D&D 40 today Happy birthday

[Conquistador]

I remeber when the Greyhawk Booklet came out and everybody was debating "Lawful" Thieves...  or More precisely How a Thief could be anything but Chaos...

Good discussions.  Good Games (well, most.)  Most of my original OD&D experiences were war games in disguise.

Gracias,

Glenn

[shadowking1957]

I have had a bit of stick over the second picture on other sites  but it was done years ago and represented  our characters for our games   and adventures, and was ment only as a representation of my worlds and  company, the first  pic was doe whn Gary died as a tribute

liked reading all the replys  and  takes us all back to good times we had with dice and  our minds

Tony

[Jevenkah]

Other than that I started a group with my eldest son (14) in it. Another friend advised his eldest daughter (14 too) to join the team.

So now I play with the next generation of gamers.

Our Next Gen includes our daughter's group of 14 year-olds, (3 girls and 1 guy), and our 2 sons and the 2 sons of our Jarl Kvig (from http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=54058.0) ages at the time: (ready?) 9, 8, 7, and 6. That was one high-energy adventure, let me tell you.

We were talking about D & D and this thread last night at dinner. Our 10 year-old son has been home sick and this morning asked me what my favorite role-playing race was. I told him we only have orcs and humans in our world. He said, "No, Mom, I mean in the actual D & D game. Do we have any books about those?"

So we got the 3rd edition rule-set Players Handbook off the shelf and he's been sitting here next to me for the last hour reading it and sharing bits out loud. Highlights so far:

"Wizards only get 4 hp to start? Weak, Mom."

"Who plays with gnomes? I mean, really?"

Jevenkah
cheers for 40 more!

[DeafNala]

"Who plays with gnomes? I mean, really?"

Jevenkah
cheers for 40 more!

Well...one of my favorite characters was Kalabash Kerplop, a Gnome Rogue of dubious trap removal abilities. He was given the nickname of "Nails" by his fellow crew members...as in "tough as nails". His preferred method of trap removal was inadvertently setting them off.

[Vinlander]

Happy Birthday D&D. 

[Grimmnar]

Well i can say i will be 42 this year. Been playing D&D/AD&D since the 7th grade i think it was and been hooked ever since. Love to play the setting and always have fun no matter the world we were on be it Krynn, Spelljammer, Greyhawk (my fav BTW) or the various FR settings. of course it was my gateway drug into gaming and i haven't looked back ever since. It sure wasn't historicals or GM games though i play/collect them as much as any other. Had a pretty standard weekly gaming group for a couple of decades but fortunate move about 15 yrs ago has really killed my weekend playing. Just have never found a group since. Shame really. A solid weekly gaming group with a great bunch of peeps has been missing in my life for far too long.

So GRATS to D&D. Thank you for the start. Keep up the fun and dont ever stop. :-)

Grimm

[TwoGunBob]

Man, I guess I started in 3rd grade when Johnny introduced me and subsequently killed me 500 times in the module S1 Tomb of Horrors. Somehow I survived the trauma of that and managed to even stay interested. Johnny did much better AFTER I bought the Basic set and he ran us through Keep on the Borderlands. He was still kind of a power tripping jerk as a Dungeon Master but it was enough to get us going. Man, I saved pennies for ages to get that red box set. Johnny was a teenager so his interest waned pretty quickly as he was just dungeon mastering for us kids when there was nothing better to do. Hell, he gave me all his D&D stuff (or sold rather) for enough money to buy like a pack of cigarettes or maybe it was two.
I wanted to get into wargaming but in those darke ages of pre-internet there wasn't much to guide me as far as minis rules. Hell, I just couldn't afford the figures honestly so throughout middle school, junior high, high school it was roleplaying. It wasn't until my late twenties that I could afford to start painting figures as a hobby. Many great adventures and even now I play with my kids and their friends as I open up the gaming world with them. Although I've taken a shine to Dungeon World over AD&D as it fits what I envision this hero business as being.

[Red Orc]

Totally unrelated to the birthday, but my son's friends were taking to me recently about D&D, and now there's the possibility of me running a new generation through some old-school goodness (including the Keep on the Borderlands, naturally) - I have a whole campaign that I can't play with anyone my own age, as all of my gaming friends know all the source material from the early-mid '80s!

[HerbyF]

I began playing D&D when it first came out. I had actually played table top wargames before that. I was introduce to D&D by some older freinds that were in collage at the time & knew I had a bunch of miniature figures, so they invited me to come play.

[Conquistador]

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"Wizards only get 4 hp to start? Weak, Mom."

"Who plays with gnomes? I mean, really?"
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My wife loved gnomes (and played her Fighter/Illusionist very colorfully and successfully.)  It added some spice when the DM mentioned buttons (or levers or ropes/cords hanging down from the ceilings...) often.  She only played a non-gnome (Human cleric - she is an RN,) once but while she enjoyed it she preferred Gnomes (even had a DM friend carve/putty up a figure into a female gnome in the "pointy hat" outfit painted in woodland camouflage.)

Mages with low HPs - yeah that made it essential you played with people who under stood that keeping your mage alive could pay off down the road.  Many a campaign back in the days restarted the second or third time after yet another unintended massacre of the party with everyone at second level because Clerics originally didn't have spells until then either.  The Mages were very supportive of that idea for some reason.    That no spells at first level for clerics changed almost immediately IIRC, even before AD&D but I don't have the Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Eldritch Wizardry and Gods, Demi-Gods and Heroes  supplements at hand to confirm that.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleric_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29


Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)

The cleric was one of the standard character classes available in the original Player's Handbook.[5] The cleric's hit dice improved to a d8, first level clerics could now cast one spell, and the wisdom score now gave clerics a spell bonus while low wisdom gave a chance of spell failure.[6]

I think the key was to keep the first level players from killing themselves by keeping the setting challenging without giving the players too many chances to to suffer whole party massacres repeatedly.  

Gracias,

Glenn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons

Supplements such as Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Eldritch Wizardry and Gods, Demi-Gods and Heroes (the last predecessor of Deities & Demigods), published over the next two years, greatly expanded the rules, character classes, monsters and spells. For example, the original Greyhawk supplement introduced the thief class, and weapon damage varying by weapon (as opposed to character class). In addition, many changes were "officially" adopted into the game and published in the magazines The Strategic Review and its successor, Dragon.

[Too Bo Coo]

Still one of my favorite games of all time, if not the top.  I cant wait to introduce my kids...

[Paleskin]

First played over thirty years ago
Palace of the silver princess,iirc?
Favourite was always g1-3,against the giants,loved them!

Was keep on borderlands the one with the sic-fi tie in and weapons etc?

Happy days!

[Red Orc]

No, Keep on the Borderlands was one set in a castle near a cave-complex over-run by Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, Bugbears, chaotic clerics and a few nasty-nasties. 

[Too Bo Coo]

First played over thirty years ago
Palace of the silver princess,iirc?
Favourite was always g1-3,against the giants,loved them!

Was keep on borderlands the one with the sic-fi tie in and weapons etc?

Happy days!

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.  My group walked away with an android 'steven' who became a monk.  Later Steven was wrestling the vampire from the Hidden Shrine of Tacomaca and we couldn't figure out why he was not getting level drained....

[Paleskin]

thats the fella,remember it now!

good fun as i recall