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shandiris
Seeker
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 Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 19:05:23
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lol, i guess i truly am a rookie to dnd :)
I started a year ago at the age of 13. (For the orcs amongst you thats 14):P
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Weiser_Cain
Seeker
87 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 23:53:27
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I'm always the Wizard! |
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Donager
Acolyte
USA
10 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2007 : 08:51:21
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I started in the summer of 1980, when I was 10. I was at Boy Scout camp, and some of the older kids were playing. I pestered, begged, whined and moaned until the DM let me roll a character. I rolled a human warrior, and spent a good 10 minutes getting things together. he started the adventure, and a red dragon swept down and killed me instantly.
I was hooked. |
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2007 : 14:14:34
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
USA
1537 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2007 : 21:56:51
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Gosh! I started when Dungeons & Dragons was a fantasy supplement for the Chainmail war game rules, not vice versa! I have these vague memories of the "Fighting Man" character class ... and "Elf" as a class ... and weren't there "Hobbits" back in the day? It's been so long ....
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I have a mouth, but I am in a library and must not scream.
Feed the poor and stroke your ego, too: http://www.freerice.com/index.php.
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
USA
1537 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2007 : 22:07:15
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Originally posted by Mkhaiwati
*sigh*
okay.. am I the only one who feels like saying:
"You youngsters! Going on about yer feats and skills! What do you know about gaming? I remember when yer dwarf or elf made a new level, and you had to go get the blue set of expert rules because he was over level three. That was epic level playing! Skills, what skills?"
Grabs cane and waves it menacingly at the young'uns.
"Blue set"? "Expert rules"? They were long, long, looong after my time, Junior! Young whippersnappers....
"Ral Partha"? "RAFM"? "D & D Minis"? Bah! You young'ns ain't lived 'til you've played with Uruk-Hai and goblins and Hobbits hand-cast by Jack Scruby!
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I have a mouth, but I am in a library and must not scream.
Feed the poor and stroke your ego, too: http://www.freerice.com/index.php.
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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - 01 Feb 2007 : 22:25:37
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Originally posted by Jamallo Kreen
Gosh! I started when Dungeons & Dragons was a fantasy supplement for the Chainmail war game rules, not vice versa! I have these vague memories of the "Fighting Man" character class ... and "Elf" as a class ... and weren't there "Hobbits" back in the day? It's been so long ....
My rememberence of Hobbits was that their statistics in the PHB did not match the Monster Manual. If you used the Monster Manual they got "+4 to attack rolls with ranged weapons." We had an extensive debate once over what an "attack roll" was. Sometimes it said attack rolls, and sometimes it said "to hit." We settled on Attack Rolls means to hit and to damage, to hit bonuses gave no bonus to damage. |
*** A Forgotten Realms Addict since 1990 ***
Treasures of the Past, a Second Edition Play-by-Post game for and by Candlekeep Sages--http://www.rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=52011 |
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SAEDA007
Acolyte
USA
6 Posts |
Posted - 19 Feb 2007 : 04:27:27
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I started with D&D in the summer of 1980 (I was 11) out at Boy Scout Camp. I fondly remember my first character being an elven fighter/magicuser with magic missle!!
After that I was hooked. I bought the boxed set (the one with the red dragon and the knight with magic user attacking it, also included B2 The Keep on the Borderlands) and begun what has now been my primary hobby ever since.
I still have lead figures from that era, badly painted of course!!
I also remember wanting to play an elf Ranger because I read the Lord of the Rings (which at that time did not happen until 1985's unearthed arcana) but got that fix from first edition Rolemaster. We played a lenghty (5-7 year) campaign in Middle Earth which ended when I graduated high school in 87'. By the way, THAT rolemaster campaign ended with our characters getting our butts handed to us by the Court of Ardor!!!
There is nothing more fun than playing D&D out in the woods, at night time with a camp fire going.......fond memories!! |
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Grehnar
Acolyte
United Kingdom
44 Posts |
Posted - 19 Feb 2007 : 23:01:20
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18 - but that still means I've been playing longer than I haven't.
Oh dear. Must get some nice comfy slippers and a cardigan.
Hmm - are meershaum pipes still trendy? It seems to work for some in the Realms. |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 02:08:27
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When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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Delzounblood
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
578 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 10:08:02
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Originally posted by Grehnar
18 - but that still means I've been playing longer than I haven't.
Oh dear. Must get some nice comfy slippers and a cardigan.
Hmm - are meershaum pipes still trendy? It seems to work for some in the Realms.
Didn't you know???
Thats why the dice manufacturers make BIG dice, it so all us old and venerable, arthritic gamers can still roll that damn D20
Joking aside I actually told a kid to get OFF my lawn yesterday !! then came inside to play a bit of 1 on 1.
Grumpy Old git to Gamer in 20 seconds it must be a record
It's prolly why I play a dwarven battlerager, means I can be a grumpy, arrogant, bossy, Old Git in game aswell as at home with the stepkids!
Lots of years (mis)spent rolling dice and cracking Orc Skulls!
You gotta luv it.
Delz
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lokilokust
Seeker
USA
61 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 14:16:02
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i first discovered the original monster manual at my brother's friend's house when i was about five or six, and stumbled upon the red box a couple years after that.
i played my first game in the fifth grade, about 20 years ago. |
yrs. in exile,
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 15:00:40
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It's funny, if you think about it... years and years of gaming, we might have experienced the same adventures, yet none of them are the same for any two of us.
One woman in the group I DM (my Waterdeep campaign), started gaming 6 years ago (with the Dark Eye *yawn!!!*) and she describes her gaming experience, I think it ... well, cute. It's interesting to see that many of the games we know from back in the day have vanished or are far less in the spotlight than they used to be. *sigh* |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Wolf of the Dark
Acolyte
USA
41 Posts |
Posted - 04 Mar 2007 : 07:11:32
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I was about 32 when I started playing. 16 years ago. I'd never heard of rpgs or dnd before then.
I dm over half the time now, but I'm now on a break to just play a happy go lucky rogue (I used to call them thieves, but somehow I learned the new speak).
I was looking around for my old game notes-- I still have some written in pencil, and some typed in wordperfect. I got my first computer shortly after learning to play dnd-- Windows 3.1 just came out that year-- and my computer had this cool interface called DOS Shell... so if you know when that was, you can put a fair date to my early history.
I'm the newest member to the group, by the way. Our present DM started with one of the early little books-- maybe 78 or 79 or whenever. He made up his own world, drew a map and we still use it sometimes. Cool map. lots of memories.
good night all. |
15 years of DnD, but only a few weeks in the Realms.... |
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