How long have you been gaming?

Michael Gray · October 01, 2015, 10:19:39 AM

Started sometime in 1983. So 32-ish years. Heh, I remember it well. Krull had come out. We thought the glaive in the PHB was The Glaive from the movie. And if that was cool how much cooler would a glaive-guisarme be? We were kinda dumb kids back then.

Bren · October 01, 2015, 11:56:55 AM

Quote from: Ravenswing;85844338 years for RPGs, and wargaming a number of years before that.

Eeesh, we have a lot of grognards around here.

And here I was thinking that except for Old Gronan, Chirine, and me we have a lot of young whippersnappers around here. Fortunately most of you are polite enough to use the walk instead of cutting across my damn lawn.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;858502Wait until you have to look backwards to see your fifties.

I thought that the progressives would help.

Demidian · October 01, 2015, 12:01:01 PM

Started in 1997 (at the age of 17) with MERP and Rolemaster. So 18 years.

dungeon crawler · October 01, 2015, 12:02:27 PM

Since 1974. That makes 41 years in the dungeon killing monsters and taking their stuff.

Kiero · October 01, 2015, 12:04:16 PM

Since 1991, though I had a hiatus between 1998 and 2008.

Quite possibly headed for another one towards the end of this year...

AmazingOnionMan · October 01, 2015, 12:28:55 PM

Early 90's. Thanks everyone, for making me feel like a kid again:D

Started with AD&D, branched out into Traveller, RoleMaster, WoD, Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer and others. When I found Stormbringer, it was all downhill from there.

Skarg · October 01, 2015, 12:39:40 PM

I see gaming as an extension of play and make-believe, so all my life. First serious wargame I played was Tactics II maybe in 1977-78, then first published RPG (as opposed to invented games) The Fantasy Trip, about 1980.

Melichor · October 01, 2015, 12:56:15 PM

1980
The Fantasy Trip and then AD&D.
So 35 years using published rules. Not bad for being in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming.

Battle Mad Ronin · October 01, 2015, 02:05:14 PM

I started gaming at around age 13, when my friends brought some of the 3rd edition D&D books to school. That must have been in 02 or 03.

Then I played at a local after school activity thing for a few years, lost touch with the people I played with after school.

Started again some years ago, when I started university. That must be around 10, and I have played almost continuously since. Met lots of nice people in gaming after that, wouldn't give it up for the foreseeable future.

As a counter-balance to all those who say this thread makes them feel old, I've never felt younger

trechriron · October 01, 2015, 02:34:02 PM

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.

Quote from: dbm;85846232 years for me, starting with BECMI Red Box D&D...

Me too! Red Box, 1981, saw the commercial for Toys R us on TV and just had to have it. Never looked back! :-) So about 33 years for me now.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;858406I started miniatures wargaming in 1970 or 1971, and in 1972 I started playing "Greyhawk," which is what we called Gary's D&D game before publication.

I was born in 1971. :-) P.S. Thanks for play-testing the founding game of the coolest fucking hobby on earth. Much love to you G.

Bobloblah · October 01, 2015, 02:45:38 PM

Thirty-odd years, started in the early eighties. Played AD&D first, then later DMed BECMI.

3rik · October 01, 2015, 02:49:30 PM

Started in the early 1990s, not sure about the exact year, probably '92 or '93. Had a hiatus during 2000-2005. I'm currently in my mid-forties so I was late to RPGs.

Durn · October 01, 2015, 02:59:39 PM

I told my group last night, 28years, which is longer than most of them have been dressing themselves. I said, "It's an addiction but at least its not heroin."

JoeNuttall · October 01, 2015, 03:44:36 PM

I started playing 35 years ago (age

with a game of T&T but moved swiftly onto BX D&D. I've had a couple of breaks so only about 21 years of actual play:

88-88 (T&T, BX D&D, AD&D, MERP, Star Frontiers, Rolemaster)
93-98 (Rolemaster)
2010-15 (BX D&D, Star Frontiers, FASERIP, OD&D, Explore)

flyingmice · October 01, 2015, 04:33:55 PM

Played my first RPG in November of 1977, after my 21st birthday. After that one game, I got my own group together and GMed. Played a lot of wargames before that. I run three games a week now, over IRC and face to face.