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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. :)
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underling |
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.
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niel |
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.
Freehold DM |
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...
Aberzombie |
Aberzombie wrote:An ambulatory moustache?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.
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.
niel |
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.)Yerv Kinkash |
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.
Sebastian Bella Sara Charter Superscriber |
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.
Sebastian Bella Sara Charter Superscriber |
Sebastian wrote: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.Aberzombie wrote:An ambulatory moustache?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.
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.
Darkwolf |
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.
Jess Door |
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!
niel |
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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