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01-31-2001, 10:55 PM

I'm truly the one of the oldest RPG games grognard (at the wizen age of 26 now). I played Bards Tale I, Wizardry I, Might & Magic I. I'm proud to say I completed Final Fantasy I, really a great game--better than FF7 I can say. It was easy to tell what series were destined for greatness (sadly Bards Tale is not around anymore).
My first RPG experience however, was playing basic, expert and advanced D & D at age 8, way back in 1982. First edition rules, halflings and elves had different exp tables from fightes, thieves and magic users. I still have the first edition players handbook, I should still have the first basic & expert rules sets, with all that art from Gary Gyax (sp) himself (creator of D&D). Wasn't yet smart enough to understand the rules however, so the DM I played with thought you cut off your own head when you rolled a 1 on a twenty sided die (this was a rule he made up--a precursor to the critical miss), and there were other messed up things like rolling ability scores with a 20 sided die, etc. But we played the game even though we couldn't understand the rules and it was fun--especially those dice. I stopped playing when I got into this religious preteen stage until computer games came along.

01-31-2001, 10:55 PM	#4
G.W. Guest Posts: n/a	I'm truly the one of the oldest RPG games grognard (at the wizen age of 26 now). I played Bards Tale I, Wizardry I, Might & Magic I. I'm proud to say I completed Final Fantasy I, really a great game--better than FF7 I can say. It was easy to tell what series were destined for greatness (sadly Bards Tale is not around anymore). My first RPG experience however, was playing basic, expert and advanced D & D at age 8, way back in 1982. First edition rules, halflings and elves had different exp tables from fightes, thieves and magic users. I still have the first edition players handbook, I should still have the first basic & expert rules sets, with all that art from Gary Gyax (sp) himself (creator of D&D). Wasn't yet smart enough to understand the rules however, so the DM I played with thought you cut off your own head when you rolled a 1 on a twenty sided die (this was a rule he made up--a precursor to the critical miss), and there were other messed up things like rolling ability scores with a 20 sided die, etc. But we played the game even though we couldn't understand the rules and it was fun--especially those dice. I stopped playing when I got into this religious preteen stage until computer games came along.