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Me 36 - gaming since 1981, Red Box, 1E AD&D, 2E AD&D, MERP, GURPS, Rolemaster, Robotech, Maelstrom, Shadowrun, Starwars, Rifts, WFRP, WOD,and D20.

I know there are people out there that are older then me and have played more games.

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Old as in age? Old as in time gaming? Or both?

I've ony been gaming since the late 80s or so, but I'm 38 years old.


43 years old this year... gaming 27 years... started 1983... Red Box, Blue Box, then 1E AD&D, 2E AD&D, Palladium RPG, 3,5 and Pathfinder.


35 years old; been gaming since the late 80's (AD&D 1E originally). I think that makes me more a Lamech or a Noah, instead of a Methuselah.


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Was 50 in March. Started in 1976.

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scranford wrote:
Was 50 in March. Started in 1976.

Dude, I actually think you might be the oldest guy around. Except for Cosmo, whom we're pretty sure is just a flesh mask for an evil which is older than the universe.


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Man. What a bunch of fogies!!! :-D

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scranford wrote:
Was 50 in March. Started in 1976.

You got me beat.

Currently 46, but didn't start gaming until 1982.


I'm turning 35 on Saturday, started gaming in 1986 with the Red Box. My best friend adds 1 year of age and 2 years of gaming to that.


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I'm 42 and started around 1980 or so. AD&D 1st Edition with Efreet on the cover of the DMG. Good times...


39. Started gaming in '83...ish.

Older than most of you, but not all.

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Scranford, you beat me by two years in both categories.

What books were you using? (Do you remember Arduin?)

I started D&D in St. Louis just a few months before moving to Iowa for college. Where were you when you picked up your first books?

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I'm 34, so a bit younger than some of the posters, but an old fogey compared to others.

My gaming history is a little fuzzy. I bought the Red Box when I was 12 which would have been... 1988. I think playing Pool of Radiance on the Apple IIe inspired me to do it. I put myself through some solo adventures, but couldn't find anyone to play with, and the only people I knew who played D&D stared at me like I was the stinky cooties-bearing girl I was when I asked if I could play with them. :)

I think (after buying and goofing around on my own with AD&D 2nd Ed) the first game I played was when I was 17. I played a human bard. But then the campaign was cancelled after 1 session because the GM's mom told him he couldn't play any more because the game was Satanic.

So while I was really familiar with D&D and did world building and stuff on my own for many years, I really didn't get to play until I was 18, in college. The first full campaign I played in was a Wraith: the Oblivion game--a far cry from the D&D Red Box, but a great game in its own right, for certain. I did actually eventually get to play some D&D in the late 90s and haven't stopped since, playing through mishmashes of 1st and 2nd ed up through 3rd edition and straight to Pathfinder, with tons of other systems in there along the way. So it took 6 years to get going... my persistence in being an outcast gamer nerd paid off in the end. :)


Any kids Scranford?....

I just had the thought of Scranford & sons.

I am 37 till august an thought I was the methuselah.

Course if you go the opposite way and check out Yucales thread I think yucale has stated being 13 or so.

If we are antideluvians what are they?

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I'm not the oldest, but I'll be 37 in a couple months.

I started gaming with the Red Box in 1985.

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turned 30 today and you guys are making me feel better about that. I started in 88 2nd edition.

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Score!

I'll be 54 in September. I started playing D&D in the early 80's.

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35. I started with the Red box basic set in '82 when I was 7. I played long term campaigns in ROlemaster, Call of Cthulhu, D&D (all incarnations), Palladium RPG, Rifts, TMNT, Beyond the Supernatural, Marvel Superheros, LUG Star Trek, WOD 1st edition, and of course PFRPG.

I tend to aggregate books from a lot more systems than that, as I have inherited many people's collections over the years.


As for playing I am still wet behind the ears, but as far as age I turn 62 in August.


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normanak wrote:
Score!

I think you are the front runner for the Methuselah Award right now :)

Edit: Ah crap. I missed Silverhair2008's post. I guess Normanak is a whipper-snapper after all.


Heh..still the youngest!!!


scranford wrote:
Was 50 in March. Started in 1976.

Ha beat you on both counts..Was 50 in January and started in late 1974 with the brown box(one of the first 1000 sets)

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silverhair2008 wrote:
As for playing I am still wet behind the ears, but as far as age I turn 62 in August.

So, you were probably around to see Cosmo prior to his current human form.

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So, is this like Logan's Run, and once we find the oldest gamer, we have to hunt him (or her) down and kill him (or her)?

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Aberzombie wrote:
silverhair2008 wrote:
As for playing I am still wet behind the ears, but as far as age I turn 62 in August.
So, you were probably around to see Cosmo prior to his current human form.

An ambulatory moustache?


Sebastian wrote:
So, is this like Logan's Run, and once we find the oldest gamer, we have to hunt him (or her) down and kill him (or her)?

Consume their brain so that their knowledge will be part of the collective.

I turn 31 in August and have been playing for 21 years.


I turned 47 in june. I started D&D in 77 or 78 over the summer. (It was the year the first hardcover came out.) I've plaved D&D, Gurps (several versions), Rifts, Champions (several versions), WOD (several versions), Call of Cthulu (several versions), V&V, M&M (both editions), Rolemaster (or chartmaster if you prefer), Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Shadowrun (several versions), Cyberpunk, D20 Modern, Ars Magica (several versions), and some others I can't think of now.
If you count games I've built characters for but never played, the list probably triples.
I had (and still have) Arduin, but never convinced anyone to use it. Same with Synnabar.


Slight detour of content- Does anyone else always think of the small box with the tan cover paperbacks when they hear D&D box set?


Lilith wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
So, is this like Logan's Run, and once we find the oldest gamer, we have to hunt him (or her) down and kill him (or her)?

Consume their brain so that their knowledge will be part of the collective.

I turn 31 in August and have been playing for 21 years.

Damn! I'm already 31. Oh well. I am glad it is the fair lilith that is more youthful than I..

EDIT: Playing for about 16 years or so...

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Sebastian wrote:
Aberzombie wrote:
silverhair2008 wrote:
As for playing I am still wet behind the ears, but as far as age I turn 62 in August.
So, you were probably around to see Cosmo prior to his current human form.
An ambulatory moustache?

Oh, no! His evil even predates the very idea of hair. We're pretty sure he was some form of hyper-intelligent protoplasm, or perhaps a sentient black hole.

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Whew, I thought I would be up there in the age bracket, but I seem to be pretty middle of the road at age 43. Started AD&D in 1979.

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Chris Mortika - I loved my Arduin books! So bummed they died in a flood.


Fray wrote:
I loved my Arduin books! So bummed they died in a flood.

Remember the most wanted list from one of the books? Quote= she castrates (and eats it) all the men she captures.

And the list of races/ (Kobbit = hobbit and kobold, with a backstory of two enemy tribes being trapped in a cavern for generations and becoming one group.)


I'll turn 46 next month.
I started in 1981.

First D&D of course, then Call of Cthulhu, Bushido, Rolemaster, MERP and many many others.
I am DMing D&D since 1983, on the same world.


Im only 30 (I now see I am a youngster) but have a wierd history. Started with brown box I got at 10 at a yard sale and could only find people in their 20s to play with. Grewup in a town of only 1200 people including the surrounding farmers. They had been playing since the 70s so I have a very old-school start to gamming. Was very cool of them to let what I now see would be a very little kid play with them. Started GMing at 12.


fray wrote:
Chris Mortika - I loved my Arduin books! So bummed they died in a flood.

I have the Compleat Arduin, book one and two. Are those what you're talking about?


Scranford, Wellard, wow! I thought I would be up there at 47, starting in the late 70's (78 maybe)

Chris Mortika, you didn't play chess for any of the St. Louis schools did you? I played with the Alton,IL team but we were in the St.Louis school league.


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Will be 50 July the 31st. Started playing in or around 74-75. Still have my first set of dice, the tan box set, and the ADandD Players, Monster and DM Handbooks. So, about the 3rd-4th oldest one here. Now playing Pathfinder.

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Lilith wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
So, is this like Logan's Run, and once we find the oldest gamer, we have to hunt him (or her) down and kill him (or her)?

Consume their brain so that their knowledge will be part of the collective.

I turn 31 in August and have been playing for 21 years.

Hmmmm...brains...

Wait, that's not my line.


Just hit 40, been into gaming since I was 13, but didn't have a group until I hit 18.

All my first edition books died in a waterbed flood.

Damn cat with sharp claws.

Red box, blue box, green, black, and gold.
Boy boy, now I feel old.

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Aberzombie wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
Aberzombie wrote:
silverhair2008 wrote:
As for playing I am still wet behind the ears, but as far as age I turn 62 in August.
So, you were probably around to see Cosmo prior to his current human form.
An ambulatory moustache?
Oh, no! His evil even predates the very idea of hair. We're pretty sure he was some form of hyper-intelligent protoplasm, or perhaps a sentient black hole.

Have you seen a picture of that thing? I'm not certain it's hair - it could be protoplasm.

But in any event, I can't imagine it's hyper-intelligent protoplasm, unless we're talking about intelligence for a protoplasm, and even then, I'd want to see some data for how smart the average protoplasm is.


50 - started gaming in 1975. I have reason to believe I bought the third copy of D&D's boxed set sold in my state.

No point in eating my brain - it rotted away a decade ago.


31 in October, so still somewhat of a whippersnapper. Only been gaming for about 8 years though - unless you count in the now forgotten rules for using dice me and my brother invented for when we were playing with our Lego-knights, in which case I guess it's been closer to 20.

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27 (28 in less than a week)...started playing in the mid 90s or so...I started on 3e IIRC.


Definitely not the oldest, but likely in the top margin. I'm 40, been playing since 1980. Started with the blue box, but quickly bought everything that was out, including the original set. Made my parade through the editions over the years and now seem firmly entrenched in Pathfinder.

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32, started playing in 2003. My first game was the session the group switched to 3.5. But I played the old gold box games on PC and Commodore 64 (Pool of Radiance, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn), and my parents played when I was little - so I am a second generation gamer!


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Xpltvdeleted wrote:
27 (28 in less than a week)...started playing in the mid 90s or so...I started on 3e IIRC.

IIRC 3E came out in 2000... You were probably playing 2E if you started in mid-90's :)


Jess Door wrote:
32, started playing in 2003. My first game was the session the group switched to 3.5. But I played the old gold box games on PC and Commodore 64 (Pool of Radiance, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn), and my parents played when I was little - so I am a second generation gamer!

Really? I thought you were maybe late 20s.

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Wolfthulhu wrote:
Jess Door wrote:
32, started playing in 2003. My first game was the session the group switched to 3.5. But I played the old gold box games on PC and Commodore 64 (Pool of Radiance, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn), and my parents played when I was little - so I am a second generation gamer!
Really? I thought you were maybe late 20s.

You'll never go wrong with a comment like that!


the Jade wrote:

fray wrote:

Chris Mortika - I loved my Arduin books! So bummed they died in a flood.

I have the Compleat Arduin, book one and two. Are those what you're talking about?

I don't know which he's talking about, but the first ones I saw were small tan covered paperbacks made to match the original paperback books for D&D. I think there were about five books maybe plus some spell books and monster books. The books were incomplete- they didn't have base classes. Just started with new classes and continued with world info.

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