Happy 40th anniversary Dungeons and Dragons!

[klarg1]

I also started playing D&D (and later other games) some time around '83 or '84. I was pretty young, which makes the exact time a little hard to pin down. I also got my first red box from a local hobby store, although my best friend of the time had some of the AD&D books too - He was the one who got me into the game. (No idea how he found it.)

 

Around the time I went to college, I also started regularly hanging around my FLGS, which, for the first decade or so, was home to a really great gaming community. Doing that greatly expanded my gaming experience, and left me with lots of gamer friends. A few years after college, I started regularly attending conventions, which left me with another group of friends I only get to see once or twice a year. It's been a good ride.

[Chaoswolf]

 

 

The D&D Cartoon series premiered in 1983, being the 31 years all of you keep pointing at.

Hmmm, I might have to amend my time frame a bit, then. It would seem that I've been playing for longer than 31 years, since I know I had played a handful of times before the cartoon came out.

[Hrothgar]

I was in 6th grade when I started playing, making it around 1978 or 79. Introduced to it by a friend and before I knew it I had the Red Box, AD&D PH, DMG, MM, Dragon magazines going back to issue #5 or 6 (full set from 55 to about 150), Polyhedron newszine, Boot Hill, Traveler, played a little Gamma World, went to local college conventions when I was about 15. Good times...good times...

 

I regret that I pretty much got out of playing games for 10 years or so. Now I have the chance to play games with my kids and have introduced them to The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, Keep on the Borderlands, Village of Hommlet and am now leading them through the Temple of Elemental Evil. Many thanks to Gygax and crew for inspiring a generation of people to seek out dragons to slay.