What Is The First Version of D&D That You Played?

[spin]

What Is The First Version of D&D That You Played? You may choose up to 2 answers to help explain a hybird start.

[spin]

I started with OD&D 3rd print and no supplements.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

I started with a 4th print (my friends) and made a trip from Athens to Columbus and snagged a 5th print. Added Greyhawk later on.

[Death Even XIII]

I am not sure which print, but OD&D with hobbits in the text.

[Red Virtuoso]

My first OD&D had halflings substituted for hobbits, it was only later I found out it is really hobbits.

[Gar Guz]

It had hobbits and balrogs.

[mao]

77 0r 78, ODnD.

[Death Even XIII]

Feb 10, 2021 6:32:52 GMT -5 mao said:

77 0r 78, ODnD.

Hobbits or halflings?

[mao]

Don't remember

[karaunios]

2e, I ran the game. Although by the time I started 4e was around. I quickly tried Mentzer's Basic and Expert and then OD&D without supplements, my favourite system.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Feb 11, 2021 2:48:46 GMT -5 karaunios said:

2e, I ran the game. Although by the time I started 4e was around. I quickly tried Mentzer's Basic and Expert and then OD&D without supplements, my favourite system.

OD&D without supplements is my favorite, I like running it that way, especially for new to OD&D players. But then I also like adding to it once the players get experience at it. I am fond of Paladins and Rangers so, I house rule them in.


But I think very, very few people run OD&D without the supplements, so that makes us the smallest niche of all.

[Wrath]

It had hobbits, ents and balrogs, it might have been a 3rd print, but not really sure.

[River Man]

I would guess that it is the 5th print, white box with hobbits.

[Fantasy King]

A 6th print is what I started with. I eventually found out that it is hobbit, not halflings; ents, not treants; and balrogs, not balor.

[karaunios]

Feb 13, 2021 7:07:15 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

Feb 11, 2021 2:48:46 GMT -5 karaunios said:

2e, I ran the game. Although by the time I started 4e was around. I quickly tried Mentzer's Basic and Expert and then OD&D without supplements, my favourite system.

OD&D without supplements is my favorite, I like running it that way, especially for new to OD&D players. But then I also like adding to it once the players get experience at it. I am fond of Paladins and Rangers so, I house rule them in.


But I think very, very few people run OD&D without the supplements, so that makes us the smallest niche of all.

I use the lbbs as a reference but wing most of it. Concerning the rules, I change and add much but always keep it simple. Rulings ad hoc always take precedence.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Feb 20, 2021 2:02:05 GMT -5 karaunios said:

Feb 13, 2021 7:07:15 GMT -5 The Perilous Dreamer said:

OD&D without supplements is my favorite, I like running it that way, especially for new to OD&D players. But then I also like adding to it once the players get experience at it. I am fond of Paladins and Rangers so, I house rule them in.


But I think very, very few people run OD&D without the supplements, so that makes us the smallest niche of all.

I use the lbbs as a reference but wing most of it. Concerning the rules, I change and add much but always keep it simple. Rulings ad hoc always take precedence.

I think that is a very good way to go and IMO the most fun. 

[youngbuck]

I have never yet played the original D&D, but I got interested in it and am checking it out. I have the pdfs that are for sale.

[Hexenritter Verlag]

1e AD&D

[Ibizan Zamway]

Not sure what printing, but as noted it had hobbits, ents and balrogs.

[clooney]

The first game I played in used hobbits, ents and balrogs.

[Q. F o s t e r]

One of the first five.

[Snuffy Smith]

One of the first five prints, not sure what printing the ref had.

[nobody]

I think it was a 5th print, although it might have been a 4th print not sure really.

[Kujik]

I started with a 2nd print I think, might have been a 3rd print.

[The Man From Coventry]

it was a first or second print, not sure. It was so wore out, that I had to make a copy of the tattered books.

[Morose]

OD&D first print

[Bartholmew Quarrels]

My first copy was a second print.

[Warrior Twin One]

First version was momma's 5th print.

[Warrior Twin Two]

Sept 14, 2022 16:35:00 GMT -5 Warrior Twin One said:

First version was momma's 5th print.

Same here.