Back in the 80's I had the Red and Blue boxes for D&D. I played a few games with cousins but never found others that wanted to play in a regular campaign. Then the satanic panic stuck and I was barred from playing D&D. So being the rule lawyer that I am, in high school, I played TSR's Marvel Super Heroes or GURPS and other Steve Jackson products but never, ever D&D.
In later years I devoured the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels. I played the gold box games ( that was just me and the computer right not really playing D&D).
Fast forward 30ish years.
I was watching the Honest Trailers Commentary for Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. Joe and Spencer made a big deal about this Matthew Mercer guy that was doing voice work for Spiderman Noir. They mentioned Critical Role and I thought "never heard of it". Being out of work I was able to binge the first campaign. At the beginning of campaign two, there were all these advertisements for something called D&D Beyond.
Finally, I said, "I'm a grownup I don't need to be beholden to a promise I made before I was old enough to vote".
I bought a paper PHB, the digital sourcebooks here at DDB, and dug the red and blue dice out from the back of my childhood closet. I figured I would sign up at my local game store and find a game. This was in November of 2019.
Then the world shutdown. Seriously, it is not my fault. No demons were summoned.
I contacted the cousin from years before and now I play in three campaigns using DDB, Roll20, and Beyond20.
If you are a returning player what was your catalyst? Mine was apparently Joe Starr.
TLDR: Thanks Joe and say hey to Spencer and Dan if you see them.
I came back to D&D due to a co-worker who was playing D&D with friends from all over the world, using Zoom and such. He told great stories of what they were up to. I expressed that I wished I could play but had no one to play with. He started up a campaign and put several of us in it who had no one to play with - he was to be the DM. Then life intervened and he had to pull out, but by then we were all invested so I offered to take over as DM. It has been a year... still going.
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WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
Back in the 80's I had the Red and Blue boxes for D&D. I played a few games with cousins but never found others that wanted to play in a regular campaign. Then the satanic panic stuck and I was barred from playing D&D. So being the rule lawyer that I am, in high school, I played TSR's Marvel Super Heroes or GURPS and other Steve Jackson products but never, ever D&D.
In later years I devoured the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels. I played the gold box games ( that was just me and the computer right not really playing D&D).
Fast forward 30ish years.
I was watching the Honest Trailers Commentary for Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. Joe and Spencer made a big deal about this Matthew Mercer guy that was doing voice work for Spiderman Noir. They mentioned Critical Role and I thought "never heard of it". Being out of work I was able to binge the first campaign. At the beginning of campaign two, there were all these advertisements for something called D&D Beyond.
Finally, I said, "I'm a grownup I don't need to be beholden to a promise I made before I was old enough to vote".
I bought a paper PHB, the digital sourcebooks here at DDB, and dug the red and blue dice out from the back of my childhood closet. I figured I would sign up at my local game store and find a game. This was in November of 2019.
Then the world shutdown. Seriously, it is not my fault. No demons were summoned.
I contacted the cousin from years before and now I play in three campaigns using DDB, Roll20, and Beyond20.
If you are a returning player what was your catalyst? Mine was apparently Joe Starr.
TLDR: Thanks Joe and say hey to Spencer and Dan if you see them.
I just saw this and it makes me so happy! Welcome to it!
I used to play AD&D in the late 80's-early 90's. I stopped when the group all went to college in different parts of the country. Fast forward a couple of decades and a friend of mine told me about the DnD Next playtest in 2012, I think? I joined him and a few friends to try it out and have been riding the 5e train ever since.
I started playing with the basic set in 1978, actually before AD&D, which came out for Christmas that year. I dove in for a couple of decades and then resurfaced. I had a great group in college (the story for I6 Ravenloft is a classic), Played a little 2nd, played a few weeks for 3rd but one player's munchkinism 'forced' the DM to escalate as well, and us regular players were destroyed in the arms race. I got back in for 4E, one of the FLGS here I was their Steve Jackson Games rep, one of the Men-in-Black, and D&D Encounters showed up, the 2nd sessions the DM was a no show, so I said, I don't know the rules, but if you can give me a minute I'll glance at the adventure and promise we'll at least have fun! 12-14 seasons later moves and life put a stop to that. Had a long hiatus for personal reasons, but I'm back in college (at 53!) and thought, I heard there was a large Online D&D presence, and decided to Just Do It! PAX Online and D&D Celebration were my intros to 5E, basically, a 10 days Con, and I haven't looked back since, and don't expect to ever stop playing again.
I cam back to D&D because my daughter saw the books on a shelf and asked me to show here how to play. So I can a one shot adventure with each of us playing a character. Next thing she asked me to run a game for her birthday with a few of her friends.
I now run an 1) 18 month long , weekly campaign, 2) a weekly campaign for my online EveQuest guildies most weeks and 3) another campaign about once a month for some of my daughters friends.
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Back in the 80's I had the Red and Blue boxes for D&D. I played a few games with cousins but never found others that wanted to play in a regular campaign. Then the satanic panic stuck and I was barred from playing D&D. So being the rule lawyer that I am, in high school, I played TSR's Marvel Super Heroes or GURPS and other Steve Jackson products but never, ever D&D.
In later years I devoured the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels. I played the gold box games ( that was just me and the computer right not really playing D&D).
Fast forward 30ish years.
I was watching the Honest Trailers Commentary for Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse. Joe and Spencer made a big deal about this Matthew Mercer guy that was doing voice work for Spiderman Noir. They mentioned Critical Role and I thought "never heard of it". Being out of work I was able to binge the first campaign. At the beginning of campaign two, there were all these advertisements for something called D&D Beyond.
Finally, I said, "I'm a grownup I don't need to be beholden to a promise I made before I was old enough to vote".
I bought a paper PHB, the digital sourcebooks here at DDB, and dug the red and blue dice out from the back of my childhood closet. I figured I would sign up at my local game store and find a game. This was in November of 2019.
Then the world shutdown. Seriously, it is not my fault. No demons were summoned.
I contacted the cousin from years before and now I play in three campaigns using DDB, Roll20, and Beyond20.
If you are a returning player what was your catalyst? Mine was apparently Joe Starr.
TLDR: Thanks Joe and say hey to Spencer and Dan if you see them.
I came back to D&D due to a co-worker who was playing D&D with friends from all over the world, using Zoom and such. He told great stories of what they were up to. I expressed that I wished I could play but had no one to play with. He started up a campaign and put several of us in it who had no one to play with - he was to be the DM. Then life intervened and he had to pull out, but by then we were all invested so I offered to take over as DM. It has been a year... still going.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
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D&D StaffI just saw this and it makes me so happy! Welcome to it!
I used to play AD&D in the late 80's-early 90's. I stopped when the group all went to college in different parts of the country. Fast forward a couple of decades and a friend of mine told me about the DnD Next playtest in 2012, I think? I joined him and a few friends to try it out and have been riding the 5e train ever since.
I started playing with the basic set in 1978, actually before AD&D, which came out for Christmas that year. I dove in for a couple of decades and then resurfaced. I had a great group in college (the story for I6 Ravenloft is a classic), Played a little 2nd, played a few weeks for 3rd but one player's munchkinism 'forced' the DM to escalate as well, and us regular players were destroyed in the arms race. I got back in for 4E, one of the FLGS here I was their Steve Jackson Games rep, one of the Men-in-Black, and D&D Encounters showed up, the 2nd sessions the DM was a no show, so I said, I don't know the rules, but if you can give me a minute I'll glance at the adventure and promise we'll at least have fun! 12-14 seasons later moves and life put a stop to that. Had a long hiatus for personal reasons, but I'm back in college (at 53!) and thought, I heard there was a large Online D&D presence, and decided to Just Do It! PAX Online and D&D Celebration were my intros to 5E, basically, a 10 days Con, and I haven't looked back since, and don't expect to ever stop playing again.
Thanks for bringing back some good memories!
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I cam back to D&D because my daughter saw the books on a shelf and asked me to show here how to play. So I can a one shot adventure with each of us playing a character. Next thing she asked me to run a game for her birthday with a few of her friends.
I now run an 1) 18 month long , weekly campaign, 2) a weekly campaign for my online EveQuest guildies most weeks and 3) another campaign about once a month for some of my daughters friends.