from buying as many books as I could in the meantime! Eventually I sold most of my 2nd edition boxed sets (big mistake!) and now I really regret that. |
| froglegg |
Posted - 14 Dec 2009 : 00:18:42
I played my first PC whom was a thief way back in 1979. Oh damn.......I AM OLD! 
John |
| Jakk |
Posted - 25 Nov 2009 : 19:22:35
In May of 1982, at the age of 10, I started RPing with the Tunnels and Trolls boxed set. I switched to the D&D Basic Set in 1983, mostly because I liked the cool-looking polyhedral dice. (T&T was entirely d6's, for those who have never played.) In 1984, I switched to AD&D, but kept up with the supplement boxed sets (Companion, Master, Immortals); I no longer have those boxed sets, but a few years ago I found the original Basic and Expert rulebooks (Erol Otus cover art, 3-hole drilled) in mint condition in a used bookstore for $4 Cdn each. Yes, I bought them, even though I've never gone retro and played the old game again. I've been playing and DMing in the Realms since 1987 and the OGB. I will probably be playing 3.x/Pathfinder in the pre-Spellplague Realms or Golarion until I'm too feeble to roll dice, unless a subsequent edition really grabs my attention. I have created my own worlds, but no world has kept the interest of my fellow players or myself like the 1E/2E Realms (and, to a lesser extent, the 3.x Realms)... at least, until the release of Pathfinder and Golarion. |
| Alystra Illianniis |
Posted - 24 Nov 2009 : 22:32:12
My first intro to the game lasated all of ten minutes, over lunch in high school- 1993, I think. five of that was making my PC, the other five was how long she lived.... I've been playing off and on ever since, mostly 2nd and 3.5 eds. I have my own game-world now, and I am usually the DM. I have been hooked since that first demo session! |
| Lenora Ilvastarr |
Posted - 24 Nov 2009 : 15:26:21
October of 1982. I was 11 years old. And I want to thank a lot of people in this scroll for not making me feel old.  |
| Gang Falconhand |
Posted - 11 Nov 2009 : 11:04:50
I forced my dad to buy me the old D&D red box when I was about 8 years old, and apart from a gap of a year or two when everyone went away to university, I've been playing ever since. That's 26 years. Yikes! |
| Jorkens |
Posted - 10 Nov 2009 : 09:51:17
I am not sure actually, as D&D and Ad&d 2ed. were not my first roleplaying games. I started with Drakar och Demoner (an old Swedish Basic Roleplaying variation that is still my system of choice) and GURPS and it was several years before we played TSR games. I think it might have been around 92', but again, I am not sure any more. |
| Elfinblade |
Posted - 07 Nov 2009 : 00:15:59
I was introduced to D&D in 88. Remember it as it was yesterday! On our first night i got to fight a treant. I had no clue what that was, but it was exciting as hell :)
I was 8 years old at the time and couldnt quite comprehend what all the fuzz was about. But when i started playing my Elven fighter i was hooked forever. Our gaming group consist of 4 really good childhood friends who have played together since that day. We never really reach the epic levels though. Think the highest level we reached was lvl 13 (which by the way is our ongoing campaign today! 10 years and running :) )
We play a couple of night a month. We are so lucky to have a really good DM, who never really like playing a character, only playing god :)
-Stig- |
| scererar |
Posted - 01 Nov 2009 : 16:16:42
quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone
May of 96 while stationed in Korea. I was 24. Fun times in the Realms.
Brimstone - some of my favorite games occured while stationed on the ROK. In the winter inbetween field excercises, there is not much to do
Where were you stationed. I was at LaGuardia, near CRC. |
| BlackAce |
Posted - 01 Nov 2009 : 16:07:42
I don't really remember when I started I played on and off with friends in the mid-late 80s but I was army and football crazy and so it didn't particularly stick.
I think the first time I seriously sat down and played was in school, late '90-ish, no gameboys and what have you back then, though there where a few really basic LCD things, so whenever the school had crappy weather and we were kept indoors, out came the boardgames.
During one particularly bad week, we weren't alowed out at all. Then somebody on the Wednesday brought his D&D books to school and DM'ed a game. It was a Greyhawk module but I forget which, something with Greyhawk in the title.... Anyway, we really enjoyed ourselves and were hooked and we decided to finish the campaign off by heading to the library after lunch and playing.
We went back to playing football afterwards though, so again it didn't stick long term, but I remembered it a few years later ('94 ish) when I spotted a couple of Dungeons and Dragons paperbacks in WHSmiths. One was a certain novel called Elfshadow by someone named Elaine Cunningham....
The rest, as they say, is history. |
| scererar |
Posted - 01 Nov 2009 : 15:55:09
started in 1987 age 14 with the D&D red box |
| Roland55 |
Posted - 01 Nov 2009 : 00:52:47
quote:
Originally posted by Mournblade
quote:
Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
Mmmm... memories.
I first saw D&D at my (then) best friend's 9th birthday party. I started picking up the game and modules soon after. That was over 27 years ago.
YES! HAH HAH!!!!
Ashe has been playing D&D LONGER THAN ME!!!
WOO HOO!
I am NOT the oldest!
I started at 10 in 1982 with D&D basic set!
My friend and I used to love to ogle over the boobs in the Monster Manual I in Ms. Berger's 4th grade class
Fear not. You're still just a youth.
1975 in a grad school on the West Coast. I was skulling my way through relativistic electrodynamics and sweating blood in Goldstein's dynamics class. Walking into the library, my best friend showed up with a set of wrinkled sheets covered in smeared purple text (the "dirty purples" of old) -- an interesting wargame variant. This was both good and bad.
Good = relief of stress and tension. Bad = too much of a good thing. I did survive grad school and now it's 34 years later. I've travelled a long way down a shadowy road ... physics and D&D, together. |
| Doc Filth |
Posted - 30 Oct 2009 : 11:07:29
D&D for the best part of 20 years, Forgotten Realms for 15. I bought the 2E campaign box during my first term at 6th-form college, and whenever I've run games since (usually, for a year or so every 2 or 3 years) it's been FR.
3rd Edition won me over pretty quickly, but I have to say what I've seen of 4th (and specifically the changes to the Realms) leaves me utterly cold. |
| Hordak |
Posted - 28 Oct 2009 : 13:27:34
Damn I'm old.... 19 years and counting. |
| Sandro |
Posted - 28 Oct 2009 : 07:14:48
I've played for an impressive two and a half years -- mind you, I was twelve when I started. My first exposure to the Realms, though, came around eight years ago, playing Baldur's Gate with a friend. I always gobbled up what my dad told me about the game he was currently playing (DM'd by said friend's Dad).
Finally, many years and many experiences (moving from Canada to England) later, I finally started playing with my dad, and that same friend -- DM'd by his dad (again) -- by Skype (we were in England, they were in Canada). Despite the obvious difficulties of running a game that way, it's worked out amazingly well -- this summer, while we were in Canada (in transit from England to New Zealand), we even managed to get together for a face-to-face game -- one of the highlights of my summer.
Now I just need to find some people down here willing to play... |
| wintermute27 |
Posted - 28 Oct 2009 : 00:18:44
The first time I played Dungeons and Dragons was when I was about 10 or 11 years old (I'm 28 now). I tagged along with a friend to a few game sessions one summer. We were using the rules from the Rules Cyclopedia hardcover reprint of the basic boxed sets. One day we showed up for a game and the DM told us that he had sold all his game stuff. I think his mother got a hold of the dreaded Dark Dungeons pamphlet and threw his books away. Unfortunately at this point I was unable to find anyone to run a game no matter how hard I looked and that lasted until I found a group in high school at which point the 2ed rules were out.
It was in college that my true love for the Realms began. Among the few friends I had who were willing to play DnD, none of them would DM for us, so out of frustration I decided to step up to the plate. I wanted to start the game sooner rather than later so I thought I'd skip the time consuming home-brew world building and went shopping for a setting to use. I'd read some Forgotten Realms books in the past so I decided to pick up the Campaign Setting and I've been hooked ever since.
The only thing that makes me sad is that I have yet to meet someone who is willing to run a FR campaign. So I continue to set my games in Faerun, and dream of the day when I will finally get to run a PC in the Forgotten Realms. |
| Darkmeer |
Posted - 27 Oct 2009 : 05:44:49
Wow. I have said I started in 1992, when I was a wee lad of 11 years old. That being said, I guess that makes 17 years of gaming.
First D&D game was TSR 1106, "The Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game." (Yes, this box is still on my gaming shelf today). I played Pike the fighter, my little brother played the rogue, and my father was the DM. How's that for a family game night?
Since then, I've played one Dragonlance/Ravenloft campaign, multiple other systems, and settled into the Realms (as a serious DM/Player) around the end of 2e, beginning of 3.0 (starting around 98 or so).
Given the ridiculous number of settings and system's I've played, I think I've never made it to 20th level from 1st. Not once in 17 years. I stop around level 14-17, and my characters tend to retire, although a number of them are quite dead as well  .
Of all the things I love most about gaming, it's the people. I've more friends from gaming than any other source. It's its own community, so to speak. We all speak geek, talk about fun ideas, mechanics, or the odd spell here or there. Even what campaigns we've had the most fun in (mine is the Mistledale campaign held here in the 'Keep's libraries). When my son was diagnosed with Leukemia, it was the gamers who came and supported me and my family with words, pizzas (yay!), and in some cases a night dragged away from the hospital to relax and play a game and forget about the problems and fears that came with that.
So, in short, I cherish the true friends I've found through gaming.
/d |
| Icelander |
Posted - 26 Oct 2009 : 19:29:28
I reckon I've been playing for eighteen years or so. Started on old copies of D&D Basic someone gave to us young'uns and worked my way through the editions.
Didn't actually play much 1e, though, since 2e was already out by then. |
| Kno |
Posted - 26 Oct 2009 : 15:34:28
For over five years, still playing the 2nd edition. |
| Amraz one arm |
Posted - 26 Oct 2009 : 13:00:04
Well, I guess I started RPG when I was about 7 or 8. My brother recieved the DARK EYE from a local fairy-touched goodguy bringing childeren gifts. I was allowed to play with him and his friends. It wasn't untill I reached the age of 12 I got my own friends who where into role-playing. After running thru my brothers limited book supply, we desperatly needed something else, new and without a limited supply. Enter D&D. We played first edition on Mystara. I remember playing a Elf mage, to extremly high level. Going into the underdark to snatch the sercet of dark-elves mages ( becuase the could become level 18 mage, while normal elves could only reach level12). Than we got the second edition, and I went into my darker metal periode.
So I started a Ravenloft session running for a few years. I had two other friends in school, who run their own campaigns with friends. But we as DM's tended to flock together on the school-yard. So I got introduced with the forgotten realms campaign. The person who was gaming in Forgotten Realms, gave me his collection when we all went to college. So I had collections of Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft 2nd edition. College, well is college, paid more attention to the opposite seks and started drinking like a dwarf. Somewhere in these times my appartement got burgled, burgled good. The thieves took everything expect my bed and clothes.
This also ended my budding magic the gathering hobby. So I was forced again to seek something for my fantasy craving. Enter D&D3rd, I took some friends from college and introduced them to it. The love of the game caught me again. And when I returned to my old home-town we we're already on the 3,5 time-scale. And my old-friends had continued with D&D'en so it was an easy table to join. A friend had become a damn good DM in the mean-time. And so we started with 2 campaigns. I eventually withdrew myself from my friends campaign to focus more on writing my own. We still play 1 or 2 times a month, and I drop in reguraly as a guest-NPC in my friends campaign. So counting backwards I'd say 21 years now....
AND A GOOD 21 YEARS IT HAVE BEEN, LONG-LIVE DUNGEONS and DRAGONS!!!!
at least untill I die, then it wouldn't bother me that much.
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| Nightseer |
Posted - 26 Oct 2009 : 05:09:39
1998 for me. |
| Dalmar Amad |
Posted - 25 Oct 2009 : 22:56:51
I got hooked on fantasy games about 18 or 19 years ago when a school mate invented his own game system. It got so far that we even played between school classes.
At about the same time i got introduced to the Dragonlance chronicles and shortly after that i found a copy of Crystal Shard in a small library in my hometown. Also at about that time i got to know and love SSI's computer games of the DL and FR worlds.
Shortly after that i bought the AD&D PLayers' and Dungeoun Master's Guide and started playing with my mates. I tried to create my own world but learned very soon that the Forgotten Realms was the place i really started to love. Been playing a modified 2E ever since although i don't have as much time now as i would like to.
I'm the DM in our group most of the times but sometimes i get to play as well. Also tried Dark Eye and Rolemaster but the Forgotten Realms is my one true love.
Cheers,
Dalmar |
| Delzounblood |
Posted - 25 Oct 2009 : 22:47:40
24 years and still rolling |
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