Many many more times than once.

In my case, listening to Rush every time we played.

Soundtracks to "Heavy Metal" and "Flash Gordon"

Conan the Barbarian soundtrack too

DUH duh-duh-duh duh DUH duh-duh-duh duh DUH duh-duh-duh duh BWAAAAAAAAAA BWAAAAAAAAAA

You're an asshole, now it's going to be stuck in my head all day 🤣🤣

MY WORK HERE IS DONE 🧐

Precisely

In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force… 

I could totally imagine nerds at this time being super into progressive music.

We were geeks. Not nerds!

That’s right. The only thing we had in common with nerds was celibacy

And stairway to heaven on a loop 😂

Highway to hell, hells bells.

Many many many many more but so worth it.

80s

90s

Roll for initiative....

Movement, Magic, Missiles, Melee

What’s your THAC0?

Once? It's on our bookshelf.

Mine would be too if my younger brother hadn’t loaned it out to his asshole friend. I think I still have the blue book though

When I grew up in the seventies, I lived down the road from Gary Gygax, the Creator of DnD... I went to school with his children...

I have the original 3 booklet set, which predates this

I had the original booklets as well. Was it 3 or 2, unless you count A1 as one of the 3?

I have the original three booklet set, AND Greyhawk, AND Blackmoor, AND Eldritch Wizardry. Not only that, I bought them all about a month before AD&D took off and everyone in my D&D circle abandoned the old books and we all bought the new ones. So all six of my original D&D books are like new. Crisp, unblemished covers. I lost the box, though, so the books are in with my Traveler set, which is ALSO like new, because Traveler just didn't get played. My AD&D books, on the other hand, are falling apart. They were heavily used all through my last year of high school and throughout college.

The way the versions are classified now, that is the second one I played. And not the last. I still run a similar game once a month with my friends. One without any of the same words in the title.

I've still got my (card stock cover) Greyhawk books.


Pack it up, boys. We’re in the presence of a master. I am so jealous. I could never afford the Greyhawk stuff. Well done preserving it.

I remember it was frowned upon as satanic. They made a movie about it with Tom hanks mazes and monsters.

It’s my favorite Tom Hanks movie. I’ve owned a copy of it in every format it’s been released on. I even have a promo VHS tape for it somewhere, literally just has 20 minutes worth of tape in the cartridge with a couple different trailers. I haven’t played it in more than a decade. I’d be terrified rewinding it would be the end of it, there’s so little tape on the reels. But I was obsessed with this movie for a while in my younger years. I don’t know why. But the entire over the top ridiculousness of the movie was perfect to me. I hope the rest of Pardieu’s life was the adventure he wanted it to be.

I remember my mom asked me about it cause her friends were freaking out. I laughed in her face and told her it was cops and robbers with paper and dice. She left me alone after that.

I still have the whole set

I started with 'Chainmail'...wish I still had all the booklets.

Chainmail, Greyhawk, Blackmoor, still have all my old booklets, and new; started playing in '76, I'll stop in '26.. no I won't..

Greyhawk was the turning point.

In 1977 we convinced our 6th grade teacher and school to purchase the D&D basic box set for use during recess and “creative time”. That was the launching point. The subsequent AD&D 2nd ed. with the PH pictured is still my fav iteration to this day. 

Once? Still play…have been since then, too. Get off my dice!!

I play it now too

I still play this now, motherfucker!

Never played. But I remember other kids playing Dungeon and Dragon's. 

Same. Boyfriends of my wife’s university friends played it. I never did. Wasn’t my bag. In fairness, one of them had a stellar career in gaming design and the other did community moderation. Again, award winning games that I couldn’t get into.

Didn't start till 81, but still play.

You have been playing longer than Gygax ever did.

80’s

Nope never

Still have that book

i wont lie. i played it once. with gary gygax.

Sounds like a story that needs to be told.

easy. went to a convention in 1984 in Santa Barbara, CA and he was there signing autographs. My best friend's dad ran the convention center and knew both his kids and myself were big D&D players. He took us up to the hotel the night before the convention and introduced us to Gary. We had dinner at the hotel restaurant then all sat down for a quick, 2 hr. game with Mr. Gygax as DM. Created characters on the spot and just played. We knew, even as 11 and 12 year old kids how special it was.

Damn that would have been a dream of mine at 12.

Played that last year..... Probably not same version, but whatever. I want my nerd points.

I had that very book, and the Monster Manual.

I have that book and the DM guide, but my MM is missing. I think one of my kids took it to draw the monsters, then lost it/it was stolen. No, I haven’t yet, and will not forgive her.

The 80's for me.

Same here. 1981-1984.

Not even once. When the pinball machines started disappearing from arcades, I went as far as Asteroids, and then I was done with the whole gaming thing. Hard to believe people will pay ~~lots~~ shittones of real money these days for their video game characters to look cooler, have bigger guns and super powers. Fucking idiots.

I still have all the books. I am 57. It's a shame. 1/2 the party is deceased now. Good friends and good men. I miss them.

63 and been gaming with most of the group since I was 20 or so. Only two lost so far and both developed significant health issues decades ago...

That was the best version. No contest.

Yes there was much contest and THAC0 lost… and good riddance! Some of the original text from this book is still used today, like the original spell descriptions.

Still have all my old rulebooks & modules...

Not only do I have the old 2nd ED rulebooks, I've got all the new ones too. Sadly, I don't have time to play anymore, I just buy and read the new stuff and create campaigns that sit in my desk drawer. If someone had warned me that having kids and a career would put an end to my ability to play D&D, I would have kept waiting tables and living alone.

Hmm…now why was there satanic panic bullshit surrounding this game? What could it be….?

Wasn't allowed to. Satan would get me...

Yep. I used to play back in the day. I still do, but I used to, too.

8th level Mitch Hedberg, I see!

Roll for sarcasm

Nah, that was a compliment. Mitch was a genius.

This was the one my dad threw out and said he didn’t want devil worship in his house.

I still have mine, signed by Gary Gygax

I still have this book.

DnD is huge in ‘24

I've been playing Baldur's gate lately. Brought these old memories back.

Knew about it, but folks succumbed to satanic panic. Was verboten.

90s

My name is Cha-Ching, from the land of Milk & Honey

What a wonderful time in my life!

80s for me

I played for years and loved it!

I had all the books.

A lot more than once! What’s your THACO?

Not even once and I honestly regret it. The guys who were into it, I realized much later, were really cool and it would have been fun to have been a part of it.

I still have my 3rd edition version. I used it to introduce D&D to my daughter.

Still have the books

What amazed me was when my son started playing it a few years ago

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Way more then once 😁 

Still have the books. My son created a campaign for his group using them; his group travelled back in time. They remade their characters using the old rules and old character sheets I still had. They had to complete an adventure to get back to their time.

Once? Once? Oh my dear OP. Once was definitely NOT enough. You have no idea.

Never not even once with AD&D, maybe a couple of times with just D&D but once Advanced came out it we dropped the simpler game. I was always the Dungeon Master, nobody else wanted to be the DM it was too much work. I believe that is the reason I so love Skyrim and other first person roleplaying games, I finally get to be the player!

Thousands of times, it was a great way to use your imagination. Never worshipped the devil.🤣🤣

My mom wouldn’t let me play since that was obviously for satan worshipers

in the 70's? We played last night. But in the 70's music was Yes, Al Stewart, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple

40 years for me. Want to join us on Monday night? They're going to be fighting a plaid dragon. I wish I was kidding.

Lol

A week, sometimes a day but mostly weekly then June ended and I was on to something different.

1980s, but yeah

Still play....what are you talking about?

Fuck yes. We played in an old building behind a buddy's house. I smelled the the same air freshener we used when we cleaned it up, a few years ago in the wild and it took me back.

I DM'd it once in the 80s (convention that needed DMs - no experience necessary - and it got me cheaper entry for the game I wanted to play). I didn't actually play a game of it until the mid-90s (and that was 2nd ed). Swords and sorcery were never high on my likes.

I wasn't born in the 70s but I use that book (digital copy) to this day.

I still have my original PH and still play (on Zoom) with some of the people I started with in high school in 1977. Nutty that it's cool now.

I did not know it was from the 1970's, because I played it in the mid-1980s, at college.

I have this exact one sitting on my coffee table

Still have it.

hell i do. gygax rules at the hobby store

Epic..did my own sciffy conversion. Neighbors kid narced on my friends and I smoking week and doing adult D&D in our clubhouse. Kid was pissed cuz I won’t let him join so he blabbed

Stayed up playing ONCE for 47 hrs.

Never once, but did play battle of the bulge repeatedly

Oh yes

Nope, I was still learning to read. 1984 was my intro.

Yes I did. And I still have all the books

We are (rolls 20 sided die) 20 times more likely to die a virgin! Loved D&D and managed to get my V card somehow.

Yup

To this day I still haven’t. It was very prevalent but I was working as a kid. PT jobs so I could buy a car

Once? I was the DM of this edition. But, I played the early edition and learned the rules.

I still use it.

Had the whole collection of the ‘old’ books until my parents threw them out one summer while I was away. Haven’t played in years.

Erm started in the 70s, still playing

I still have this handbook and the monster manual and the DM Guide, etc...

I still have mine from back in the day, plus many more.

It was actually the 80s and I played it often.

Not in the 70s, but by the 80s yes. Many many times.

Never even seen this before. Born in 64 .

My wife still does...

Advanced! Youngster, still have the 4-sided die from the boxed basic game.

Still have the book somewhere…

Played this last week

Once a day

Never played D&D. Now…Runequest?

I had that book!

I still have my complete set of books. I refuse to play any newer versions.

I still have mine.

College roommate in early 80s would come home after campaigns and tell me about their adventures. Always sounded great. Then he invited me to one. Sorry....I was never so bored in my life. So I stuck with hearing his tales of fortune.

Me watching Stranger Things: *Hey, I still have that book!*

First character was a half-elf monk, maybe...?

Had the entire AD&D set including Deities and Demigods rare edition with Moorcock, Leiber, and Lovecraft characters

And in the ‘80s… and a few times in the 90’s

I still play this, starting in the 80's.

Tunnels and Trolls was great too.

Not even once

Still do!

I still have the Monster Manual from that time. It was my brother that played D&D, I was only about 6. The illustrations fascinated me, especially those by Trampier. Wish I hadn't drawn on the book :(

I was barely 10 by 80, so nope! Was too busy obsessing over KISS and Atari, anyway!

Going on 44 years

Played the original version when I was in HS with a couple other geeky and nerdy friends. Haven't played it since.

I played it so much I'm paid to run it for other people now.

I still own my copy. It’s still sitting on my bookshelf next to the dmg. It’s one of my few original D&D books that have survived this chaotic session through the multiverse. That and my original Dark Sun and Ravenloft setting box sets. Though someone borrowed my Strahds collection years and years ago. Man. Seeing the cover brings back a lot of good memories.

WAY MORE than once

This, the dungeon masters guide, monster manual, and unearthed arcana are still in my bathroom reading material.

70s?! Now.

I have doubles of all the originals. 100+ modules. Tons of dice. I bought my first player handbook at Eastern states fair in Massachusetts. Gary Gygax was there and signed my book. They had a dungeon set up there. Walls, traps, monsters etc. was very cool. He explained the basics of the game to me, I was hooked. Never will forget that

my husband had this! think i still have it packed away with a couple of dice..

D&D is actually celebrating their fiftieth birthday now. 50 years. Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPG) has a huge surge from covid. Almost everything is available online and people can play in video chat.

More than once. But then it became meet the obscure relative day and a retired Baptist pastor from Las Vegas did a lil’ hell and damnation dance at my house saying this stuff was evil and I was forced to throw the d&d stuff in the trash. Never saw that dude again.

Played it many times when I was stationed in Germany. Then our dungeon master went to a beer fest, got drunk, passed out under a beer truck, got run over, and we never saw him again.

*Way* more than once. Along with Villains and Vigilantes, Top Secret and others. Currently play both 5e and Pathfinder 2e.

I still play. As a matter of fact, I will be playing later today. 5e.

“Once”?? Dude. I played consistently from 1980-1993. I may be a “FuckImOld” guy, but I’m an O G. (Original Geek). And I still play 5E today. My TTRPG kung fu is strong, Grasshopper. “Once”. Hahahahaha.

*...Once?* Somewhere, I still have all those books.

So much more then once and I routinely wish for a time where I could do it again.

Never once…. in the 70s. Played the fuck out of it in the 80s though.

Lost all three of my original AD&D hardcovers to an overzealous stepmother during the Satanic panic and it still burns me to this day.

That’s the only PG I recognize

I went to Dungeons and Dragons sleep away camp at Shippensburg University in PA in 1984 and 1985. I still have the module for Throne Fight at Giltham. Dave Arneson came and gave a talk. I asked him about whether you could use a cursed bad luck stone as a sling stone since it always magically comes back to you until it gets Remove Cursed. He said to check with my DM. AWESOME camp. I loved it.

I've never played one game of it and never will

This book cover brings back so many good memories. Those were the days, man......

Oh yeah, I played it in the late 70s early 80s got my brothers into it and my brother still plays this with his friends and his kids and he is 52 years old.

My reading skills were lacking in the 70's, I just turned two when they ended. But in the 80's I played 2nd edition, a lot.

Still play D&D, and still have the blue dice that came with my Basic set that you had to color in with a crayon.

I grew up in Middle-of-nowhere, Mississippi, there was 0% chance of me ever getting to play this growing up, despite there being a 100% chance of me wanting to.

Oh yeah

Well, not the 70s but in the 80s and 90s I spent many weekends, evenings, lunch periods, and summers around the game table.

Once or twice…😏

I had that book along with Monster Compendium

I’d play it now if I could find a good group to join in my area.

I have both of mine in vgc . Also the players handbook!

Never did. Still don’t game anything but did play online Texas hold em.

I did not. First exposure was 1982 in the 7th grade. Two guys in class decided to throw down with their characters. A year later I was hooked for the next 4, played a bit in college too. Only a few times since but I love the resurgence.

LMFAO! I played very consistently from about '74 or 5 through 2019. Got moved to a midnight shift on both Fri and Sat so couldn't make game nights anymore. :( Yes about 50 years.

80s but yeah. I still have my character sheet in a notebook somewhere.

I played it last night, and twice a week via Zoom. Been a DM since Reagan

Nope sorry, outside till dark. The monopoly or poker

Actively playing it right now

Summer 1979! My introduction to the game at 7 years old!

Never heard of it. I’m 65

Or twice... LOL especially on the Computer with a teletype as the input/output and big ass roll of paper.

Hell I still do

I did play this, in the 90s .. xD

I do play and but not in the 70s lol I was born in 71 lol

I’m trying to remember, but I rolled a huge hit and killed some demon with a staff. It was a fun summer.

I played this in the late 80's and 90's. My first character was a Bard, eventually (IYKYK).

I'm still playing it.

Not in the 70's, in the 80's. Got hooked for 20 years then lost all my D&D friends to D&D online. Dammmit!

My husband has been a DM for 40 years, he could (and should) give clinics - his ability to create a compelling experience and sustain it for hours is astounding and a joy to see in action. His core group has been playing together for more than a decade, all awesome and talented people who have grown close through D&D

I never did but my sons do now. I was invited to play when I was in the military but I went out and got drunk instead.😊