Question about Spycraft 2.0 PDF and errata

[dpmcalister]

I remember colouring in the numbers on the plastic dice you got with the D&D Basic Boxed Set.

As for when... 1984 (Red Box D&D)

[Mister Andersen]

It was 88 for me, first year of high school, using a version of AD&D 1st ed modified for use with d6s because my DM only had d6s. Itr was a time when you could buy the hard cover source books at the local bookstore.

[OverNinja]

-87 for me.

First ANKH (Adventures of the North: Kalevala Heroes; a finnish RPG) then rapidly to D&D (first the finnish version, but since the translation was pretty incomprehensible, I got the whole set from Basic to Immortal in English).

[mouthymerc]

It was 1980 and I got my D&D blue box.  It came with numbered chits instead of dice.

[Crafty_Pat]

1980 with the red and blue boxes, though I went back and tried the older versions as well.

[Crafty_Pat]

Speaking of sticks and rocks, my buddy runs a miniture game at his cons called Sticks and Stones where you can't speak in any recognizable language, just grunts and gestures, and any resolution is done with Rock, Leaf, Spear! We always get a full table and draw a crowd... and I have a blast.

I've played Sticks and Stones! I rave about it to my friends. So much fun. One of the best mechanics is how you move and determine bow range. Basically, it's variations of fingertip to fingertip or fingertip to finger root on a single hand, which eliminates the need for a tape measure and gives "more evolved" players an advantage over the others. Genius!

[Bill Whitmore]

Now you guys have made me curious.  What year did you start gaming?  For me, it was 1987, 1st Ed. D&D.

c. 1985 - I remember it being in elementary school, but I don't remember what year it was, off-hand.  One would think that I would remember an event like that, one which has largely shaped my life even through adulthood.

It was with a pre-basic edition D&D book that I first became hooked.  It was the Basic Boxed Set that we really first played, becase the box actually had dice in it .

[Forcegypsy]

The spycraft demographic is starting to show itself mid eighties for me also with the caveat that I was never really that much into D&D. I've played it, but the only significant campaign I've ever run was in Darksun 2nd ed and now Eberron.

Faerun and Greyhawk never really got me interested. Dragonlance was interesting but I never ended up playing or running in that world.

[Krensky]

Late '80s myself with a red box D&D basic set, a first edition of Shadowrun, and a second (or maybe third) edition of BattleTech.

I still have the crayoned soft plastic dice in my dice bag.

[spinningdice]

Most of you were playing when I was still in nappies (or yet to be born).
I must've started around '94ish, as I'd been around 12.

[ahzad]

1981 for me the Tom Moldvay Red Box set.

[tenebrae]

96-ish for me, when I was about 10.

[Lee]

I started in 86 or 87 with the almighty Dark Eye.

[dpmcalister]

Most of you were playing when I was still in nappies (or yet to be born).
I must've started around '94ish, as I'd been around 12.

At my last club, I'd been roleplaying longer than around 80% of the club had been alive - man I felt old (and I'm only 36!)

[Crafty_Pat]

At my last club, I'd been roleplaying longer than around 80% of the club had been alive - man I felt old (and I'm only 36!)

I love stories like this - gives me hope that the whole of traditional roleplaying isn't on an Doomsday Clock.