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Post by ericfromnj on Jan 23, 2018 19:30:15 GMT -8
I don’t remember my first game. I remember buying the red box at Kmart in 1981. Then iit just became a part of my life.
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sockjack
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Post by sockjack on Jan 23, 2018 20:37:24 GMT -8
7 years ago I found a random horror book called "Don't Read this Book". Ended up loving the bizarre and fantastic stories in it and found out it was based on a similarly awesome RPG. Ended up running it since everyone else just wanted to play.
And thus a GM was born.
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Post by jebnotjib on Feb 13, 2018 18:26:39 GMT -8
1978. Middle school. Purple box basic D&D, which only went up to level 3...but somehow we 1st level characters managed to subdue a dragon and take all its treasure. We then went up to level...I wanna say 30?...because we assumed that level progression would remain the same from level 1 on, and that we could increase as many levels as we got xp and gold. Good times, good times. I even remember the module: B1, In Search Of The Unknown...and in fact, I still own the set.
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Post by IPlayWrong on Feb 14, 2018 15:12:01 GMT -8
My first gaming experience was 1st edition ADnD. I was in 4th(ish) grade at the time so I must have been 9(ish). My neighbor Andrew was in 8th grade and asked if I wanted to try a game called Dungeons and Dragons. I chose a human magic-user (4 HP) and my first adventure was the Village of Hommlet. First encounter was the giant toad. It went first, attacked me and swallowed me whole. "He's dead, Jim". My magic missile spell was left "in the chamber".
Despite that, we played a few more sessions off and on. Between Andrew being my DM and he had an Intellivision, he was my favorite person in the world. Once he hit high school, we kind of lost touch. I didn't find a regular game group until junior high. I am happy to say our current group has one other guy from that junior high group. The rest of us have either passed on or drifted apart.
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Post by Stu Venable on Feb 14, 2018 21:09:01 GMT -8
Mine was in probably 1979, I'm guessing. I think it was either on a weekend or during the summer. A friend of mine, Ross, and I went over to another friend's house. His name is Craig. We were in his basement. We spent the whole day there. We played a game of Chainmail on his dad's pool table. Craig played vibes (like an electric induced vibratoed xylophone). We played with that for a while. Then he suggested we play this new game he got, called DnD.
It was the red box. We rolled up characters, and he ran us through the sample dungeon in the book. It was awesome. Life-changing, in fact.
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bobknob
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Post by bobknob on Feb 15, 2018 11:20:13 GMT -8
Weird made up storytelling games in middle school with my cousin and/or choose your own adventure books(especially the D&D books). It was around 91-93. Then he actually got AD&D second edition and then Rifts. I never found anyone into roleplaying near me so it was mostly done a few times a year with him until college, but I loved it.
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D.T. Pints
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 16, 2018 13:50:01 GMT -8
#barglelives !!
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 16, 2018 13:51:39 GMT -8
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 16, 2018 13:53:37 GMT -8
It’s amazing to me how much “blank space” Mentzer encouraged. I didn’t notice it then but looking back there was a heavy incentive to take the game and make it your own early on.
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bobcatt
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Post by bobcatt on Feb 16, 2018 15:26:41 GMT -8
Autumn of 1980, high school, in an unused classroom during lunch period. It was a slight mashup of AD&D and Holmes Basic. I'd read the Hobbit and LotR a few weeks earlier. The senior who ran the game was a a killer DM (though I had no idea what that was at the time). There were four juniors already there playing. Quickly, we created a dwarf fighter for me and a halfling thief for my best friend, Mike. B2: Keep on the Borderlands kept us all occupied for many, many meal breaks. We tried but died, we tried and died, and we died while trying - but we loved it. I'm still in regular contact with a few of the players from that first session.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 16, 2018 20:08:01 GMT -8
Breee Yark!
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Post by EricaOdd on Feb 17, 2018 5:02:16 GMT -8
Re-posted from the "Tell me about your first character" thread: My first AD&D experience, 1982 or so, ended poorly. Our neighbor lady next door introduced my and several other neighborhood kids to the game through a friend of hers, Paul. It was me, my brother, his friend Dwayne, and another friend, Steve. We were all 12-14 or so. Steve and I were the youngest. I rolled up a thief (they were called thieves in those days... we didn't have time for fancy words like "rogue" while dodging dinosaurs!) because... well... that's the choice the dice gave me. Yes, the DM actually used those eldritch charts in the beginning of the PHB that tells you your character's race, class, and gender based on what you roll (3d6, in order!). With my rolls, I had few choices. My thief had a Charisma of 3. We started out in a bar (which WASN'T a cliche back in those days when carbon, hydrogen,oxygen, and nitrogen were still glomming together to form amino acids and the first organic molecules on Earth!) but got thrown out because one member of the party got into a fight with a huge guy with orange skin. I have no idea what the guy was, but looking back based on the DM's description it was probably a hobgoblin. Anyway we had to camp out that night, and on the way to the dungeon (I don't recall now how we heard of it) I found a locked chest in the forest. I rolled well enough to pick the lock, but before I could open the chest I was attacked by stirges. I don't recall now why the other players didn't come to help me. She died. RIP. BUT, because it was our first experience with the game, he let me survive with 1 hp and the stirges flew away. Later on, we ALL died in the dungeon to some trap. happyjacks.proboards.com/post/70646/thread
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Post by grognard on Mar 10, 2018 18:33:19 GMT -8
Loving this Thread!
I started in the downstairs stacks of a prep school library on the first Wednesday in October, 1979. A classmate had the AD&D 1E Players Handbook and let me look at it when I asked what it was. I was deep into Tolkien, Vance, Leiber, and the rest. I wondered what that F&SF hardcover was. As I was looking at it, he asked if I wanted to play... I dove in head first and ran my first adventure three days later. I got the concept of GM right away and fell in love with world building on the fly. I got the PHB for my birthday two weeks later at the Compleat Stratigist in Vally Forge PA. At the end of the semester, I changed back to my old school and took "D&D" with me. I was "patient Zero" in my home town. I immediately taught my closest friends, who were ripe for it. From there we expanded the community. But that’s another story.
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Post by jazzisblues on Mar 16, 2018 12:21:40 GMT -8
I dunno, JiB, if I would call it a larp. Most of the folks I did SCA with were just stick jocks. There is certainly that element, but they play dress up and hold court, and there are intrigues and plots, so it's a larp. Cheers, JiB
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 19, 2018 0:47:49 GMT -8
I dunno, JiB, if I would call it a larp. Most of the folks I did SCA with were just stick jocks. There is certainly that element, but they play dress up and hold court, and there are intrigues and plots, so it's a larp. Cheers, JiB And the SCA has been going for far, far longer. One could argue that ‘LARP’ as a term was merely a branding exercise Aaron
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