I was betwen 16 to 17 years old, and my first session was interesting, i play a 12 lv Chaotic Evil Cleric of Talos in a group lost in one of the Ravenloft demais (never knew what was)

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Question of the day: How old were you when you first started playing D&D, and what was your first session like?

 
I started in 5e, shortly after joining DDB.  Since, y'know, I joined DDB specifically to set up a character to play in our first game.  Since I've been a DDB person for four years, nine months, and five days according to my profile, subtraction says I was in the vicinity of my early thirties when I started playing?  Seems about right.  Man.  Been longer than I thought.

Heh, our first session was the opening act of Lost Mines of Phandelver, doing the Goblin Cave.  We were playing with screenshots of maps uploaded to a Google Drive thing that everybody could share, with snippets of DDB default character portraits or random Internet art for tokens.  There was only so much space in the Drive, every time we moved to a new area of the cave the DM had to erase the last map and drag the new one in before distributing everything on it.  To this day, the phrase "this provokes a new map tile" is a running meme in our group.  That first Phandelver game and the couple sessions afterwards were the first and only time I've played a first-level character, but even with first-level weenies we rolled unreasonably well on that goblin cave run, got a LOT of stealth takedowns.  The DM said of the session afterwards "y'all ****in' Solid Snake'd my dungeon"; I don't know if we've ever been that competent again.  We sure as **** weren't when we hit the Redbrand hideout, that was a far more traditional Dungeon Cluster****.  Heh. 

It was a great time.  Great enough that I'm still doing this nearly five years later with no current plans to stop.  And also no current plans to play at first level again, Gawd first-level starts suck donkey hindus.

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 15, my friend invited me to play D&D, which I had only heard the name of hand had no clue what it actually was. When I first heard the name, I assumed it was some sort of LARP system.

Me, my friend, and their sibling all spent the next 3 hours making our characters with their dad. I remember having a great time as we figured out the game's system. I made a halfling wizard, friend made a gnome wizard, and their sibling made a dwarf paladin.

The next week, we gathered together to actually play the game. We played LMoP. The party was ambushed by the goblins, found Cragmaw Cave, and was nearly killed by the wolves. The goblin keeping guard at the bridge saw us, and we were swept out of the cave from the oncoming flow of water. Everyone took a short rest, and I believe that's where we ended the first session.

I only recently found out that, despite his absolute expertise at running the game, my friend's dad had never read through any of the rulebooks, and was just playing it by ear.

It was probably my favourite D&D game I've played.

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Question of the day: How old were you when you first started playing D&D, and what was your first session like?

A very good question!

Maybe 16 or 17 years old; was still in High School when first played 'Dungeons & Dragons' during the height of the television show and video game.

Played up to 5 - 10 minutes of the table-top game 'Dungeons & Dragons' and was completely confounded; this was because the dungeon master was not exactly a charismatic nor fun person.

The first (and last) impression of table-top 'Dungeons & Dragons' did not seem anything like the video game and television adaptations because the experience was less friendly.

I started D&D with 5e when I was 26. As a brand spanking new GM, I had like two or three sessions zeroes, cause nobody knows what we are doing, and we took our sweet time. The first actual play session was pretty fun, and it went horribly wrong for the party because I threw in a little too many goblins. I threw in a few villagers at the last minute to help the party out, and they barely survived. Good thing death saving throws was a thing.

As for the previous question, I have not really tried any other TTRPG besides D&D. We do play quite a few boardgames though, our group favorite being Betrayal at House on the Hill. We also got Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, but the city vibe does not feel as fun as the haunted house vibe, so we sometimes replace House on the Hill characters with Baldur's Gate characters. My personal favorite is Unicornus Knights, a co-op game where you have to help an NPC princess free her kingdom from the invading empire, but she constantly and stubbornly Leeroy Jenkins into the occupying forces, so you got to carefully manage the health of her army.

I was about 8 and I built a 8’5” halforc barbarian w/ 20 str I then proceeded to kick a child out my way. In my defense I thought it was a dwarf or something tough that could take a kick. I proceeded to roll a bat 20 on the unarmed strike, dealt 12 damage kicked the child in the head and killed it. The warlock then had to use ray of frost to freeze the super buff innkeeper who was the kids uncle. So yeah

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Can't remember exactly how old -- maybe 13 or 14, in the Red Box days

As I recall, in my first session I was the only player, so I was juggling like four characters doing some introductory module (Keep on the Borderlands, I think?)

I used a light spell from the cleric to fool a bunch of kobolds into thinking they were being visited by a wrathful god and giving me all their treasure, but then I kept asking for more after they were tapped out so I had to fight them anyway

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12. I was asked to play a cleric in my brother's game. I had NO idea how to play the game or what was going on. When I joined the game, we were outside of a room, trying to get the bad guys within to open the door. I decided saying "We have gold!" was a smart idea and it sort of was: the bandits opened the door!

And then I died. Ha!

(This would've been the early days of 1E.)

I know I was 9 when I started, mostly because I remember my dad handing me the red box, and it said for ages 10 and up. So I was feeling like hot shit for being a 9-year-old getting to play. 
I don’t know how the session went, it was 40 years ago, but I guess I must have had fun, because here I still am. Pretty sure I DM’d, mostly because I had the books and the dice. 
The dice in those sets, btw, had numbers etched into the faces, but were hard to read, so the box came with a crayon you’d rub across each side. The wax would stick in the numbers, and that gave you the contrast needed to see them.

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 Uh... guesstimate, that must have been around '94... so, early teens. Cannot remember the first session... a lot of getting the rules wrong... 😀

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 It was about 6 years ago, so I would've been 24. We started with Lost Mines of Phandelver, and in the first goblin attack I took down two enemies while our rogue (another first time player) immediately got himself knocked out. It was very fun and I learned a lot about the mechanics that day to say the least.

It was right around my birthday, so I was either 18 or 19 in 2014. Right on time too as it was probably the main reason I recovered from severe depression that started that year.

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The dice in those sets, btw, had numbers etched into the faces, but were hard to read, so the box came with a crayon you’d rub across each side. The wax would stick in the numbers, and that gave you the contrast needed to see them.

Ha! Those DIY dice were so cheap. The plastic was soft enough that the corners got rounded really quickly if you rolled them a lot

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Question of the day: How old were you when you first started playing D&D, and what was your first session like?

I was 7, if I remember correctly. It was nothing too out of the ordinary- I played Quarion Meliamne (hence the username), a simple Wood Elf Ranger. Party of three I think, there was a cleric but I can't remember anything besides that. A basic bounty on some skeletons launched us into the game, and there were more bounties after that. Due to a mishearing, the name we set up for our party with the local government was The Sparkling Unicorns. The campaign ended a few sessions after level 3, so I only got to play with my snake friend for a bit, but I remember distinctly that I tried my damned hardest to get my snake to become friends with another player's bear for some awesome combo potential (which didn't work so well).

God, that was so much fun.

I forget when exactly it was, but it was early on in 4e so I was either in my late teens or early 20's.  I forget what the first session was like (I want to say I dropped into a 1-shot for Dark Sun) but the first game I remember was with a group of college friends (two of whom are among my current players) and we did quite well despite a number of questionable decisions made.  Our DM (one of my said players) tried basing his campaign off one of the Baldur's Gate games, but we kinda went a bit more off-rail than he was prepared for.😂

Red box, early 1984.  

I was 11, and we gathered in a friends basement to play.  

Our party of three elves ravaged the tribes in the Caves of Chaos. 

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 I was 12, in 1985. I was playing with the Mentzer Red Box set. I played my first session by myself following the pre-made adventure in the book for the Dungeon Master. I still have that original character sheet, and I've played every edition since. I lived through the waning years of the Satanic Panic where most adults still didn't understand what the game was, and thought it was "evil". In highschool we had to hide to play because we weren't allowed to have an official D&D club without a teacher to sponsor us, and no teacher wanted to because they might get in trouble from parents or the administration.

This is a thread for things other than... that. I can't speak for Spostra, who started the thread, but if you're choosing to plaster that avatar all over the place, I'd rather not see it here thanks

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This is a thread for things other than... that. I can't speak for Spostra, who started the thread, but if you're choosing to plaster that avatar all over the place, I'd rather not see it here thanks

To whom are you referring?

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I remember distinctly that I tried my damned hardest to get my snake to become friends with another player's bear for some awesome combo potential (which didn't work so well).

God, that was so much fun.

I'm trying to picture this in my head... would the snake have been riding the bear? Would the snake have wrapped itself around the bear's paw when it swiped at something, like a biker wielding a chain?