What game got you started?
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Sithtainius
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Originally posted by DM of Doom
Ahh, there\'s a familiar feeling. I played in High school, two different colleges, in the navy, and now here in Florida. Every time, almost every game, I ended up being the GM/DM. Not that I mind, but every once in a while it\'d be nice to play for a change.
which is why I jumped at the chance to play in your game
and your avatar helped....I dunno why, but playing in a game with the DM being a guy wearing a Tim the Sorcerer hat and a DMG intrigues me lol
Dragon Forge Design
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Wayyy back in 1978 0r 79 I got my fist Ral Partha Goblins..that was after a went to the hobby shop with a friend to buy plastic model tank kits and we saw this other shop on the way called the Tin Soldier and we thought we would check it out.. it was totally cool and we started buying minis. Bought them all through out highschool and college and in 1991 I ended up getting a job in the industry working for Ral Partha of all places to sculpt Battletech. Did that for 9+ years then moved on to Wizkids to do it for almost 4 more. In all thouse years and 100\'s of mechs later..can you beleave Ive never played a game of BT LOL..Ive always been more the model maker/sculptor painter side of the hobby and now work just freelance. But if I had time I think Id play more 40K and WFB and Flames of War in 15mm WW2.
Ebonbuddha
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I think certain topics should be come taboo. Its getting where you can pretty much copy and paste your answers.lol
Originally posted by steelcult
Chainmail.
Yes, I\'ve been playing for that long.
Then in 1977 or so, Chainmail became D&D and the rest is history.
Course, I\'ve played just about every system out there by now.
I assume you mean the original one, the precursor to D&D, not the now-defunct miniatures game from WOTC? We got some young\'uns on this board who probably don\'t know about the original Chainmail.
I started with RuneQuest. No one in my group was playing AD&D at the time - they\'d all gotten burned out on it. So I learned RuneQuest (don\'t ask which edition - we used parts of all of them!), and then Warhammer FRPG (the old one), and then Fantasy Hero, before I experienced D&D.
Finally one of my friends decided to run an AD&D Forgotten Realms campaign and I was introduced to the concept of Thac0.
When 3rd Edition was released everyone bought it and we started a campaign as fast as we could all roll up a character. We\'ve got 3 D&D 3.5 campaigns running simultaneously now.
DM of Doom
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Did I miss something? ???
Sithtainius
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I think we both did, \'cos I have no idea what he\'s trying to say
Hieronymus
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I bought a set of Heritage Dungeon Dweller monsters back in 1979 and it wasn\'t until some months later that I found out that there was a game for them. That was on a camping trip when I was 12 and we wound up playing AD&D all weekend. Hoody-Hoo! Later that summer my friends introduced me to a sci-fi game called Traveller. AD&D was for \"serious\" adventure, saving the princess from devil worshippers or whatever, but a typical Traveller adventure would start out in a bar at a starport somewhere and if we didn\'t get killed in the running gun battle on our way to steal a starship, we\'d land on another planet, resupply and go out for a drink, thus renewing the cycle.
I always played it safe and never took too many risks with my characters until my friends made me roll up a character with the specific goal in mind to have him get killed by the end of the session. Poor George, the GM, did everything he could to keep me alive; police using stun guns with soporific bullets, bonuses to saving throws whenever I did something outrageously reckless, etc. I was captured by police eventually and I had to headbutt the judge at my trial in order to get shot to death by the bailiff. Once I killed a character off deliberately, I loosened up and had a lot more fun. It\'s something I recommend to people to get them to play a little more adventurously.
I always played it safe and never took too many risks with my characters until my friends made me roll up a character with the specific goal in mind to have him get killed by the end of the session. Poor George, the GM, did everything he could to keep me alive; police using stun guns with soporific bullets, bonuses to saving throws whenever I did something outrageously reckless, etc. I was captured by police eventually and I had to headbutt the judge at my trial in order to get shot to death by the bailiff. Once I killed a character off deliberately, I loosened up and had a lot more fun. It\'s something I recommend to people to get them to play a little more adventurously.
