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How old were you when you started playing roleplaying games?

Started by Black Vulmea, May 09, 2014, 04:34:01 PM

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LibraryLass

#60
May 13, 2014, 06:08:36 AM
Quote from: Dunnagin;748977I like data, and this thread interests me a lot!
*snip*
Anyway, interesting stuff.

If I've made any mistakes, please forgive me... I'm doing this on my iPhone.

I think you missed or misread my post, quoted below.

Quote from: LibraryLass;748166I dunno... 8-10 for a few BECMI oneshots at school, 12 when I started playing regularly (Last Unicorn Games Star Trek TNG, and then D&D 3.0.)


In the effort of improving your data, I'm 23 now, those sporadic BECMI D&D games were in an after-school program circa 1999-2000, and I would have discovered D&D 3.0 and Last Unicorn Star Trek sometime in the 2002-03 school year though I can't be more specific than that.
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Warthur

#61
May 13, 2014, 06:51:57 AM
Quote from: Dunnagin;748977I like data, and this thread interests me a lot!

Here's the age, date and D&D edition or other RPG people started with, based on written replies to the thread.
To help out: as mentioned upthread, started when I was 12, edition was AD&D 2E, current age is 31 (but very nearly 32... crap, it's my 20 year gaming anniversary coming up).
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I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

Bobloblah

#62
May 13, 2014, 09:11:29 AM
I responded to the poll but haven't posted. I got into the game when I was 9 years old. The first thing I played was AD&D. Didn't like the original covers or a bunch of the art even then. The first thing I owned was the Mentzer Basic D&D Red Box the year it came out, followed by the Mentzer Expert Blue Box early the next year. Somewhere in there, possibly before BECMI Basic, I also got hooked on Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. The Companion, Masters, and Marvel Super Heroes boxes all followed a couple years later.
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zend0g

#63
May 13, 2014, 09:21:51 AM
I was either in the 4th or 5th grade when I got the Moldvay set. So somwhere around 9-10 years old.
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#64
May 13, 2014, 10:45:09 AM
Quote from: Kiero;748285I was 12, at secondary school, which is 11-18 in the UK.

Surely secondary is 11-16 and 17-18 is sixth form?

Anyway. I was 12, in 1984, and started with Marvel Super-Heroes (which I bought having never played RPGs before).

Coffee Zombie

#65
May 13, 2014, 10:52:07 AM
1988, I was introduced to "advanced" Marvel Super Heroes, at junior high (Grade 7). I've been playing them ever since, but I wasn't permitted to even talk about D&D while I was living at home. My parents bought into the whole D&D scare in the `80s.
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Warthur

#66
May 13, 2014, 11:07:08 AM
Quote from: Coffee Zombie;7490311988, I was introduced to "advanced" Marvel Super Heroes, at junior high (Grade 7). I've been playing them ever since, but I wasn't permitted to even talk about D&D while I was living at home. My parents bought into the whole D&D scare in the `80s.
Did they ever apologise/feel silly about it when they came to their senses, or are they still superstitious about it?
I am no longer posting here or reading this forum because Pundit has regularly claimed credit for keeping this community active. I am sick of his bullshit for reasons I explain here and I don\'t want to contribute to anything he considers to be a personal success on his part.

I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

YourSwordisMine

#67
May 13, 2014, 11:14:56 AM
Quote from: Warthur;749033Did they ever apologise/feel silly about it when they came to their senses, or are they still superstitious about it?

Mine never did. My mother is still against it. I just don't talk about RPGs around my mother.
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Warthur

#68
May 13, 2014, 11:23:16 AM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;749035Mine never did. My mother is still against it. I just don't talk about RPGs around my mother.

Hm, this seems like it's worth its own topic, lemme go post one.
I am no longer posting here or reading this forum because Pundit has regularly claimed credit for keeping this community active. I am sick of his bullshit for reasons I explain here and I don\'t want to contribute to anything he considers to be a personal success on his part.

I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

Coffee Zombie

#69
May 13, 2014, 11:46:25 AM
Quote from: Warthur;749033Did they ever apologise/feel silly about it when they came to their senses, or are they still superstitious about it?

My father paid, I think, lip service to my mother's fears about the game. And he was the minister of a church. He was nervous about the casual use of demons as antagonists in a game (by virtue that you might want to know more about them, and knowledge of demons was inherently toxic). But that was a long time ago now, and he doesn't care nowadays at all.

My mom basically laughs it off and acts like her puritanical censorship was not a huge nuisance nightmare for me while I lived under the same roof. I could tell stories... So no, no real apologies. Or recognition that an entire industry was smeared by outright propaganda.
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Panjumanju

#70
May 13, 2014, 01:46:27 PM
My first game was when I was 16 in 1998 or 1999, a 2nd Ed D&D game. But I only played the one game, and I don't consider that my real start in roleplaying games.

I didn't start playing sincerely until University, when I was 18, playing Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. My interest in 3rd Ed didn't last long, and I've slowly regressed in my interests to older and older versions of D&D, when I play D&D at all...but I have warm memories of those first forays into the Underdark.

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Dunnagin

#71
May 13, 2014, 02:48:01 PM
Quote from: LibraryLass;748988I think you missed or misread my post, quoted below.




In the effort of improving your data, I'm 23 now, those sporadic BECMI D&D games were in an after-school program circa 1999-2000, and I would have discovered D&D 3.0 and Last Unicorn Star Trek sometime in the 2002-03 school year though I can't be more specific than that.

Yep, I messed up... sorry!

I'm going to give it 24hrs then update my posted data.

What I'd really love to find out if the entry age threshold has increased over the years. I assume it has, since I can't fathom an 8 to 12 year old picking up 3.5 and running with it... but that's conjecture... I'd love to see what the trend actually is.

I shall update again later.

If it's not a hassle, could people state:
Age you started playing RPGs
Year you started playing
D&D Edition or Other Game you started with

That would be keen

Jacob Marley

#72
May 13, 2014, 03:08:11 PM
Quote from: Dunnagin;749109If it's not a hassle, could people state:
Age you started playing RPGs
Year you started playing
D&D Edition or Other Game you started with

Age: 13
Year: 1991 - The Minnesota Twins just won the World Series!!!
Edition: AD&D 1st Edition hand-me-downs with some AD&D 2nd Edition source books/adventures

dragoner

#73
May 13, 2014, 03:10:13 PM
Quote from: Dunnagin;749109If it's not a hassle, could people state:
Age you started playing RPGs
Year you started playing
D&D Edition or Other Game you started with

Age: 12
Year: 1979
Game: AD&D
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YourSwordisMine

#74
May 13, 2014, 03:17:22 PM
Quote from: Dunnagin;749109If it's not a hassle, could people state:
Age you started playing RPGs
Year you started playing
D&D Edition or Other Game you started with


Age: 11
Year: 1984
Game: Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying Game Basic Set, and Battledroids (Battletech 1e)
Quote from: ExploderwizardStarting out as fully formed awesome and riding the awesome train across a flat plane to awesome town just doesn\'t feel like D&D. :)

Quote from: ExploderwizardThe interwebs are like Tahiti - its a magical place.
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