What was your first? What year was it? How old were you?

[hogarth]

Basic D&D (Caves of Chaos), 1981, 7 years old

[Gnoll Bard]

Holmes Dungeons and Dragons Basic Set (the "blue box," 1978 fourth printing with module B1: In Search of the Unknown)
It was 1994 or 1995, I think, which would have made me 7 or 8. My dad ran part of the module that came with the set; I remember it being a blast, though I don't recall many of the details. Of course, that's not including my attempts to make up dungeons for my brothers based on my dad's description of the game... I did that for a little while before he pulled the real thing out of storage.

[Jim.DiGriz]

AD&D, 1981, 15

[Christopher Woldridge]

D&D 1976 8-9 years old at our church youth group (before D&D was Evil).

[Benoc]

Pathfinder, 2011, 27. Not for lack of trying, just lack of interest from others.

[Mike Mistele]

D&D Basic Box (Erol Otus cover), March 1982, 17. I'd gone to Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby with some money I'd gotten for my birthday, intending on buying a model rocket kit...but they didn't have any models in stock which I wanted. As I turned away from the rocketry display, I saw a display, on an "end cap" (the shelves at the end of an aisle) of the D&D Box. Having heard about the game (in part from the media, in part from my neighbors, who played), and being a fan of Tolkien, I picked it up.

My first character was an elf named Rolf ("elf" being both your race and class in that edition).

Played a few games with the neighbors, going through the "Keep on the Borderlands" module which was in the box. I switched to AD&D a few months later, and joined an established group which I found through the FLGS...31 years later, I still play with some of those same folks.

[Malach the Merciless]

Basic D & D, 1979, 7 year old, Keep on the Borderlands.

[zylphryx]

OD&D<>'75 or '76<>7 or 8

Still have 2 of the 3 books from the boxed set (missing book 3) as well as Blackmoor and Gods, Demigods and Heroes.

[Hama]

AD&D 2nd ed, 1998. 11.
Shortly followed by GURPS

[Blue_Hill]

Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP, finnish version KERP), ~2000, ~10.

[Fromper]

D&D red box basic set, 1983, 10 years old

[Pooky423]

2008-2nd AD&D -10

[The Mad Badger]

Basic Box 1979 I think it was. I was 7.

[Danta Wukong]

3.5 D&D, 2001, 10

I actually DMed my first game between me and my dad since I have always since then been looking for a group which I do find occasionally. I ran a starting scenario. As I always read the rules to games before we played anything.

My dad was a dwarf fighter and ran away when he saw the rats were tough and started a flower shop, my dad could never comprehend being part of an adventure and always thought good roleplaying meant try your best to not be part of anything. My ten year old self told him I was the DM and in control of the world so all his flowers rot! It makes me laugh to this day.