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Zeteg

06-07-05, 03:15 PM
I'm curious. How old is everyone, and when did you guys start D&D? On what edition?
Illion the Red

06-07-05, 03:20 PM
In my 30's. Started with the red-box, basic set.
Faragon

06-07-05, 03:21 PM
23, started roughly three years ago with 3.0
dngnb8

06-07-05, 03:52 PM
44 started with Keep on the Borderlands 1980

It was just called Dungeons and Dragons then. LOL
Eliza_Stormwhisper

06-07-05, 03:58 PM
18 (19 next week), started with 1st edition.
davidclemens

06-07-05, 04:03 PM
37 started with the basic set.
Soulkeeper

06-07-05, 04:43 PM
35 currently, returning to play, but started maybe 1980ish? Began with Blue Box, and paper chits! There were no dice in my first box!
wereooze

06-07-05, 04:54 PM
26, inherited someone else's box set, then bought 2nd. Edition ,AKA. THAC0-nometry, material new. been with it since.
Puritan13

06-07-05, 05:34 PM
31

Started in '93 with 2nd edition. Later got into a bunch of 1st edition and original D&D stuff. Now I play 3.5. IMHO this is the best version of the game to date.
assasin_of_the_darkness

06-07-05, 05:40 PM
12

Tryed to understand the rules
got head on into aDnD and then moved on to 3.5
Ath'kethin

06-07-05, 05:59 PM
I'm 27. I've been playing since 1994, when I was 16 . . . I started with the 2nd ed., moved from there to playing with the OD&D rules cyclopedia, then moved (with relish) to 3e, then to 3.5. In the midst of all this, waded through a bunch of 1e stuff. And I'm in the camp that firmly believes that the 3.5 rules set is the best one so far. By a mile.
Andrew_980

06-07-05, 07:45 PM
I am 24, started playing in 1988, first edition began playing with the moduals Keep on the Borderlands, The Sentinal and The Guantlet. I have since played red and blue box original D+D, 2e and now into 3e/3.5
Destiny_Forgot_me

06-07-05, 07:47 PM
In my 30's. Started with the red-box, basic set.

28 now, started at 12, and remember that red box. If my memory hasn't been entirely destroyed from Jack Daniels, wasn't there a blue box too?
Stardrake

06-07-05, 09:26 PM
47. Started with OD&D in 1974 (that's the 3 little white booklets that started it all, young'uns!)
PressureDrop

06-07-05, 09:54 PM
23...started with 2e a year or so before 3e came out then quickly switched to that...now in the process of going to 3.5...
Thorak

06-07-05, 09:56 PM
28, started way back in the early days of 2nd edition. Took a hiatus during 3.0, but came back when 3.5 came out and been going strong since.
weasel fierce

06-08-05, 03:45 AM
25, started with D&D basic / Expert set.

Played everything else since, and finally came back to the roots, and realized that I should never have looked much further, though oAD&D is rather darn fun.
CzarGarrett

06-08-05, 08:49 AM
Started around age 11 with 1st Ed stuff from my uncle.

Truly played with 2nd Ed around age 13-14.
DonGnocci

06-08-05, 08:53 AM
24, started with D&D 3.0 when i was at the age of 20/21.
babysamurai

06-08-05, 08:56 AM
I'm 73. I started playing in the 1950's, but the game was called Hallways&Lizards back then.
Yoho1.5

06-08-05, 10:29 AM
I'm 35 I started at 10 with the red box. I've played almost continously since then through all editions and I must say that 3.5 is the best yet.
Venom of the Yuan Ti

06-08-05, 10:41 AM
18, and 2 years ago V3.5.
Guess what?
I am the most experianced DM/Palyer in our group...
Seldarin

06-08-05, 10:49 AM
My age is 16, play it since the 3rd edition came out...
ShinZero

06-08-05, 04:42 PM
Im 30. Started RPGs when I was 12 with Fighting Fantasy books and by 14 was playing Robotech and LOTR (old school). Next year we moved onto Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with occaisional Rifts, D&D (red box, 1st ed and 2nd ed) as well as Marvel Superheroes. Our Turtle was the biggest campaign and included Ninjas and Superspies.
After grad played Shadowrun, Vampire, and more D&D. Recently have played L5R (original non D20 rules), Mekton, Cyberpunk, Street Fighter, Mage, Werewolf, Gurps, Teenagers From Outerspace, Champions (original, found a hardcover cheap) and various home brew games.

Currently playing Star Wars and 3.5.

3.5 is definately the best set of D&D rules. Yes it does have issues and some die hard 2nd ed players may not like it, but it is cleaner and the stuff they don't like can be played without pretty easily.
~Black Knight~

06-08-05, 05:11 PM
I'm 15, and I started playing D&D after my uncle got me Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
Flushmaster

06-08-05, 10:44 PM
Seeing the age of some of you geezers is making me feel like a little kid here. I'm 23, and I've been playing for about four years, having started with 3.0 on campus when a friend invited me to his weekly game. After about a year or so of playing happily, I decided to invest in some 3.5 material and try my hand at DMing (the only 3.0 book I had was the PHB). I am now more often a DM than a player but still do both and I own roughly a dozen 3.5 books.

Edit: fixed a typo.
Wharin

06-08-05, 10:47 PM
24. Though technically a board game, it was HeroQuest (i was 12) that got me into the whole RPG craze. Then DnD seemed to be a natural jump. After that it was White Wolf games, and then my GM had his own rules system that sorta worked as a hybrid between D20, and World of Darkness. And then finally we started playing 3.0 when it came out, and we almost right away jumped to 3.5 when it launched.
MonkeyKing

06-09-05, 05:58 AM
23.

Strangely enough I started getting into the style of game after playing Chainsaw Warrior (anyone else remember that game, it was the dogs twitcher!) when I was 9 or 10, then moved on to Hero Quest before starting to play Fighting Fantasy with my brother and a couple of his mates. After that we moved on to 1st edition DnD, then upgraded to 2nd, 3rd and finally 3.5.
tuffn00gies

06-09-05, 07:44 AM
I'm curious. How old is everyone, and when did you guys start D&D? On what edition?

35. Started back in '83 with the red boxed basic edition. Quit in 95, but came back for 3E.
MadBlue

06-09-05, 08:10 AM
38. Started with AD&D (1st edition) back in 1980 when I was 14. Played Villains & Vigilantes, Marvel Superheroes and Gamma World back in high school too. Didn't roleplay much in college. Got heavy into GURPS after college. A coworker got me back into D&D (2e) shortly before I moved to Japan. Played World of Darkness for a year in Japan and then started up a 3.0 D&D campaign (which gradually became updated to 3.5). Haven't played since I moved from Kochi to Hiroshima 3 months ago, and I'm jonesin' for a gaming fix. :)

MadBlue
Baned

06-09-05, 09:20 AM
Started at 16 in 2002 with 3.0.

Now I'm 19 on 3.5.
Temmogen

06-09-05, 09:38 AM
I'm 37
Started with Basic in 1977.
Unfortunately, I seem to be the only one I know that can DM, so I hardly get to play.
:weep:
yeknom

06-09-05, 11:28 AM
I'm 29, nearly 30 and I started with AD&D1e when I was 8.
cvazi

06-09-05, 01:40 PM
23, and RedBox
Elzaban the Ethereal

06-09-05, 01:56 PM
16. Started in '96 with 1e, and then moved to 3e when it came out.
Capt. Pixel

06-09-05, 02:13 PM
49 - started in '83 with Basic D&D (I wished I'd heard about earlier)

Most of my regular players are 43+ and having been playing as a group every week for over 10 years. Right now I have two games I DM (1 Adult, 1 Teenagers) and 1 game I play in.

Thanks for many years of entertainment, Gary Gygax :cool:
wizzardman

06-09-05, 02:27 PM
17 [18 by the end of next week].

First became interested way back with 2nd Edition AD&D when I was 11. First tried playing at age 12. First [I]actually started playing [and DMing] about two years ago.
Beer-Ogre

06-09-05, 02:28 PM
I'm 23. Started playing 2nd around 15, played frequently until 18. Friends moved, college etc., and so didn't play for a few years. Got back into it with 3.5 about 7 or 8 months ago and after a rocky start (frequently saying where the hell did THAC0 go?!?!!) I am now DMing a regular campaign where the PC's have just became Level 3.

Back in the teen years I alternated between Playing and DMing. Since I've been playing 3.5, I've done nothing but DM :( . Oh well, beats not playing at all. Unfortunately it seems I am the only one of my new gaming group that is "suited" to DM... it's starting to grow on me though...
General_Ridley

06-09-05, 04:07 PM
I'm 16 and started shortly before turning 15. I'm a youngin, but I love the game.
tariff

06-09-05, 06:06 PM
37. Started with a game called dragonquest (at age of 14), then moved on to first edition DnD shortly after. Now play 3.5, which i think will be last version for me (untill they go holographic or sumthin). Incidentally, we never play face to face anymore..for the last year and a half we have been playing online. My gaming group now uses Klooge and Dundjinni (for maps).
Dartanel

06-09-05, 08:09 PM
29.

Started in: 3rd grade.
Started with: Basic DnD.
In my G&T class I met a couple brothers who got me into RPGs on the C64/128, then into DnD. Later on I got us all started on ADnD. Then I moved away :(
My next group was just hanging out at the Rec center of the local army base and joining any games that had an open spot. That and the guys I met by accidentally leaving my dice/pencil bag on my seat after english class.
Then I moved again. :( Much harder to find groups when you live 20 miles from the nearest town, but I managed.
Then I came down here to Boston and have had little trouble finding a group. My current group has 9 players and at least two others have asked to join. :o
Kovok

06-09-05, 08:23 PM
My group likes to change their characters a lot so they never really get too old. Damn them...
Templetroll

06-09-05, 09:13 PM
50 started playing in '79 with the PrincCon variant of the orignal three books.

Met my wife at a game of D&D and our daughter started playing with our group 5 years ago when she was 10.

D&D bin very very good to me!
assasin_of_the_darkness

06-11-05, 01:46 PM
I'm 15, and I started playing D&D after my uncle got me Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

Yeah, all of my PCs got interested in D&D after they played Shadows of Amn, also some of them even played Neverwinternights... that got them interested.

Me, (funny thing) I got interested in D&D when I watched an episode of Dexter's Lab when I was little, they start playing a game of D&D in their kitchen... I laguhed
kaeso

06-11-05, 01:55 PM
im 16 now, got intereste in the game 2 years ago, went out and bought the player's handbook for version one (didnt' know what the hell i was doing), last summer bought the DMG and the MM, trying to start a campaign now with stubborn friends...
polipone

06-11-05, 03:06 PM
39, nearly 40.
I started buying D&D around 1987 (red box), but began playing only in 1991 when I found a group, and switched to 2.0 AD&D. I still play mostly 2.0, I donět play 3.0 often because most people now play 3.5 around here. I plan to quit when 4.0 comes out.
Dark Voivode

06-11-05, 06:56 PM
I'm 73. I started playing in the 1950's, but the game was called Hallways&Lizards back then.

:ahem:

I'm 35. Started in '78 with the original 3 white booklets my next-door neighbors introduced me to. I can't remember a time after that point that I haven't played. I don't remember much before that. I owned the red box set, Still own the Original Deities & Demigods; the one with the Cthullu and Melnibonean Pantheons in it. Still own the Rules Cyclopedia and my 2e Player's Handbook & DMG (THAC0: The acronym which shall not be named, except this once, :P then never again). I like the d20 system best, despite the 2-year revision.

I know, Too much info. I just wanted to wax nostalgic.
LadyCreator

06-11-05, 07:07 PM
I'm 20, started playing at 11 with a mix of 1st and 2nd ed books. Didn't play during high school, but I'm back into it now. I only was a player for a couple months; a DM ever after.
Nitneuq Onitnarat

06-11-05, 08:43 PM
15, started a year ago with the three core 3.5 books, and now have the complete series and savage species to boot.

Next is Book of Exalted Deeds (A freind has the Book of Vile Darkness so I need to crush him in a LG on CE 1 on 1), and then I'm gonna start investing in a campaign setting, most likly Fearun.
Winter Fallout

06-12-05, 09:43 AM
19, turning 20 in August.

I started roleplaying in late 2000, although with Middle Earth and Star Wars d20. I started DnD 3rd Edition in 2003, and then 3.5 in 2004 to now. My friend's dad often GM's many different kinds of RPG's for us. But DnD is my favourite.
theimposter187

06-12-05, 12:23 PM
I'm 24 and I started playing when I was 11. 2nd edition was already out, but the group I joined was still playing basic dnd with the Rules Cyclopedia book. I joined a 2nd edition group about a year later.
mahler

06-12-05, 01:38 PM
27. I started in high school at around age 14 with 2nd edition and ended up running a great Ravenloft campaign for 2 years or so before our group broke up. I gave it up for the next 8 years or so being busy with college and then grad school. Right about the time 3.5 came out, 3 of us from the old group found ourselves in the same area, started up again, and here we are.