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A bit over 43 years. Which is in the gap between the "36–40 years" option and the "45–50 years" option.
I started with AD&D in late 1980.
Missing 40-45 years
Thanks. I’ve editedYou left out 41-44 years, which is ironic because that’s the period of the first big D&D popularity boom (1980-83) which is probably when a lot of people here got started.
Played the Holmes edition in the summer of 1978. Me and friend took turns running a character through the porttown dungeon. My character was a Magic User. I casted a Magic Missile and the skeleton didn't go down. I when oh shit! And died two rounds later. But I was hooked as I immediately got the possibilities over what I was doing wargaming (hex and chits).Any game, but must have published rules at some point. If you all hand did up your own rules and wrote them down, that’ll count too.
And why most of us hardly feel like their target audience anymore.Fun to compare the results here to those marketing surveys WotC does where the options for how long you’ve been playing D&D are, like, 1) less than 3 months, 2) 3-6 months, 3) 6 months to a year, 4) 1-5 years, or 5) more than 5 years.
I imagine that WOTC's folks are looking at very different things than I amFun to compare the results here to those marketing surveys WotC does where the options for how long you’ve been playing D&D are, like, 1) less than 3 months, 2) 3-6 months, 3) 6 months to a year, 4) 1-5 years, or 5) more than 5 years.
Newbie!34, maybe 35 years. I started the same year AD&D 2e came out, around a year before Dark Sun (first RPG product I ever owned). Played Basic D&D for around a year with my first group, before getting my own books and doing the transition to 2e. Then never looked back, and rarely played as a player again.
March 1978 to 2000. 2000-2010 didn't play ttrpgs. So 46 years this March or 36 if online rpgs and board games don't count for the 2000-2010 period.
Excuse me?Happy that I didn't have to choose the lowest option (but its so close!)
I got so much use out of Badabaskor as a GM. Hehe, fond memories. Like you we were definitely playing a Frankenstein's monster of D&D in 1978. Part small books D&D, part Holmes box, AD&D 1st edition Monster Manual and AD&D 1st edition Players Handbook.First time was summer 1978 IIRC, the older brother of my best friend at the time was back from college (who had been playing there) and my friend had showed me the Monster Manual in social studies earlier that year (which was one of the coolest things I ever saw). It was definitively OD&D with Grayhawk, and Eldritch Wizardry . My first adventure was the Thieves Fortress of Badabaskor. Pretty sure died quickly, made another character and died a little later . I remember more the elves in the forest on the way ambushing us because we (me and my friend) were telling too many bad jokes and we had to talk our way out of it. I was hooked.
By start of school in 1978 it was all the rage amongst my geek contemporaries, an odd mix then of Monster Manual, Player's Handbook and OD&D. I don't recall the Basic Set in the stores where I lived in summer 1978 (the only set I could find in my FLHS was OD&D). It certainly was their by Christmas '78.
So think that puts me in 45+ range "yikes"
Fun to compare the results here to those marketing surveys WotC does where the options for how long you’ve been playing D&D are, like, 1) less than 3 months, 2) 3-6 months, 3) 6 months to a year, 4) 1-5 years, or 5) more than 5 years.
It only makes sense - with experience comes discernment, and with discernment D&D5e tends to lose out!And why most of us hardly feel like their target audience anymore.
Most of us know this joy and have scars from it...Early 80s (1984 or around there) with the Italian edition of Mentzer's D&D (I should still have that full BECMI set somewhere).
More or less 40 years and a couple hundred games later, I'm still around (and still buying things, for my wife's unending joy).
So, I said 41-45 years, but we didn't write down our little dungeon rpg game's rules that we played in 81-82 when I was ten or eleven. However, I did play a little at 12-13 with my cousin (Space Opera, it would've been), and that's still in this range. Regular games would be from 40 years ago.Any game, but must have published rules at some point. If you all hand did up your own rules and wrote them down, that’ll count too.
So, I said 41-45 years, but we didn't write down our little dungeon rpg game's rules that we played in 81-82 when I was ten or eleven.