Am I getting to old to play?

Ultramyth · Post by **Ultramyth** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:54 pm

I'd think it more normal to have older players on here, especially with Ravenloft as the setting.

I started playing in the mid nineties, but didn't find D&D outside of the Ravenloft PC game until the turn of the century. I'm 25 now. I can't believe how young some of you started. How did you find a group that would take you?

I remember having my friend's nephew always bugging us to play. We never let him. He was about 8 I think and we were in our late teens...

Desertrising · Post by **Desertrising** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:01 pm

I started playing so young because my uncle got tired of me bugging him and gave me the 1st edition players handbook and told me to read it cover to cover and then write a book report on it. If I did that he said I could play. So I read my butt off and had a book report to him two days later.

He read the book report and then said "Okay kid you can play."

One of the happiest moments of my life LOL

However while I got to play with him it also meant I had to DM my little brother and a couple of our friends and that is how I wound up DMing most of my life.

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:25 pm

Miriel Ithildin wrote:Desdichado, you'll get used to that after a while

Wisdom comes with the age, they say.

In combination with my heart of a tiger, we may move some bigger hills, even small mountains.

*gackers like a chicken, goes to bed*

caper · Post by **caper** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:47 pm

I started playing in the 70's...I think I'll go have a nap now.

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:17 pm

Oy...I can see us all 40 years from now sitting in our rockers playing 10th edition Ravenloft 2320 with our holoemiter dice rollers agruing over who we think is the Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandson of the GC aluded to in Gaz XVIII and how that nice Strand boy needs to settle down and have some grandchildren...

Gonzoron of the FoS · Post by **Gonzoron of the FoS** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:55 pm

For me, it was recess at elementary school. I had heard about D&D but never seen it played until I saw a group of older kids playing on the playground. (only one or two years older, but it's amazing how much that matters back then.) I hugn around watching them until they finally asked if I wanted to play. My first character was a 1st level wizard who could only cast "sleep". (The rest of them were at least 10th level). I didn't last long. After that hazing, they let me make something more on par with the others.

Nathan of the FoS · Post by **Nathan of the FoS** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:50 pm

Ultramyth wrote: I can't believe how young some of you started. How did you find a group that would take you?

My dad taught me when I was six or seven. I opted to play a ranger because that was the only class I could halfway understand.

"Tanjer the Forest Fighter". Ah, those were the days.

It took me a while to figure out what "constitution" meant, too--since all I'd ever heard of was the U.S. Constitution, I thought it was a measure of how law-abiding the character was, and I was very puzzled that younger characters had better constitution scores than old ones.

Yattara · Post by **Yattara** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:42 pm

gonzoron wrote:I don't forsee myself stopping until they pry my D20's from my cold dead hands....

Pfftt...slacker!

Dice-lich all the way!

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:13 am

Nathan of the Frat wrote:
Ultramyth wrote: I can't believe how young some of you started. How did you find a group that would take you?

My dad taught me when I was six or seven. I opted to play a ranger because that was the only class I could halfway understand.

"Tanjer the Forest Fighter". Ah, those were the days.

It took me a while to figure out what "constitution" meant, too--since all I'd ever heard of was the U.S. Constitution, I thought it was a measure of how law-abiding the character was, and I was very puzzled that younger characters had better constitution scores than old ones.

I started DMing myself.

However, I didn't care for RL a long time - I didn't like the novels too much... funny that I think of buying them now, years later...

I played on several other D&D worlds, with certain encounters with Soth and Vecna being my only connection to the mists. (Well, we played the Cavitius series, but that campaign was crap.)

My passion for the mists was awakened anew, when my girlfriend and me were standing in a Spanish bookstore, me unable to decide which book I'd buy (Lords of Melnibone or Draconomicon - tough decission then) and my girlfriend (very ennerved in that moment) just grabbed into the bookshelf and hissed: "Aaaaah, just take this one, you f*** retard! This one, or let's go out!"

Me, very

since she's such a calm and sweet poison, ah, person usually, obeyed.

The book : RL 3e PG...

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:15 am

Desdichado wrote: I played on several other D&D worlds, with certain encounters with Soth and Vecna being my only connection to the mists. (Well, we played the Cavitius series, but that campaign was crap.)

Ah, and *Forgotten Terror*...

Ultramyth · Post by **Ultramyth** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:09 am

I sorta got railroaded into DMing... We used to play Robotech and Rifts before my group moved to fantasy games. We had a crapy DM. He was alright for the former, because watching a show meant that it was a lot easier to make missions because you had a good idea of what should go on....

But our level 1 characters always seemed to come up against several ancient dragons with 6000 MDC, only to be bailed out by high powered wizards and gods all the time because we were so about to die...

So I took up the reigns to DM, and started a fantasy campaign in my own game world (kind of a pseudo Phantasy Star world). Then, a few months before moving to Sweden, I really got into the idea of starting a Ravenloft campaign, and thankfully found a few willing players when I got here.

The only problem is, I know absolutely no other gamers in this god-forsaken country (it's not really that god-forsaken, just and expression), and I really don't want to play in Swedish anyway...

...hehehe... if there's any lurkers in the vestragotland region around here that play ravenloft and could use anotehr player, let me know! lol

tec-goblin · Post by **tec-goblin** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:56 am

I am 21,5 - I play since 17 and I am already working for the RPG industry part-time. If it goes one like that (and I somehow hope it does), by 37 I will be WotC chief director

Bloody Morgan · Post by **Bloody Morgan** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:02 am

Older brother needed playtesters syndrome

Once I hit seven myself and a bunch of my friends got him to actually teach us the rules and we started running games for ourselves.

Bloody Morgan

The Pickled Punk · Post by **The Pickled Punk** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:48 pm

I'm also 30, been playing for 16 years. In my previous group, I was the oldest, with most of the players being in high school or college. Right now I game with people around my age, with some of them much older.

Wiccy of the Fraternity · Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:36 pm

I was drawn into the Mists when I was about 15, I am 30 on the 29th of this month and still not search for a way out

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