I kept my manuals for years and threw them away just last year. Oh how i wished i had them for this game. I bitched on another post about the lack of tactical info the manual that came with the game provides with respect to various beasties. (so what if it was a run on sentence. just read it quicker.)

Wow Tobbin, what a story!! hehehe!! Love D&D style!! ps-having a tattoo is Ok, just keep away from the fangs! Kinda takes away from your overall facial looks, believe me!

Newbie - no doubt it would be one heck of a game if all of us on this board got together! We'd have to rent out a gymnasium or something!

Late again! I started playing when I was 19, back in the dark ages. I quickly fell in love with RPGs and became Chairman of the Wargaming Society at University. There were 3 ladies who were fanatical about D&D and they plus about 6 others, myself included, played regularly D&D, Runequest, Chivalry & Sorcery and Vilains & Vigilantes. Although my experience with the game didn't lead to my other first time, I did have a relationship with one of the ladies, but it wasn't serious. She later married one of the other players.
Sadly, it is a game which is associated with males, but ironically is very unsexist as males and females have the same abilities and opportunities. In fact the ladies improved the game, since they were frequently better roleplayers whereas some of the men were pure powergamers.

Raistlin there are a few other ladies, that I know of since you can't be sure by names alone, who are regulars but haven't responded yet. Bilquis is one.

PS Ladyzekke, your gif is a skipping sheep I think.

Stealth - I don't know what happened there. Let me try it again on a separate line:


But, hey, always up for a good skipping sheep too!!

I started playing D&D when I was about 13 or 14 (ie. a long time ago) with a bunch of (male) friends from school and I loved it from the start. We also used to play strategy stuff and large scale battle games, and I also got into painting the models for all of them. But I didn't get into computer RPGs until about 6 months ago, when I bought BG1 and was hooked. Before that I mostly played strategy games on my PC. I have learned from this board that I am not the only grown woman in the world to enjoy hacking trolls to bits, which is a bit of a relief!
I do have a life, and I am into other things, but when I need to unwind after work, BGII fits the bill. I don't know a single person who plays pen & paper RPGs which is a shame.
By the way, my boyfriend thinks that I am completely mad, as he is not into any kind of computer games at all - It was bad enough when I would disappear for a weekend to play Civilisation. I made the mistake of telling him about this board, and he gave me a very strange look!
Still, it takes all sorts, right?

I actually started playing PnP about a year ago. I moved in with a buddy from work who had all these boxes marked DnD. I asked about 'em and he let me look through them. you see, I have an uncle who got addicted to RPGs to the point of growing facial hair and wearing a flowing black robe on moonlit nights. Kinda weirded my folks out, so I wasn't allow to play any kind of fantasy type games. Heck I wasn't allowed to play Euchre in my house til I was 15. So I was a newcomer to it. But like my typical fashion, I jumped into it with both feet. We are just getting ready to start off a new 3rd edition party this coming weekend. I have 14 sets of dice (a new one for each time we played. You can NEVER have too many dice ) and many many many sheets of hex paper and notebook paper. It is not just a bunch of abstract rules. It is your mind vs that of your DM's, with the fun of getting a bunch of people together to share the experience. Our last party died trying to kill a Prince Devil. Oops. Nice try though. Had it down to a mere 12 hps. Damn. Oh well. I'll be back!

BK

I usually just lurk here but I had to let you have a groan.

A friend of mine from when I lived stateside who shall remain named Don had a friend called Gary. They gave me a set of typed rules in about June of 1973. We played all Summer and in 1974 it was published. Don went on to form a big company, I don't know what happened to gary,***** but my friends and I still meet for a fortnight each year to play D&D and AD&D, Tunnels and trolls and Swords and Sorcery, Also a couple of SCI FI games such as Paranoia. I guess that even when you grow up you still carry the baggage of your youth with you. Does anyone remember the Keep On The Borderlands. THe 1st official D&D game. If you have a copy lying around then pick it up and see how little the concept has changed over the last 28 years.

Scary

Actually I think the first dungeon module was G1 Steading of the Hill Giants, by your friends buddy named Gary.

I first started AD&D in early junior high, and (no joke here) three of us in
a gaming group in highschool had to repeat grade 11 for failure to show
up for enough class time to graduate, after highschool just didn't seem like
any of us could muster enough time to play. No one was around at the same time.

I miss those days, i like the crpg's but would gladly give them up for
the paper/pen days

First time I played was with my cousin he needed an extra player an I was 12 at the time. I was a Half-Elf warrior and I was with three other guys. He took him for ever to explain Thaco and armor class to me...

The first girl I saw intrested in Ad&d was a girl I dated abit, I just goten Bg1 and She loved the spells for some reason espcialy Fireball. I once had my two wizards in a fight in the xzavar village and she wanted to play so she blasted the little creatures in oblivion with the fireballs. Man did I ever laugh. She also like the Ravenloft Van Richten guides I had... If only she hadn't moved to Vancouver...

Now she's a vancouverite and it's a Canadian's duty to hate those freak of nature that get no snow and freak when they get it!!!