Happy 40th anniversary Dungeons and Dragons

[CapeCodRPGer]

40 years ago, DnD went on sale.

We all would'nt be where we are if it was'nt for them.

[Lord Snow]

Happy birthday, favorite hobby!

[Terquem]

Yes, and thanks to Paizo, the tradition, in its elegance, continues.

[Maccabee]

40 years! Holy crap I just now realized I've been playing for 24 years!

[Mike Selinker]

Happy birthday, Dungeons & Dragons. I'm proud to be your friend.

[The Shining Fool]

Maccabee wrote:

40 years! Holy crap I just now realized I've been playing for 24 years!

I've only been playing for 20. But they've been a great 20 years. Thanks D&D!

[Mike Selinker]

I decided to put my thoughts in a love letter to D&D.

[The Shining Fool]

Mike, you about made me cry. That was awesome!

[Bruunwald]

33 years in March. Still love it. (Even though I call it "Pathfinder" now!)

[Kthulhu]

I'm not sure of exactly when I first started playing, but it was with the 1983 Basic Set (BECMI), and it wasn't long after that came out. So I'm gonna say approximately 30 years.

[Mike Selinker]

The Shining Fool wrote:

Mike, you about made me cry. That was awesome!

I about made me cry too.

[Bill Kirsch]

Happy Birthday, Father of All RPGs.
Been playing for 30 years.
And if the Deities are kind, I'll be playing for 30 more.

[knightnday]

Thank you for a great 35 years, expanded vocabulary and many great adventures. Here's looking for many more.

[Templeton Algrith]

Mike Selinker wrote:

I decided to put my thoughts in a love letter to D&D.

Well said.

[Josh M.]

Terquem wrote:

Yes, and thanks to Paizo, the tradition, in its elegance, continues.

Maybe I'm weird, but why does this feel like a cheap shot?

Anyway, hard to believe the game is 40 years old. Doesn't seem like that long ago we were celebrating the 30th anniversary. Cheers!

[Terquem]

It is a shot at WOC, yes. My hopes lie in the best possible outcome for Next, and that it will have me once again telling people, "Yes, I play D&D." and not telling people, "Yes I play D&D, only we call it Pathfinder now."

[Josh M.]

Terquem wrote:

It is a shot at WOC, yes. My hopes lie in the best possible outcome for Next, and that it will have me once again telling people, "Yes, I play D&D." and not telling people, "Yes I play D&D, only we call it Pathfinder now."

Agreed, except I just tell people Pathfinder. If they inquire further, I explain to them that it's a lot like D&D. I don't play one and call it the other, but I'm an OCD detail freak like that. PF is PF and D&D is D&D, to me at least.

[Icyshadow]

I still prefer D&D to Pathfinder. Cheers to Dungeons and Dragons!

[bugleyman]

Josh M. wrote:

Maybe I'm weird, but why does this feel like a cheap shot?

Nah, I thought the same thing -- I just didn't want to stoke the edition war fires.

[Marc Radle]

I've been playing since about 1978 so ... about 35 years give or take! We started out with the Basic Boxed set (the one that had the card board punch out chits instead of dice (TSR had a temporary period where they apparently had troble getting dice).

We laid the two page map out on my friend Jeff's family room floor so we could all see it and treated it like a quasi board game, but only the Dm knew what was in each room.

I also remember getting the AD&D harback books (DMG, Players Handbook and Monster Manual) around the same time and not realizing they were two different 'flavors' of the same game :) Man, those were great times ...

Kobold Press has some great memories from some very cool people:

D&D’s 40th Anniversary: Words to Celebrate, Part One

D&D’s 40th Anniversary: Words to Celebrate, Part Two

D&D’s 40th Anniversary: Words to Celebrate, Part Three