Hugin Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 Okay, a couple of things recently got my noggin to percolating so I'm asking. How old are all y'all?Ashnod is older than I expected, Kirby younger. I know Jager is a decrepit SOB, same with someone else here. But how about the rest of you? Let's cough up some chronological ages here people (we're gamers, emotionally we're all boned.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 29/01/82----21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asche Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 34 going on 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashnod Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by James 'Prodigy' Meehan: Ashnod is older than I expected, Kirby younger. I know Jager is a decrepit SOB, same with someone else here. But how about the rest of you? Let's cough up some chronological ages here people (we're gamers, emotionally we're all boned.) How old did you think I was, hon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 26 going on 27 in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphere Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 26, and therefore practically dead. But younger than Endeavor by a month or so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 Actually, when Endeavor started here, she was 18, then add +1 year for a years worth of time and a +25 years for that little trans-universal jaunt, and you get...44.Endeavor is 18 years OLDER than I.yet she still kept her youthful appearance. ^.^ I hope I age well. With my luck, I'll turn grey at 30, and get liverspots at 40! >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 I'm not sure if people want to divulge their birthdays, but if you fill out your birthday in your profile, the calendar link at the top will show your birthday as an event. My birthday is in October, but you'll have to go into the calendar to figure out how old I am (if you click on Chosen's birthday it will give you my age). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 Phew, I'm not the oldest here. 31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 Bwahahahahaha.....39, with a birthday in April, folks. Been playing something or other since I was ... 12, so longer than Sphere or Endeavor have been alive.Yes, they had RPing games way back then, dag-nabbit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted November 12, 2003 Author Share Posted November 12, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Ashnod: How old did you think I was, hon? About 24.Oh, someone pointed it out to me that I didn't mention my own ancient status. 33. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Good answer Prodigy. My old man taught me 1 thing and only 1 thing... women only age between 18 and 24. If a woman asks you how old you think she is, if you think they are under 18 them you think they are 18. And if you think they are older than 24 then say 24. You only have to guess ages between the 2, because any answer other than that will get you into trouble, regardless of what you say.That's my my pearl for all the fellas for 2day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Hey, we're all around 12 some odd billion years old anyways. Why split hairs on how many of those years we've been around and we knew we existed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphere Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 On a related note, what game got you all started in rpg's?For me it was Palladium's fantastic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangness. Waaay back before they stopped being cool.Ah Palladium, crap system but so many memories. Entirely responsible for my vast non-d10 dice collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 I started off playing the Classic Marvel Superheroes game. The one with the column shifts.But, my first LONG-TERM gaming experinece was with Shadowrun 2nd Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 While it doesn't answer everything, the Getting to Know Each Other thread will give you some info about the other people that frequent this forum. I started playing D&D when I was ~12. My first nights characters were R.J. Dio and H.P. Lovecraft (yeah I know, not very creative but I didn't know what the hell was going on). The game was horrible and we were all killed by dragons that were polymorphed into rats. Later that year I was fortunate enough to find some people that actually knew how to play.Marvel Superheroes was my game of choice to run, and despite, or maybe because of, its simplicity it is still my favorite supers game. I guess that has a lot to do with me being here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Whoops, went back and looked at my earlier stuff. I forgot the Empire of the Petal Throne game I started with. Pre-D&D stuff. Came out with Chainmail, I believe. 1976, jeesh. It was longer than I originally thought.Original Marvel .... loved it. System was nothing to crow about, but the ideas were fun, the campaigns were fun, and it was the first game I played as an "adult". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 MAGE was the first game I played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Williams Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 That would explain alot about your perspectives on PC's, power, and people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby1024 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Oddly, Trinity was my first real game, and then only one session. Then I heard about Aberrant, and got more involved with that.My first "longer than one session" game was (I believe) a BESM game, oddly enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 (Rides in on yellow vespa)BESM? ^.^ Someone say BESM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 NO! NO, it was a misprint, Endeavor. No one actually playes BigEyesSmallMouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centipede Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 I turn 31 just before the end of the year. I started playing when I was 13, a Swedish game pretty close to Runequest.Some years later I bought Marvel Super Heroes RPG but never succeeded in getting anyone interested in the game. I have to say though, that every time I flip through it it looks better and better. (I have never even seen a physical copy of BESM) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixen Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 My first game was a session or two of D&D when I was ten. The guy running it moved away.I was pretty much gameless, though I did pick up games - Marvel Super Heroes with the wacky karma point system, the TMNT RPG...I didn't seriously get into gaming as anything more than a lark until I got frustrated with Palladium, read in their little timeline that they claimed to be The First Universal System, after GURPS... and I thought I'd give The Second Universal System a shot.Couldn't be happier. Admittedly, GURPS is much like a cow - you can't digest the whole thing, you have to carve off what you want. Since then I've branched out, with non-WoD White Wolf, GURPS, and on occasion d20. (It had better be a stellar use of d20, though.) GURPS handles crunchy stuff, Storyteller handles non-crunchy stuff, and d20 is for those times I actually want players to show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixen Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Character age and player age are the same, BTW: 26. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boy Scout Posted November 16, 2003 Share Posted November 16, 2003 19. And Star Wars, by West End Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed Posted November 16, 2003 Share Posted November 16, 2003 I am 27. My first roleplaying game was GURPS. That was about freshman year in high school. Played a couple sessions of D&D 2e, didn't like it. I stuck with GURPS until a year and a half ago or when I started playing D&D 3e and Aberrant. So that's experience with 4 (3.5 depending on your views of 2e and 3e) different roleplaying systems. I'm sure there are some here that have played a good 10 or 20 different systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 My first RPG was D&D when I was about 12,13. The first one I bought was Traveller when it was little black books about a year or so later. I have fond memories of the magazine Imagine and remember when White Dwarf was a decent read. I've got and played ... Vampire, Mage, Traveller (several variations, like you couldn't guess), Cyberpunk, Paranoia, Trinity, Abberant, Warhammer FRP, Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and probably some others that I've forgot about. Never actually owned Shadowrun and Runequest but I have played them a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonewall Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Me = 37 in RL, Stonewall just celebrated his 81st birthday. Started playing with the D & D blue and red boxed set when I was 12. I run a home rules fantasy game incorporating elements of D & D and Palladium, with some story elements from the Sword of Truth and Magician Apprentice - Adept (Raymond Feist's series). Have run 1st and 2nd edition Ad&D, Palladium, Amber Diceless, Traveller, Marvel Superheroes, Champions, Call of Cthulhu 1st edition, Villians and Vigilantes, most of the WW stuff, and Feng Shui - probably others that I've forgotten, too. Stonewall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Oh,I am 22 now-.^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 As of today, make that 37. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Happy Belated Birthday, people!!!!Let me see ... Beyond the Supenatural, Pheonix Command, Battletech, Chill, Twilight2000 (the game was alot more relevant in the early 1980's), SuperWorld, Runequest first and second edition, Traveler (1st edition plus), Aftermath (never finished a session with that one), ICE, MERP, PsiWorld, as well as several systems already mentioned here.Exactly when did I have the time to meet a girl, much less get married and have two kids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackStar Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Hello friends, this is my first post, I think I'm the oldest here, 44, but I have a young heart, and BDW I started playing AD&D2, but the first game I gmed. was Call of Cthulhu, do you remember one of the book scenarios, Corbin's House? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Nope, but it is likely I ran through it at some time or another. Played a bunch of CoC, but never ran a "purist" game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackStar Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Neil Preston_______________________________________________Played a bunch of CoC, but never ran a "purist" game._______________________________________________ Well, it was the only "purist" game I make, but, you know, it was my first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 No problems there, BlackStar. How long have you been playing Role-Playing Games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackStar Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Hi, Jager, I don't remember exactly the year but I think a safe number would be 20 years more or less, at this time in my country we had only three games translated: D&D (the red box), Runequest and CoC, and it was very difficult (and expensive) to import U.S. games for the few English literate here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightfall Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 22, 23 this March. I've been roleplaying since 19, mostly online stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Runequest, eh?Player: "I roll for Divine Intervention!"GM: "You roll a 12! You succeed!"Player: "Aaaagggghhhhh!!! I only had a 13 POW. Now its a 1. What am I going to do?"Remember that kind of thing happening?BTW: You have a PM from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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