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Question: How would you classify your experience with tabletop role-playing games?
> 20 years (God was my GM; The Creation was my first campaign.)
10-20 years (When do I get my Gorgnard badge?)
5-10 years (I've been around the rpg block a few times.)
1-5 years (I'm experienced, but not yet jaded.)
<1 year (I still have that "born-again" enthusiasm.)
0 years (I Googled "conspiracy theory" and ended up on this site.)

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« on: July 03, 2008, 07:52:09 PM »
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[Good Lord! I made the poll before thinking about my own response. The weird thing is, I don't even consider myself to be that much an "old school" gamer.]
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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2008, 07:59:14 PM »
Jeeze, thanks Walter, you just made me realize I've been gaming for more than half my life! Shocked
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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2008, 08:00:25 PM »
My actual time spent gaming at the table, 1-5 years. But many of those years occurred over 20 years ago.
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2008, 08:45:44 PM »
Started playing in 1976. Started running the same year, when we gave the boot to the DM and his best friend. (He would allow his friend to charm the party, then allow him to ask the PCs to fail their saves the next time he cast it. We told them to knock it off or they were out - he did it again, and they were.) I started playing with the off white box containing three thin books....

Gaming, as a hobby, I started playing in 1974 - Avalon Hill war games, lead miniatures by Heritage and Minifigs. I was a very young Grump back in those days, the youngest member of the wargaming group.

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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2008, 08:47:34 PM »
I suddenly feel very very young when I do these polls... and here I thought creeping up to 30 was going to have me put out to pasture and shot. ...and then made into glue.
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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2008, 11:02:39 PM »
Quote from: TheTSKoala on July 03, 2008, 08:47:34 PM
I suddenly feel very very young when I do these polls... and here I thought creeping up to 30 was going to have me put out to pasture and shot. ...and then made into glue.

Tell me about it... I won't be able to trust myself after this year... Sad
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2008, 12:03:07 AM »
Started ~1980. Those were the days...
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« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2008, 01:38:16 AM »
Started Roleplaying when I was 13 years old [11 years ago], being minded by my Uncle, at his house.  He had these 5 weird dudes around doing something to do with Dragons...the rest, as they say, is history.  Oh and between then and now, I purchased far to many little plastic and pewter men, and spent way to long painting them - ah the good ole days.
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« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2008, 01:54:24 AM »
Quote from: Turnip666 on July 04, 2008, 01:38:16 AM
Started Roleplaying when I was 13 years old [11 years ago], being minded by my Uncle, at his house.  He had these 5 weird dudes around doing something to do with Dragons...the rest, as they say, is history.  Oh and between then and now, I purchased far to many little plastic and pewter men, and spent way to long painting them - ah the good ole days.
Heh, in the very first game I was ever in one of the players was a Catholic priest. He played a cleric - an unctuous, two faced, venal cleric that I suspect was based on someone Father Semineau knew and did not like.... Tongue I bumped into him a few years ago, he no longer does any gaming, but remembered my first campaign better than I did. (I remembered the parts that I am embarrassed by now, he remembered the good parts.)

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« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2008, 02:34:20 AM »
17 years. FIrst RPG was TSRs Marvel Superheroes. Second was Mechwarrior. Third was Robotech.
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« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2008, 06:16:19 AM »
25 years next year. That's two-thirds of my life and I don't regret a second of it Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2008, 08:28:17 AM »
Started around 1986-88.

First game: ANKH, moved quickly to  D&D (the red book) finnish version and then even quicker to the english version.
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« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2008, 10:00:29 AM »
Hit the 30 year gaming mark last fall ... started gaming in 1977 with a blue box and jumped to Top Secret in 1980, practically the moment it came out.
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« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2008, 12:46:43 PM »
Quote from: Desertpuma on July 04, 2008, 10:00:29 AM
Hit the 30 year gaming mark last fall ... started gaming in 1977 with a blue box and jumped to Top Secret in 1980, practically the moment it came out.

Do you remember the Rasmussen Files in Dragon Magazine? There was some great stuff for Top Secret in his articles. Smiley

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« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2008, 12:52:18 PM »
I got the D&D blue box in the late 70s (78 maybe) and started playing with my family.  Later, when I moved to a new town (from Toronto, ON to Kingston, ON) I got in with a group of guys who I still keep in touch with and one of which I still play games with.
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