Related to the am I too old thread. This asks when you started tabletop gaming and with what edition; with the aim to find out who started the youngest.
AD&D @ 8 -- Azmyth has me beat by a year, dammit. I might have played a Basic Set game at 7, but I don't really remember for sure...
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Holmes Basic in '77. I was 10.
3.0 at 17.
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I started with AD&D 2e when I was 10, in 1995.
Tabletop gaming in Italy began quite late, around 1983 if i recall correctly.
I started with the first italian edition of basic D&D around 1986, age 15; not sure what american edition it was the translation thought.
I'm speaking of the edition divided in 5 boxes:(basic,expert,companion,master and immortal rules)
I know I'm not the youngest but 4th ED, (not for long) at 18
I started at the age of around 10 with Basic D&D.
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Age 8 (back in '93) with Dark Sun.
1978 1st Ed. I was 8,
I was in my second tri-mester (oh wait, no) I was 15 (1977), but I couldn't have started when I was 8, as D&D didn't exist then.
I was doing Gamma World when I was 9. That would have been... Autumn 1983.
I started with AD&D 2e when I was 15, in 2003.
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2e AD&D in...'94ish. I'd never DM it again, but the artwork and settings beat the pants off of anything that I've seen since.
This may be the wrong forum, if you're looking for the most long-time gamer; Old Geezer on RPGnet played in some of Gary's original games. I've read a few very funny, interesting, and revealing stories about D&D's first days from him.
Original D&D in late 1974 as a 15 year old.
2nd Ed in 1992 when I was 16.
AD&D when I was 11. I bow down to Azmyth however, he he.
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Red book Basic Set D&D. I think it was 1982, so I would have been 12. I still have the d20 and d4 from that set!
3.5 in 2006 at 34
Basic set, Red Box DnD around 1982-ish. I would have been around age 11. I still have the box and the rule book. Dice from it are long gone..... I had the expert (blue) box as well. Not sure what happened to it.
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Sigh, I was already in college by the time I started playing. My brother came back from the Navy and introduced me to it. Apparently it was played a lot on ships at sea for months in the 70s.
AD&D at the tender age of 7.
Yeah me too. Probably D&D at about 8. It is a little fuzzy, but I still remember my first character.
One thing though, this was so long ago that while there was plenty of AD&D material thrown in, it was still D&D. My brother, who taught me the game had been involved for a long time. He had some of the really old stuff, with bits and pieces taken from AD&D and added. When I and others got into 3.0, we brought a lot of residue over from previous pieces. Just like old geezer on rpg net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?529439-Old-Geezer-A-history-lesson-plea se/page8
Sigh, I was already in college by the time I started playing. My brother came back from the Navy and introduced me to it. Apparently it was played a lot on ships at sea for months in the 70s.
Yeah, it is in the Australian military too.
We have a lot of people that started at eight years old. lol
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Basic set, Red Box DnD around 1982-ish. I would have been around age 11. I still have the box and the rule book. Dice from it are long gone..... I had the expert (blue) box as well. Not sure what happened to it.
I still have all of the boxes :)
3.0 at 20.
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AD&D at 15 in 1975. Would be interesting to see how old some of the Paizo staff and other Contributors were when they started playing! :)
Blue Box when I was 10.
4e at... 16? I can't recall exactly. 4 or so years ago, anyway.
My first tabletop game in general was not actually D&D, I should note. I started at about 15 with Star Wars Saga Edition.
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8 and my brother was 6. After I got the 1e Player's Handbook and Monster Manuel, 2nd edition came out shortly after. Oh, the nerdrage of a 10 yr old child!
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Blue box. In 1977.
Let's see, if I'm 29 now, that means I started playing 7 years before I was born.
11. Swedish RPG.
Where you play as Swedes?
3.5 at the age of 16. Just before Pathfinder launched, which I immediately adopted.
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Where you play as Swedes?
Or turnips. Yeah.
11. Swedish RPG.
I picked up the red box D&D when I was seven or eight. I think I was playing some Drakar och Demoner before then, though. I'm fuzzy on the exact timing.
Too long ago.
basic/1st ed d&d 1985 I was 15