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How long have you been gaming?

Started by Natasha, September 30, 2015, 08:31:51 PM

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Rafael

#30
October 01, 2015, 03:15:33 AM
Probably twenty years, or something. I think it must have been... '93 that we started with HeroQuest.
'94 since I started with Magic, and '95 that I started with the Middle Earth card game, which would lead to MERP, and the German Midgard.

tenbones

#31
October 01, 2015, 05:18:56 AM
38 years.

Still feels likes yesterday.

nitril

#32
October 01, 2015, 05:36:13 AM
I started 1985 or 1986 so 29-30 years ago with the Swedish Runequest version. I turn 40 this year so I guess I am in the middle of the age range here.

dbm

#33
October 01, 2015, 05:44:39 AM
32 years for me, starting with BECMI Red Box D&D, and I still have the dice from that box. :)

Still in regular contact with a group member from the beginning days (he was my Best Man, me his) but he doesn't play much these days. I'm gaming with a couple of guys from about 27 years and we've never had any long breaks, always kept gaming in the holidays between university terms and the like.

Friends that game together, stay together!

Necrozius

#34
October 01, 2015, 06:09:35 AM
Oops, if Fighting Fantasy books are considered RPGs, then I'll add another 5 years onto my total (20 years!).

One Horse Town

#35
October 01, 2015, 06:16:50 AM
'83 i think. Started with MERP, then went to basic d&d and WFRP, and the rest is (ancient) history.

Moracai

#36
October 01, 2015, 07:01:55 AM
26 years.

nDervish

#37
October 01, 2015, 07:47:46 AM
Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;858400Since 1981. The "Bad kid" in 5th grade got me into it with the (Then new) Moldvay-Cook Basic D&D set.

Same answer here, although I never thought of my (then) best friend as "the bad kid" until a few years later.

If we're talking more than just RPGs, I'd been playing relatively simple wargames for a few years before that, starting with the day when I decided that Outdoor Survival's premise was boring, so all the chits where he's standing are tanks, the rest are infantry, and set them to fighting each other.

Warthur

#38
October 01, 2015, 07:52:45 AM
21 years, starting with a 2E game run by my uncle for my 12th birthday.
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Zevious Zoquis

#39
October 01, 2015, 07:54:28 AM
I started "rpging" back in the mid-70s...by playing Army with the neighborhood kids.  As we ran around the hood pretending to shoot each other I can very much remember thinking "there needs to be a set of rules for this so that we wouldn't have to fight about who shot who and if a guy is dead or not!"  I also remember thinking "maybe you could roll dice or something!"  When I was introduced to D&D in the late 70s it immediately made sense to me.  There was no period of time when I didn't "get" what D&D was about.  I never had that "OK but what do you do?" feeling.  

So, about 35-38 years or so...

soltakss

#40
October 01, 2015, 07:56:57 AM
Since 1982 (so 33 years now) - I started off with RuneQuest and still play it now.
Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism  since 1982.

http://www.soltakss.com/index.html
Merrie England (Medieval RPG): http://merrieengland.soltakss.com/index.html
Alternate Earth: http://alternateearthrq.soltakss.com/index.html

soltakss

#41
October 01, 2015, 07:59:30 AM
Quote from: Necrozius;858402Since high school so... 15 years or so? I'm approaching mid-thirties (holy crap is that depressing).

Think that's depressing? Wait until you hit your fifties ...
Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism  since 1982.

http://www.soltakss.com/index.html
Merrie England (Medieval RPG): http://merrieengland.soltakss.com/index.html
Alternate Earth: http://alternateearthrq.soltakss.com/index.html

Exploderwizard

#42
October 01, 2015, 09:15:50 AM
35 years.
Quote from: JonWakeGamers, as a whole, are much like primitive cavemen when confronted with a new game. Rather than \'oh, neat, what\'s this do?\', the reaction is to decide if it\'s a sex hole, then hit it with a rock.

Quote from: Old Geezer;724252At some point it seems like D&D is going to disappear up its own ass.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;766997In the randomness of the dice lies the seed for the great oak of creativity and fun. The great virtue of the dice is that they come without boxed text.

ArtemisAlpha

#43
October 01, 2015, 10:04:55 AM
34 years. Though, for the first few years of playing, the D&D games I was in were pretty much just a tactical minis game of heroes vs monsters. It took several years before the gaming group I was in to start really roleplaying.

Gronan of Simmerya

#44
October 01, 2015, 10:13:46 AM
Quote from: soltakss;858489Think that's depressing? Wait until you hit your fifties ...

Wait until you have to look backwards to see your fifties.
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.
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