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how old were you when you started ?

Started by petron_age, November 04, 2020, 07:23:47 AM

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zircher

#75
July 26, 2021, 10:59:20 AM
15, Got Tactics II from Avalon Hill as a gift.  But, the big hit that year with the family was Speed Circuit.
16, My brother has seen D&D being played in the school library, described it, and we wrote our own d66 based dungeon crawler game.  Later that summer, we got the Holmes edition of D&D Basic.  So yes, I was a RPG game designer before I was a D&D player.  :-)
You can find my solo Tarot based rules for Amber on my home page.
http://www.tangent-zero.com

Zalman

#76
July 26, 2021, 01:20:24 PM
Quote from: Genly Ai on December 04, 2020, 03:22:55 AM
When I was about ten, in 97, my mother signed me up for D&D camp. I knew nothing about it but was immediately hooked and went every summer until I worked there as a teen.

q.v. Getting Paid to DM!
Old School? Back in my day we just called it "School."

Steven Mitchell

#77
July 26, 2021, 01:20:51 PM
Asked for and got the Blue Box Expert set for Christmas, 1980, age 13.  Sounded interesting, and I figured with cash tight, why start with Basic when you can go straight to Expert, right?  That's what happens when your only exposure to the game is a blurb in the Sears catalog.  :D

Fortunately, a relative had played before and ran a quick sample game.  I was hooked.  Also fortunately, birthday was soon after.  So got the Red Box Basic for that and ran my first game a month later. Been the GM ever since.

T4topcat

#78
July 26, 2021, 07:18:55 PM
I started playing when I was 11 years old back 78'.

Cheers

Chris

dungeon crawler

#79
July 27, 2021, 05:39:05 PM
I started in late 1974 with Original D&D.

dkabq

#80
July 28, 2021, 06:56:54 AM
Boardgames (first one was AH's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) when I was ~14. RPGs (started with Holmes Blue Box) when I was ~15.

Nosaje

#81
July 28, 2021, 01:38:03 PM
I was 11 or 12 Summer of 85 with the Red Box. The D&D Cartoon and Dragons of Autumn Twilight were the gateway drug ;D. Quickly found a group playing AD&D that fall. Been playing D&D ever since, skipped 4th for Pathfinder. Then back to 5e, but I'm pretty much done with 5e at this point, only playing due to ease of finding a group. Also started up a 2nd edition game with my old group this summer...its been a blast so far. I also play board wargames which I got into in High School, primarily ASL.
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