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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
 Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 19:46:51
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| I remember some kids pulling out the red box set during recess in 3rd grade, musta been back in '83, and me askin them what's that. Thus it began. Funny I can't remember the ex's birthday but I can remember that. |
If I waited till I knew what I was doing, I'd never get anything done.
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 20:20:45
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| I believe I was twelve. |
Life is either daring adventure or nothing. |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 17 Nov 2006 : 23:53:02
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Originally posted by dwarvenranger
Funny I can't remember the ex's birthday but I can remember that.
Hell, I can't even remember my parents' birthday, but I do remember how I got into roleplaying, and when... |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Mkhaiwati
Learned Scribe
USA
252 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 00:18:15
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*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. |
"Behold the work of the old... let your heritage not be lost but bequeath it as a memory, treasure and blessing... Gather the lost and the hidden and preserve it for thy children."
"not nale. not-nale. thog help nail not-nale, not nale. and thog knot not-nale while nale nail not-nale. nale, not not-nale, now nail not-nale by leaving not-nale, not nale, in jail." OotS #367 |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 01:49:38
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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.
I am right with you my friend  . I have my red (basic), blue(expert), green(companion), black(master) and gold(immortal) sets, saved in plastic.
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 12:42:51
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I only have the D&D Rules companion, but I also remember a time when you needed to be a fighter of a certain level to become a paladin  |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Bluenose
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2006 : 13:19:22
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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.
Waves Zimmer frame around excitedly.
Though you did get various combat manoeuvres as you went up in level, and had a chance to improve your fighting skills with particular weapons through training - Expert to Grandmaster with extra attacks and AC bonuses. 
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I only have the D&D Rules companion, but I also remember a time when you needed to be a fighter of a certain level to become a paladin
12th level. And only if you were Lawful. Neutral characters got to be Knights, and I've forgotten what Chaotics became. |
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay. |
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Zimme
Learned Scribe
Denmark
209 Posts |
Posted - 21 Nov 2006 : 11:21:30
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| Started when i was 11, back in 86.............. feeling old and grizzled! =) 20 years+, started on the old d&d the red, blue,green, black,gold books, the later whent on to ad&d |
Sometimes I feel like Beshaba is sitting on my back, devoting her entire attention to me!
Rannek.
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Zimme
Learned Scribe
Denmark
209 Posts |
Posted - 21 Nov 2006 : 11:24:30
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Originally posted by Delzounblood
I've just had a thought (no it didn't hurt!)
If someone added up all our collective weeks / years of playing D&D it would be up in the 100,000's if not 1,000,000's....
GOD WE ROCK Candlekeep has to be the most concentrated collective inteligence on D&D / FR!
All of you take time to pat ourselves on the back for keeping D&D and the realms alive and growing..
*CLAPS*
Delz
Yes, we can allways agree about our skills!  but i agree(of course) and have patted myself on the shoulder! |
Sometimes I feel like Beshaba is sitting on my back, devoting her entire attention to me!
Rannek.
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Kalin Agrivar
Senior Scribe
Canada
956 Posts |
Posted - 21 Nov 2006 : 14:29:33
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I read my first D&D book in 1982 (the MM) when I was 8 years old but I only played the choose-your-own-adventure novels as my mother was "protecting" me from the currupting effects of Dungeons and Dragons  , ....when I was 10 (1984) I bought my first D&D product but my mother forced me to return it, therefore I played D&D at friend's houses until I was 13 (1987) when my AD&D game came "out of the closet" and my mother gave up on trying to protect me  ...
But since I was reading at an university level in grade 9, had been buying the Dragonlance novels for years and she had boycotted the local library she read read the DL Chronicles and then Darkwalker on Moonshea when it was published and soon realized that the whole “corruption” thing was foolish and manipulative
I played with the same group, with the same character (or character spun-off by my main character) from the age of 10 to 19 until we all left home and started our “mature” lives
P.S. since I own 99.9% of the Forgotten Realms novels, my mother has read all of them (something I can't claim  ) |
Kalin Xorell El'Agrivar
- High Mage of the Arcane Assembly
- Lore Keeper of the Vault of Ancestors
- 3rd Son of the Lord of the Stand |
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Kazzaroth
Learned Scribe
Finland
104 Posts |
Posted - 22 Nov 2006 : 15:53:00
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| I started around six-seven years ago and I am now 22. I started directly from 3.5 edittion so my DnD past is very small :P. |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 22 Nov 2006 : 22:39:56
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Originally posted by Kalin Agrivar
P.S. since I own 99.9% of the Forgotten Realms novels, my mother has read all of them (something I can't claim )
I think that's my favourite quote of the week. |
Life is either daring adventure or nothing. |
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Aglaranna
Learned Scribe
166 Posts |
Posted - 23 Nov 2006 : 00:05:58
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| *ahem* You know, I started playing D&D when I was five? My parents definitly had some screwy ideas on how to raise a kid. |
"You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose the path that's clear
I will choose freewill." -'Freewill' by Rush |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 23 Nov 2006 : 08:14:29
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Originally posted by Aglaranna
*ahem* You know, I started playing D&D when I was five? My parents definitly had some screwy ideas on how to raise a kid.
Hmm, if the game consisted mainly of problemsolving and roleplaying that is actually a good thing, but if every solution is found by the tip of a sword I wouldn't advise placing any sharp object near ya |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Wandering_mage
Senior Scribe
688 Posts |
Posted - 23 Nov 2006 : 22:21:41
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| I was 13 when I started. Oh, and Kalin your mom rocks. And I mean no offense by that, its just cool that your mom is into forgotten realms literature. |
Illum
The Wandering Mage |
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Aglaranna
Learned Scribe
166 Posts |
Posted - 23 Nov 2006 : 22:35:26
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
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Originally posted by Aglaranna
*ahem* You know, I started playing D&D when I was five? My parents definitly had some screwy ideas on how to raise a kid.
Hmm, if the game consisted mainly of problemsolving and roleplaying that is actually a good thing, but if every solution is found by the tip of a sword I wouldn't advise placing any sharp object near ya
Actually, I was scared silly of all those evil looking monsters...I'm not sure I even kept the sword...Hm. It's really no wonder I never got past 1st level, come to think of it. |
"You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose the path that's clear
I will choose freewill." -'Freewill' by Rush |
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EvilKnight
Learned Scribe
USA
162 Posts |
Posted - 24 Nov 2006 : 06:37:28
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Originally posted by Aglaranna
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
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Originally posted by Aglaranna
*ahem* You know, I started playing D&D when I was five? My parents definitly had some screwy ideas on how to raise a kid.
Hmm, if the game consisted mainly of problemsolving and roleplaying that is actually a good thing, but if every solution is found by the tip of a sword I wouldn't advise placing any sharp object near ya
Actually, I was scared silly of all those evil looking monsters...I'm not sure I even kept the sword...Hm. It's really no wonder I never got past 1st level, come to think of it.
Really? My son (2.5 yrs old) loves looking through the MMs. Bothers the wife some.... Hmm, maybe there is something I should be worried about?
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Delzounblood
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
578 Posts |
Posted - 24 Nov 2006 : 11:22:14
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Originally posted by EvilKnight
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Originally posted by Aglaranna
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
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Originally posted by Aglaranna
*ahem* You know, I started playing D&D when I was five? My parents definitly had some screwy ideas on how to raise a kid.
Hmm, if the game consisted mainly of problemsolving and roleplaying that is actually a good thing, but if every solution is found by the tip of a sword I wouldn't advise placing any sharp object near ya
Actually, I was scared silly of all those evil looking monsters...I'm not sure I even kept the sword...Hm. It's really no wonder I never got past 1st level, come to think of it.
Really? My son (2.5 yrs old) loves looking through the MMs. Bothers the wife some.... Hmm, maybe there is something I should be worried about?
EvilKnight
I currently read my Forgotten Realms novels to my son to get him to sleep at night, and he's only 5 and a half Months old.
He seems to really like Streams of Silver  I don't know why maybe it's the silly voices I give everyone.
But again like EvilKnight my wife gets bothered by this, though not as much as when I started reading Stephen King to him 
What else are you to do at 3.30AM.
Could he be classed as the youngest.
Delz
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
Posted - 24 Nov 2006 : 12:17:05
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Delz, you are...well...weird. King to a 5 yr old.
When I was in that age my mom always read Wilhelm Busch to me... ok, admittedly in Max & Moritz the main characters get ground into flour and baked into pretzels. No wonder I dislike pretzels... |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Ateth Istarlin
Seeker
United Kingdom
80 Posts |
Posted - 24 Nov 2006 : 12:35:48
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Summer'79 - Basic D&D.
I was 13yrs old (God that makes me feel old!) |
The more I read about 4FR, the more depressed I am.
Politician - An elected official who tries to be all things to all people, while always looking out for his/her own interests first. |
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Delzounblood
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
578 Posts |
Posted - 24 Nov 2006 : 13:11:32
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
Delz, you are...well...weird. King to a 5 yr old.
When I was in that age my mom always read Wilhelm Busch to me... ok, admittedly in Max & Moritz the main characters get ground into flour and baked into pretzels. No wonder I dislike pretzels...
Mace that's 5 1/2 month old he was born 06/06/06
Delz
and yes I AM A KING FAN! |
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Edited by - Delzounblood on 24 Nov 2006 13:13:21 |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
2296 Posts |
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Delzounblood
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
578 Posts |
Posted - 25 Nov 2006 : 14:12:42
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
His first words will prolly be "REDRUM!"
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Thmpr
Acolyte
USA
8 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2006 : 00:35:35
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| I can remember it like it was yesterday I was 8yrs old and my older cousen (whe was 10) showed me his new D&D game. man was it cool. that was back in 77 or so. sense then the game has come a long way. we wold play for days in the summer time. man I miss him. |
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Aureus
Learned Scribe
Luxembourg
125 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2007 : 15:28:39
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the first D&D I played was BG-II the PC-game, I was about 13 years old
and now playing for real, 20 years old (started a two or three months ago) |
That is not the weirdest thing that happened to me |
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 23:08:47
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My first experience with Dungeons and dragons were the cartoons on television :-)
My first experience with Dungeons and dragons (rpg) was about 10 years ago. I was 16 years old and a clasmate told me about the game. He made a small session for me (one DM and 1 player) and we played a premate adventure from the "introduction to Advanced Dungeons&Dragons"- boxed set. It didn't took long before I started my own party with 2 friends and 2 cousins of me. During that period you can talk about serious gaming. We fought monsters in every room without thinking why the beast was in that place. (A dragon in a room without space to escape, or food). We played a few months and then we stopped and played occasionally.
Later when I was 20 years old I got a new group of AD&D players who had a lot of experience. I was the youngest member of the group and the oldest was about 10 years older than me. I learned a lot of those guys and we played for about 5 years (in theory we still play but we don't find the time to come together anymore). I really enjoyed playing with them.
But during that period I had a feeling that was growning in my stomach :), A feeling to become game master myself. I found a second group who played D&D 3'rd edition. First I was a player there so I could learn the new rules system and now I'm the game master there :).
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Crennen FaerieBane
Master of Realmslore
USA
1378 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jan 2007 : 14:37:09
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I started playing when I was about 8.. mind you it wasn't the full-on rules, but we got by. that was in like '85, so I have been playing 22 years now. Wow... times flies, eh?
C-Fb |
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Grimbolt Hammerhand
Acolyte
Germany
15 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jan 2007 : 15:17:41
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When I was 16 I discovered the Forgotten Realms and I haven´t stopped playing until today. This year I will reach my 30th birthday, which brings me to nearly fourteen years of D&D experience  .
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Sanishiver
Senior Scribe
USA
476 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2007 : 08:17:51
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I think I must have been 10 or 11 years old...can't remember for sure.
I just count from when the Grey Box was released. ;)
J. Grenemyer |
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Never, ever read the game books too literally, or make such assumptions that what is omitted cannot be. Bad DM form, that.
And no matter how compelling a picture string theory paints, if it does not accurately describe our universe, it will be no more relevant than an elaborate game of Dungeons and Dragons. --paragraph 1, chapter 9, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene |
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KarenG
Acolyte
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 07:14:35
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My first actual D&D game was in 1979 (I still have the miniature I painted for it - a heritage "Amazon archer", though I had a medieval army using chainmail rules in 1973, with the jousting rules, and we played some with the magic addendum. Still gaming, quite a few years later. Currently playing an urban ranger in a city campaign.
As to age, I would have been 27 when I played in 1979 (can't lift cane to wave it menacingly).
Karen G. |
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At what age did you start playing D&D ?
