Trifletraxor Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 So, when did you start? 1996 was my first year, DnD for some months as a player before I startet to GM RuneQuest 3, standard edition at first, then the deluxe edition. SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GianniVacca Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Started with D&D in 1981 but moved very quickly on to AD&D. Then CoC and T&T in the mid 80s. Then Star Wars D6 and RQ2 (end 80s/beginning 90s), then AD&D again, then BaSIC (French BRP game), then RQ2 again. Quote 「天朝大國」,https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/92874/celestial-empire 很有意思: http://celestialempire.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rust Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1978. I am obviously old. :eek: Quote "Mind like parachute, function only when open." (Charlie Chan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Norén Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1981. A friend of a friend introduced us to AD&D. After a couple of sessions I went down to the game store to get my own books, and found that I had not the money for PHB + DMG + MM, so I picked up another book. It promised to be a complete game in one volume, and reasonably priced too. It was RuneQuest 2nd ed. I never looked back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) I probably would've started sooner than I did ('81-'85), but for the fact that my mom was a Jesus Freak at the time, and rpgs were pure evil:rolleyes: Edited December 10, 2009 by Dredj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobapple Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1979 for me. Started with the Melee and Wizard Micro-games by Steve Jackson/Metagaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1976. (Or was it '77? I can't remember now!) You're as old as you feel...! Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worrapol Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1974 - OD&D . . . though I quickly moved onto Melee & Wizard and then to Runequest . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rurik Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 So, when did you start? 1996 was my first year, DnD for some months as a player before I startet to GM RuneQuest 3, standard edition at first, then the deluxe edition. SGL. Just a babe. Quote Help kill a Trollkin here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1979 for me. Started with the Melee and Wizard Micro-games by Steve Jackson/Metagaming. Ditto, here, although I think I started in '78. First full-fledged RPG I played regularly was Traveller, although my friends dabbled with Top Secret and Monsters! Monsters! I was interested in a superheroes game after college (circa '83) and actually wrote HERO Games (Champions), Chaosium (Superworld), and Fantasy Games Unlimited (Villains & Vigilantes) asking them to sell me on their product (this was waaaaay before the web or e-mail). I don't recall FGU's response but Chaosium sent me a Superworld flier with a terse note telling me to play whatever my friends played (at the time, that was nothing). HERO Games, on the other hand, sent me a personal letter and a thick sheaf of product information. I bought the Champions 3rd edition boxed set, ran it for my friends, and the rest is history. Didn't play RuneQuest (for you youngin's, fantasy was evil in the '80s), and Call of Cthulhu looked ten times more evil than people said D&D was (although my curiosity about it later led me to hunt down and read Lovecraft's stories). Read Elfquest, Mort d'Arthur and Ringworld but never played the D100 games based upon them. Heard friends talk about Elric but never read or played him. So I never played their games but I owe my pulp fiction literary awakening to Chaosium. See, RPGs can accomplish some good in the world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atgxtg Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) Well, so far the poll seems to be illustrating what is probably the main reason why BRP isn't very popular. Over 75% of the people who've voted so far, have been playing it for over 25 years! Edited December 11, 2009 by Atgxtg Quote Chaos stalks my world, but she's a big girl and can take of herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_clapham Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Technically I've only been playing Roleplaying games since the early 90's. Starting with the D&D red box and later in HS AD&D second edition. However... in the late 70's when I was still in the crib, my folks would play a recording of J.R.R. Tolkien's the Hobbit to lull me to sleep. So while I didn't play a tabletop rpg untill the 4th grade, the Tolkein inspired fantasy rpgs have been in my blood since birth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaddawang Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Rolled up my first AD&D-character in '92. Cracked open Call of Cthulhu the year after. And I voted in the poll, trying to lower the average age a bit here.. I feel young again:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merak Gren Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 1987. WFRP was my first gaming experience but I popped my GM cherry with Stormbringer 3ed. Hawkmoon followed. I bought and sold the GW edition of RQ3 as it was overly complicated for me at the time. I later bought the Deluxe box and two of the softbacks before tracking the GW RQ on ebay. Without Chaosium my life would have been very different. Quote Likes to sneak around 115/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Heard about it in 1974 at summer camp in Minnesota, but couldn't get into the game (different cabin). THen in '75 I was in the same cabin & was hooked. The wood grain box is long gone, but the three books are still in my basement. Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Well, so far the poll seems to be illustrating what is probably the main reason why is isn't very popular. Over 75% of the people who've voted so far, have been playing it for over 25 years!The poll illustrates that BRP is played by people who started a long time ago (and probably have been playing RQ/BRP for a long time). I don't think you can make the logical conclusion that it's unpopular because people have been playing it a long time. To me, it illustrates that BRP hasn't attracted more recent generations...who want to vote....on this discussion board The data are far from showing us causation. Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightshade Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 1975 with OD&D. Shifted to RQ when it came out, and have wandered far and afield since then over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedeesix Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 1978 with Traveller's little black books. Then in 1979-1980 moved on to Gamma World. Also did a little AD&D at the same time. Converted my Gamma World campaign to RuneQuest in (I think) 1981. Played and purchased just about every RPG throughout the 80s - 90s. Ran the gaming department at a hobby store for a few years in the late 90s into early 2000s, where I ran nightly demos every week for just about everything that came out. That's right, I got paid to run games. :thumb: Quote Join my Mythras/RuneQuest 6: Classic Fantasy Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RQCF/info "D100 - Exactly 5 times better than D20" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrippyHippy Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Well, so far the poll seems to be illustrating what is probably the main reason why BRP isn't very popular. Over 75% of the people who've voted so far, have been playing it for over 25 years! Not exactly a big sample either.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atgxtg Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Not exactly a big sample either.... True. But the sampling size had doubled since I posted, and the percentages haven't changed much. I expect that we'll see a sort of sideways pyramid, with fewer and fewer people as time goes by. Not surprising. For most of the last 30+ years the system has been represented only by CoC, and, occasionally Stormbringer/Elric!. Quote Chaos stalks my world, but she's a big girl and can take of herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 Just a babe. Yes, it looks that way. So far I'm still the only 1996-2000 guy, and no one earlier. :shocked: SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadmaster Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I started with AD&D in 1978, probably started playing Traveller and Gamma World the following year, then bought RQ in 1980 or 81, and CoC in 1983. I bought and played a ton of different games during the 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagabond Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 '78/'79 with BD&D, and then AD&D shortly thereafter. I came into BRP late - 1993 or so, when I discovered Stormbringer 4th. Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarulf Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Like bobapple, I started around 78/79 with Melee and Wizard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 To me, it illustrates that BRP hasn't attracted more recent generations...who want to vote....on this discussion board Not surprising. For most of the last 30+ years the system has been represented only by CoC, and, occasionally Stormbringer/Elric!. Yes, I interpret it more hopefully: we who have met BRP-systems have stuck with them, even for up to thirty years! A similar age-survey of players of other games, those more prevalent these days like D&D and Warhammer, might be interesting. I suspect the age-range would be the opposite of ours - vastly more short-term (predominantly younger) players. I bet it's due to the dominance of other shallower games. People play them for a short time, get bored, grow out of it, and quit - thinking they've "done roleplaying - that's for kids...". (This is particularly evident with WH/40K). A great shame. We're back to exposure. Show 'em there's something better than bashing stuff: plots, personality, moral dilemmas, character development - real roleplaying. Our survey says... experiencing a more satisfying system gives people a hobby for life. Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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