had the red and blue books when I started playing and all of this is true lol
2026-09-24 20:57:02
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that pirate girl :
This resonates soooo much... been playing since 1978!!
2026-08-29 13:47:21
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ALACSANDAR :
yeah, players these days are just due rollers. everything comes out of a box or a book. I started in the red Basic book. I stopped upgrading when Gary Gygax said it'd changed enough. 2E. I make my worlds. I make my civilizations. I make my gods. leave your tieflings and artificers in candy land. this is for real role players who are willing to commit to years to complete a campaign if they survive that long. roll your save verse petrification/polymorph. we'll see you in the next iteration as a cautionary tale fo those who wanna make a passive perception check
2026-09-22 01:34:16
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VermonsterGirl66 :
Exactly, there's no fun if you stick to just rules and rollin' dice. I want the DM to be a legit Story Teller. I want to know the weather, the humidity, the sounds. Don't have us all traipsing across the Serengeti, and then immediately step into a bog. There's got to be clues that the view is changing, that there's a vague musty petrichor smell in the air, etc. D&D is a schlog without a great DM.
2026-09-21 17:18:57
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Jorhe :
Yes we role played!
2026-09-21 15:17:11
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mosrathaghoul :
He’s wearing a hoodie with the hood up. He’s seen things. THAC0!
2026-08-29 09:19:34
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LaviaLavere :
I started with AD&D. It was definitely different.
2026-09-18 13:35:27
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~Protowolf~ :
i started on AD&D we had sticks and a rock, and we had to share the rock.
2026-08-29 08:48:20
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JollyJ :
My type of D&D
2026-08-29 08:41:05
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Gary Grant :
I was there….. 1983. “Roll up a new character….” Still keeps me up at night. 🤣
2026-09-13 12:44:15
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Sean Timmons :
A 10ft stick and caution!! Man, that takes me back.
2026-08-29 16:53:02
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Deslokian :
This is me, started in ‘79 on A&D and Basic. There was a lot of death back in the day. Yes Survival IE.. XP and loot. First adventures were in the dungeons under Castle Greyhawk and of course the OG Keep on the Borderlands.
2026-08-31 02:22:34
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Christophoros :
"What's your character's name?"
"It doesn't matter."
How true that was and if ... IF ... you got high enough to feel it warranted a name, it probably died the next session, and that was an honor in and of itself.
2026-08-31 05:16:05
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Cuppa Joe :
Played for many years before I even heard of rolling for any interaction.
2026-08-30 00:10:16
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Matthew Christopher :
I wish that the flavor of dungeons and dragons original was in the game now.
2026-09-10 03:40:05
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aloneinthedork :
Anyone have any experience /w players from different editions/systems?
2026-08-29 05:23:57
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Matthew B :
MAYBE loot!
2026-08-29 14:08:30
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Andrea *writer* :
We had ONE set of books shared between about a dozen people, notebooks served as character sheets, all hand written too and we used other game pieces or whatever we could find to "build" our boards and yeah if you died, the DM tore the character sheets in half. It was brutal and we loved every minute!!!!
2026-08-31 15:27:10
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Howlin’ Scotsman :
So true! Death was death.
2026-08-29 14:21:24
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CRay :
wizard one shot wonder at 1 ro 4 hit lts. miss the good old days. i feel played out here are they are u players. played when it first came out
2026-08-30 00:06:19
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Magekind :
I offer players bonuses for good RP, but my start in 3e means I haven't seen a system without social skills.
2026-08-29 08:01:44
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joe :
This. All of it.
2026-09-02 19:42:22
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Zazsi Buki :
It's a Role Playing Game not a Roll Playing Game. C'mon! [Big LOL]
2026-09-13 13:07:26
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Gamer Mama :
It definitely was a different time. We suffered and yet went back to the table week after week.
2026-08-31 12:52:47
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ebacon :
You know they are OG when they show up with 3 characters for the first session
2026-09-10 22:25:21
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