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Sindal
2021-10-29, 07:01 AM
Simple question.
Potentially lengthy answer depending on the person.

This counts ALL dnd.

I started in April of 17 with 5e. No experience with it before that but glad I was given the chance.

Honestly just curious how long the fourmites have been invested.

Unoriginal
2021-10-29, 07:05 AM
I've started about 15 years ago.

Magicspook
2021-10-29, 07:07 AM
First or second year of my university, which is... 4.5, 4 years ago?

NRSASD
2021-10-29, 07:28 AM
23 years and counting! Literally started playing when I was 6.

Keravath
2021-10-29, 07:29 AM
1979? Roughly 42 years ago :) Probably AD&D or boxed set for the first game.

KorvinStarmast
2021-10-29, 08:01 AM
Simple question.
Potentially lengthy answer depending on the person.

This counts ALL dnd.

I started in April of 17 with 5e. No experience with it before that but glad I was given the chance.

Honestly just curious how long the fourmites have been invested. Started in 1975. Played a lot for the next ten years. Played a bit less for the next ten years, then picked up a bit as my kids got to be old enough to play with dad. Wife decided she didn't like it, so it didn't become a family game. Stopped playing for the next ten years or so. Picked it back up in 2014 when my brother asked me to join a group and promised that I'd not have to be the DM. D&D 5e, in other words, brought me back.
Editions Played: Original(lots), AD&D 1e (lots) and 2e (not as much); Basic/BX/BECMI (Mostly as DM for kids and their friends) 3.x as player for my nephew's dungeon and for a few VTT games. 4e: not at all. (Even played a few table top miniatures battles in Chainmail, and a few in the Swords and Spells supplement to original D&D - but most table top battles were either Microarmor or Napoleonics).
Never did PF, which is D&D 3.75, I hear.

Catullus64
2021-10-29, 08:08 AM
11 Years this month, as it happens. Started playing with both 3.5 and 2e AD&D. My real start to DMing is with 5th Edition's release in 2014.

nickl_2000
2021-10-29, 08:11 AM
Started at around 1992 when I picked up a boxed set of 2e at a church rummage sale. Played with friends regularly for the next 8 years. Played 3.5 regularly in college. Then went on a hiatus until about 6 years ago when I met and started playing 5e in my current group.

So almost 30 years since I started, but about 15 years of active playing.

Kurt Kurageous
2021-10-29, 08:16 AM
1979? Roughly 42 years ago :) Probably AD&D or boxed set for the first game.

Same. Since AD&D

JonBeowulf
2021-10-29, 08:18 AM
1983 with BECMI then AD&D. Lots of 2e but completely missed 3/3.5 due to being stationed in Europe (which is where most of the 2e happened). Played 4e until 5e was released.

Fredaintdead
2021-10-29, 08:34 AM
I think it was something like 20 years ago when my dad printed off Caves of Shadow for 3.0. The game was MEANT to be played with 4 people playing as Regdar, Lidda, Mialee and Jozan (who were set up with simplified rules). We missed this and I played it solo as a Half-Orc Sorcerer. That put me off for a little bit to be honest.

Then it was like 7 years later when I got into 3.5 and 4th quickly after that, with 5th coming when a 4th edition game I was in at the time made the switch over (I think that switch happened not too long after 5th Edition was first released).

So, yeah, roughly 20 years.

RogueJK
2021-10-29, 08:37 AM
Started with 2E in 1998ish. Then went to 3E a couple years later. Then 3.5E. Then Pathfinder (which is basically 3.75E) in lieu of 4E. Then 5E.

chiefwaha
2021-10-29, 08:39 AM
Since 1990, 2nd edition.

tokek
2021-10-29, 08:52 AM
First played in the late 1970's with the original box set. We move on to AD&D when it started coming out one book at a time.

I've played every edition since then but not much 4e as that was prime family time for me so not much gaming time at all.

da newt
2021-10-29, 09:20 AM
82 - 85

2018 - present

Porcupinata
2021-10-29, 09:32 AM
First played in 1980 with Holmes Basic.

Since then I've played and/or DMed every edition (and probably around fifty other RPG systems too).

I've been playing with the same group since 1988, although these days we play a multigenerational game with our various kids (who are now starting to leave for university and form their own groups there).

KorvinStarmast
2021-10-29, 09:40 AM
I've been playing with the same group since 1988, although these days we play a multigenerational game with our various kids (who are now starting to leave for university and form their own groups there). That is so cool, call me envious. :smallcool:

Rukelnikov
2021-10-29, 10:07 AM
Started playing TTRPGS in my first year in high school, in 1998, so about 23 years

Naanomi
2021-10-29, 10:39 AM
We started in 6th grade with some older books... Basic mostly... So, just over 29 years ago?

sethdmichaels
2021-10-29, 10:47 AM
played a little 2e in middle/high school back in the 1990s but was mostly focused on GURPS and Warhammer back then. took a long RPG break but was very excited to pick it back up late last year when some friends expressed interest in playing. it has now taken over my brain as i suspected it might!

Segev
2021-10-29, 10:53 AM
24 and a half years.

dafrca
2021-10-29, 11:02 AM
Started in late 1977 so 43 years, heading to 44.

However in that time there were side tracks into other RPGs like Shadowrun and Traveller but I have always returned to D&D. It holds a special place in my heart. :smallsmile:

EDIT: I have been corrected by my friend I started RPGs with so I fixed my answer. :smallsmile:

LibraryOgre
2021-10-29, 11:08 AM
32 years ago. Played a 1e/2e hybrid in my Senior Patrol Leader's* dining room. Two adventures before my mom caught on and banned it as devil worship. In one, we fought Xvarts, and my magic-user accidentally put the party to sleep (we survived that, fortunately). In another, every room opened with a flying dagger trap, and we started joking about it.



*Boy Scouts

Brookshw
2021-10-29, 11:48 AM
'88 I think

Kraynic
2021-10-29, 01:04 PM
I started in '85 with AD&D, and played that and 2E into the '90s. I've mostly moved away from D&D as a system, though I do still play some Pathfinder.

Eldariel
2021-10-29, 01:07 PM
I played my first game of AD&D (1e) in '95. I was 10 or 11 at the time. Must've been 10 actually, it was in the spring. Though I got to the game more seriously (DMing myself) about 7 years later in 2002 if I recall correctly.

Telok
2021-10-29, 01:33 PM
'87 or '88, blue box, AD&Ds, 3, 3.x, 4, 5, and a spread of other games.

Waazraath
2021-10-29, 02:01 PM
+/- 30 years... started round 1990 with some friends from my village, one of them had the Rules Cyclopedia, and later several folks had the AD&D books. I played a lot of 3.x (started with 3.0 but quickly turned over to 3.5), kept playing that til 5e came out.

The people I play with now are friends from high school and university.

Lord Torath
2021-10-29, 02:15 PM
1979? Roughly 42 years ago :) Probably AD&D or boxed set for the first game.Dang, that makes me feel really old. I started when I was five or six in 1979, I think. It might have been a couple years later. My older brother was DM. We played B/X. My brother moved out, and I bought the Companion set (BECMI), and started DMing for my little brother. Around 1990 or so I bought The Tome of Magic, and we transitioned to 2E.

Composer99
2021-10-29, 02:55 PM
Started in 1988, playing Red Box basic (my Dad was DM).

Went through AD&D 2e, 3e/3.5, PF, and then 5e, with the occasional hiatus here and there.

oxybe
2021-10-29, 03:13 PM
was about 11-12 when I started, so about 24-25 years ago with 2nd ed.

Jorren
2021-10-29, 03:34 PM
On and off from 1978 - 2015. 3.5 was the last edition of the game I played.

Carecalmo
2021-10-29, 04:31 PM
Played my 3rd session this very Thursday. So about a month.

Had been interested in playing for, what, 16 years?

Thrudd
2021-10-29, 04:42 PM
Around 30 years. Started with hand-me-down Basic box and 1e AD&D

HumanFighter
2021-10-29, 05:11 PM
12 years. Started with D&D 3.5. Have heavy bias in favor of that system as a result, but still enjoy other systems, as long as they aren't crap.
Pathfinder is...well, I have a complicated history with it, to say the least.

Ogre Mage
2021-10-30, 04:45 AM
I first played in 1986 (1E). But I've gone for long stretches without playing.

Melayl
2021-10-30, 05:08 PM
I started with OD&D and my brother as a DM in '85, I think. Played off and on through 2e as player and DM through the early 90's, and then a few times with 3rd edition after that. Played quite a bit over the years with my cousin's homebrew system since '86 or '87, too.

Jay R
2021-10-30, 06:19 PM
46 years ago (September or October 1975), I played my first game with the three original pamphlets of D&D in the white box, with Chainmail as the combat system. The available classes were Fighting Man, Magic-User, and Cleric.

By my second game later that week, we had the first supplement Greyhawk, which included Paladins and Thieves, as well as a complete combat system.

Corvus
2021-10-31, 07:49 PM
I first saw it in a local toy store in the early/mid 80s - maybe 84? First time I experienced it was in about 88. A school friend had inherited the 1st edition game and a pile of old characters. I rolled up a character and killed a couple of things with him but we wren't really playing.

First time I properly played was in 91 when I joined a group. I think we started with basic but soon were onto 2e and that was what we played with a lot. I was with that group, right through 3e and 4e, until 2013 when I had to move across country. 22 years with a group has a lot of memories.

Sadly have barely played since then. Job and family get in the way of getting out and looking for a new group. I still keep buying new games though and storing them until the day the kids are old enough to play with.

Quertus
2021-10-31, 08:04 PM
Man, it's hard to say. Started in maybe 3rd grade, maybe 40 years ago?

Started as a poor scribe, simply copying pages of rules from other people's books.

Quickly decided I wanted experience playing with every group, in every system, that I could, to maximize my exposure to different RPG ideas.

Rarely was there a period where D&D wasn't at least one of the systems I was playing.

Once I got out of the house, where no longer would the religious patriarch burn my books, I began amassing my own collection.

I still prefer 2e D&D, even if the quality of published modules includes my vote for worst module I've ever read.

Still playing D&D whenever possible.

ngilop
2021-10-31, 09:56 PM
Started playing in 1987.

Started DMing in 1998.

jjordan
2021-10-31, 10:02 PM
I started in 1982. So that's 39 years.

Coventry
2021-10-31, 10:35 PM
1979. The AD&D Monster Manual and Player's handbook were out, but the Dungeon Master's Guide was not. So, ~42 years.

I've owned many more books than I've played (although I scavenged some boss fight mechanics from 4th edition back into 3.PF). Some Gamma World, one session of Boot Hill.

Mutazoia
2021-11-01, 01:33 AM
My first D&D rule book was 8.5 x 5.5 saddle stiched and came in a plastic baggie ;)

Tarmor
2021-11-01, 01:47 AM
Introduced to the game at High School in 1980. Still playing 41 years later!

Myth27
2021-11-10, 09:38 AM
2003 with dnd 3.5

Yora
2021-11-10, 10:24 AM
I remember that when I got interested in D&D, I waited a few more weeks because 3rd edition was about to get released. So I started pretty much when 3rd edition launched in 2000, with the Forgotten Realms stuff I bought still being AD&D 2nd edition material.

Easy e
2021-11-10, 10:27 AM
Late 80's, but played a few RPGs besides just D&D.

Jophiel
2021-11-10, 02:06 PM
I'll say 1981. I think I played earlier since my friend's older brother introduced us to the game but Christmas 1981 was when my mom bought me a copy of the 1e PHB and my father bought me a copy of the Red Box basic set. Which led to some odd hybrid play until I got my hands on a 1e DMG and Monster Manual but, hey, it worked.

Unlike some of society's devil-fearing parents, my mom figured that me hanging out at home playing D&D or tinkering on the Commodore 64 was better than me off roaming feral in the mean suburban streets.

sktarq
2021-11-10, 02:22 PM
October 12th 1988

BECMI

Amidus Drexel
2021-11-14, 05:53 PM
Since around '05, so ~16 years or so. We played some poorly-thought-out homebrew systems that we called D&D before getting both 3.5 box sets (one had a black dragon and one had a blue dragon), and eventually a slew of 3.5 books.

I briefly played some 4e in college, but never really got a campaign going. I've been playing 3.5 and 5e since.

Jophiel
2021-11-14, 06:36 PM
We played some poorly-thought-out homebrew systems that we called D&D
Hey, that's how Gygax got started!

dafrca
2021-11-14, 07:57 PM
October 12th 1988

BECMI

I am impressed you know the exact date. I wish I did for fun, but have no idea the exact date. :smallbiggrin:

Leon
2021-11-14, 08:56 PM
Early 90s, i know it was before Highschool but cant recall by how much and then it wasn't till 3.5 came out that i really got into it and owned my own books.

PhoenixPhyre
2021-11-14, 09:35 PM
If we count the various CRPG versions, since Pools of Radiance. Played the later ones (Baldur's Gate and NWN mostly) heavily. Read many of the books growing up. Mom never let me get into actually playing, though. My brother and I did lots of free-form role playing (what we'd now call Isekai-type, with ourselves being thrust into a new situation, rather than being really different characters).

Started at the tabletop in the summer of 2014, after I was asked to head up the D&D club at the school I taught at. Bought a bunch of 4e books, ran a couple games that year as part of the club. Then switched to 5e the next year. I've been DM'ing probably 95% of that time, usually 1-2 games per week in different groups (with some gaps). Played one (short) campaign (about 5 sessions that I was part of before real life intervened) of PF, did not especially like it.

olskool
2021-11-15, 12:39 AM
45 years on and off. I started with the original HOLMES "Blue box" edition and played through to 2E. I didn't touch it again until my nephew asked me to try 5e... I was too involved in both a long-term (7 years) RUNEQUEST game (based on a hybridized 2E and 3E ruleset) and a long-term DARK CONSPIRACY game (based on GDW's version 2.2 rules with a LOT of homebrew rules).

KorvinStarmast
2021-11-15, 09:04 AM
I was too involved in both a long-term (7 years) RUNEQUEST game I am so envious. :smallcool:

Velaryon
2021-11-16, 12:27 AM
I started in fall of 2001, so it's been 20 years now.
I DMed my first game starting in summer of 2002, so 19 years of that.

PhoenixPhyre
2021-11-16, 12:54 AM
I started in fall of 2001, so it's been 20 years now.


2001...20 years ago...Please, stop making me feel old... :)

KorvinStarmast
2021-11-16, 10:29 AM
2001...20 years ago...Please, stop making me feel old... :) He'll do that as soon as you get offa my lawn! :smallbiggrin:

LibraryOgre
2021-11-16, 01:49 PM
2001...20 years ago...Please, stop making me feel old... :)


He'll do that as soon as you get offa my lawn! :smallbiggrin:

All you dang whippersnappers and your fancy dice and pdfs... in my day, we had chits and mimeographed character sheets, and we liked it!

KorvinStarmast
2021-11-16, 02:15 PM
All you dang whippersnappers and your fancy dice and pdfs... in my day, we had chits and mimeographed character sheets, and we liked it!
Before we had polyhedral dice, we had a bowl with cheap plastic poker chips in it, one each for d4, d8, d10{1} and d20. You covered the bowl, shook it, held it up over your own head and pulled out a chip.
It worked but when we got those fancy dice we never went back to chips.

For character sheets, we had 3.5 index cards and mechanical pencils. It's all we needed. :smallsmile:

{1} For d12 you rolled 2d6: even white die was 1-6 on the red one, and odd on the white die was 7-12 on the red one.

Kraynic
2021-11-16, 02:46 PM
All you dang whippersnappers and your fancy dice and pdfs... in my day, we had chits and mimeographed character sheets, and we liked it!

Mimeographed?! You were pampered! I played for years having to lay out my own sheets on notebook paper. (Still liked it though!)

LibraryOgre
2021-11-16, 03:33 PM
Mimeographed?! You were pampered! I played for years having to lay out my own sheets on notebook paper. (Still liked it though!)

TBH, I can still lay out a 2nd edition character sheet on a page of college ruled.

Arkhios
2021-11-16, 03:51 PM
Let's see... I got introduced to D&D via Living Greyhawk right after the campaign transitioned from 3.0 to 3.5, making 3.5 PHB (1st printing!) the very first RPG book I ever bought, so I guess since July 2003? Roughly 18 years and 4 months. Fun fact: the same book is still intact, and in weekly use apart from some superficial tearing on the edges of the cover. Even the spine is still in good shape!

Wintermoot
2021-11-16, 03:55 PM
First played as a sophomore in 1989 with the BECMI set and moved to 1st edition rapidly. Moved to 2nd Edition within a year or two. Stayed with that up until 99 ish or whenever 3rd edition came out. Moved to Pathfinder 1e when 4e came out. Never played 4e. Played 5e once or twice.

Currently play Pathfinder 1e, but don't have an active game at the moment.

vasilidor
2021-11-16, 07:34 PM
since 93? I think?
Somewhere around there.

DrewID
2021-11-16, 11:28 PM
Started in the Fall of 1978 in high school with OD&D, gradually transitioned to AD&D as the books came out.
Spent the first half of the 80s waffling between house-ruled to near unrecognizable AD&D and out-and-out home rolled systems, until I switched to GURPS in 1987.
Played in one campaign of 2E in about 1990. Never played a version newer than that.
Ran two adventures in a campaign of heavily house-ruled OD&D* a couple of years ago until it became clear that no one in our group had any interest in OSR except me.
Still get together weekly (it's Discord now) with a couple of friends from my college gaming group weekly, but we don't do too much gaming any more. When we do, it's not D&D.

So while I started playing 43 years ago, I really only played D&D for less than ten years.

DrewID

* was there ever any other kind?

olskool
2021-11-17, 11:06 AM
Talking with my nephew about this thread, I am reminded that there is a generation here that has NEVER known a world without...

- MICROWAVE OVENS
- REMOTE CONTROLLED TV
- VIDEO RECORDERS/CD PLAYERS
- PERSONAL COMPUTERS
- CELL PHONES
- VIDEO GAMES

Raise your hand IF you're a "grognard" like me! :amused:

Jarawara
2021-11-17, 11:50 AM
Talking with my nephew about this thread, I am reminded that there is a generation here that has NEVER known a world without...

- MICROWAVE OVENS
- REMOTE CONTROLLED TV
- VIDEO RECORDERS/CD PLAYERS
- PERSONAL COMPUTERS
- CELL PHONES
- VIDEO GAMES

Raise your hand IF you're a "grognard" like me! :amused:


Hand proudly raised!!!

I started in 1980-ish (not sure exactly, it was my freshman year, so "a year" starts in September and ends in June). When they published AD&D (what you whippersnappers call "1st edition", but in fact was about the fourth or fifth version of D&D), they didn't come out with the full set of three primary books all at once. They published Monster Manual first, Player's Handbook the following year, and the Dungeon Master's Guide the year after that. Only the first two were available when I started, though that might have just been on backorder.

I started playing in the gamestore group, but soon after started a campaign for a friend of mine. He moved away after highschool, so I scrapped the campaign and began preparing a new one. Later, as I expanded the map of the new ongoing campaign, I realized that the old map could be added in as the far coast the northern lands... basically restoring the original campaign world back into the whole.

40 years later, I've added much, much more, and ran many a game throughout the expanding world. My high point was an online game with a good friend from Australia which lasted nine years to full completion. But with that pinnacle of success, I've kinda lost the desire to just go dungeon scrapping again, and so I really don't play much anymore.

My gaming days are not done, but they kinda are on pause, and my campaign world waits to someday rise again.

KorvinStarmast
2021-11-18, 09:47 AM
. Even the spine is still in good shape! My 5e PHB, first printing, fell apart along the spin within the first half of a year and I didn't try for a refund. I just took it apart and it's all now in two loose leaf binders, each page in its own plastic protected sleeve. Easy to use, and marked with index tabs. All of my TSR books have spines still intact.

* was there ever any other kind? Nope. :smallsmile:

Talking with my nephew about this thread, I am reminded that there is a generation here that has NEVER known a world without...

- MICROWAVE OVENS
- REMOTE CONTROLLED TV
- VIDEO RECORDERS/CD PLAYERS
- PERSONAL COMPUTERS
- CELL PHONES
- VIDEO GAMES

Raise your hand IF you're a "grognard" like me! :amused: *raises hand* I was around before touch tone phones were around. Dial phones. There was only one phone company. Seat belts were options on cars.

My high point was an online game with a good friend from Australia which lasted nine years to full completion. That's awesome. :smallsmile:

Eldan
2021-11-18, 09:49 AM
Started before 3.5 came out. Must have been around 2000?

That said, there have been years in between where I didn't play D&D, but only other RPGs.

dafrca
2021-11-18, 04:06 PM
*raises hand* I was around before touch tone phones were around. Dial phones. There was only one phone company.

I remember my Grandparents had a "Party Line". I was so happy when we got a "private" line in our house. :biggrin:

EccentricCircle
2021-11-19, 03:03 AM
I had a red box on the board games shelf for years while I was growing up (in the mid 90s, so it was already a decade old, don't know where or when my parents picked it up.)
I must have played the solo adventure a few times, I know my first character was Eglin Darynson, a dwarf who I'm now playing in 5e.
Around the turn of the millennium I considered running a campaign for my school friends, as we had moved to high school and our playground games had evolved into a freeform sci fi rpg.
The sci fi, which i've since designed a system for, kept us busy though so D&D didn't quite happen a few times.

I started world building my fantasy world around 2001, initially writing a book and planning to run it freeform like the sci fi stuff. So the first generation of characters weren't built with d&d stats in mind.

I then read Warlock of Firetop Mountain around 2002, and quickly got hooked on the rereleased Fighting Fantasy books that were coming out at the time. That convinced us to make the jump from freeform to D&D.

We took another look at the redbox, and then decided to get these shiny new 3.5 books that were coming out that year (2003). I played a wizard named Xander Avelenda, although I ended up doing a lot of DMing as the campaign went on.

Our first campaign lasted seven years, although all but three of us stopped playing at some point during uni. I on the other hand expanded the group as I met more gamers, introducing new regions and eras as I went.

So my living world campaign has now been going on non stop for 20 years. The longest coherent campaign within that world is 10 years old now. A few others are longer, but have evolved Ship of Theseus style so that there has been near total turn over of players and characters. Still thats the advantage of a living world!

In terms of editions I've played: OD&D, red box, 3.0, 3.5, 4e, PF1e, and 5e. My big ongoing campaigns all still use 3.5 though, and that's not likely to change!

Got into other RPGs at uni circa 2006 and have played more things than I can easily list here. Lots of Call of Cthulhu and Star Wars, tons of home brew systems, and basically I'll play any thing once.

KorvinStarmast
2021-11-22, 02:06 PM
So my living world campaign has now been going on non stop for 20 years. The longest coherent campaign within that world is 10 years old now. A few others are longer, but have evolved Ship of Theseus style so that there has been near total turn over of players and characters. Still thats the advantage of a living world! That is so awesome.

and basically I'll play any thing once. I've played a lot of RPGs once, and sometimes I wish I could play them again but it's a matter of getting the right group together.

EccentricCircle
2021-11-22, 05:02 PM
That is so awesome.
I've played a lot of RPGs once, and sometimes I wish I could play them again but it's a matter of getting the right group together.

Thanks!
Yeah, persuading people to step out of their comfort zone can be tough.

dafrca
2021-11-22, 06:24 PM
... and basically I'll play any thing once.
One of the best parts of the raise of desk top publishing, PDFs, and the whole Digital distribution networks has been making this much cheaper.

Used to be a time when if I wanted to "try" a game I had to buy at least the core rules and read them then convince the people in the group to try something "for a little while". Today I can download relatively cheap PDFs, read them, and in some cases publishers will offer cut down free demo or trial rule sets so I can even have the rest of the people download free the rules I want to try. :smallsmile:

gijoemike
2021-11-23, 12:03 PM
I was already a teenager by the time I started playing tabletop. Prior to that I had played the JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Symphony of the Night, Secret of Mana, Dragon's Breath. But I started table top playing a pre built cleric in the Ravenloft campaign in the late nineties ( summer break ~98 ). This was AD&D at our local game store. I had no idea at the time but Ravenloft vs Straad is a terrible way to be introduced to D&D. We did not do well at all in the campaign, but that campaign has one of my favorite and most memorable events that ever happened in any game.

A few short campaigns of AD&D later, I was walking through a different gamestore and saw some of the same members of the group I had played with at the first store ( which sadly was out of business by this point). They were super excided about 3rd ed and were talking about the Living Campaigns WotC was starting up. I joined in and we played weekly for YEARS. Living Greyhawk, Living Realms, Masque of the Red Death. When 3.5 came out we made the conversion. We also tried both 4th and Pathfinder. We liked both but for very different reasons. Pathfinder won over in the end ( after multiple campaigns of each ) due to the sheer number of character options. 4th ed couldn't compete with the spread of character ideas and gimmicks. We had a heavy salting of GURPS, Savage Worlds, Gamma World, Mutants and Masterminds, Star Trek ( Last Unicorn Games), Star Wars D6/D20, Villains and Vigilantes, Fate, Dungeon World, and a few Whitewolf systems over those same years. But it was mostly D&D.

A few years back I took a break from D&D for family reasons (growing family reasons). Thus, I haven't given 5th a proper try yet, nor Pathfinder 2.0. Just a one shot here or tutorial there. I also picked up an ran a campaign of Star Wars by FFG. That is a fun game but it is not the crawl and level of fighting seen in D&D by any stretch.

I guess that makes it about 23 solid years of table top gaming across over a dozen systems for me.


EDIT: How in the actual hell could I forget to mention Legend of the 5 rings???! Played lots of that too.

Powerdork
2021-11-23, 12:49 PM
I was introduced in 2012 with 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons, in a small IRC roleplaying circle that sprung up in the wake of My Little Pony's 4th generation. I eventually moved onto indie d20 (and d20 at large), then just indie games, but 4e D&D still holds a place in my heart.

Mordante
2021-11-25, 05:17 AM
September 2017

Before that time since the early 00s I played Talislanta. Then people got pregnant and Talislanta died. Then a few years later I joined a 3.5 party. Currently in three parties of which I DM two occasionally. But i highly depend on other players for the rules.

hifidelity2
2021-11-25, 05:55 AM
Too long :smallsmile:

But for approx 40 years - started at Uni