[I was going to deliberately misspell the title as 'noisey' but thought better of it]

How old are we all and how many years have we all been gaming?

... Nearly 40 years old here and gaming since I was about 9. Started with Tunnels & Trolls:





Favourite RPGs:

1) Pendragon
2) Amber
3) The One Ring

Yep, it *is* that good in my opinion.

So, come on, spill the beans gents (and ladies)!

Being that I am 30, I was only recently introduced into the world of RPing 11/11 d(^ _ ^d )

My favorite systems (as being the only ones I have played thus far) are...

1. Dragon Age

2. TOR

3. D&D 4.0

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I feel so like the NEWB. (- _ - ) <Le Sigh)

Age: 41
Been playing for over 25 years(not continuous), with the same group from high school.

Top 3 favourite games. Hmm, tough one, I would have to say (in no particular order)
1)L5R
2)Pendragon
3) My third choice is based only a reading of the rules, I haven't had a chance to run or play a game, however I am currently working on setting up a PbP for some memebers of my above mentioned group, but it seems to have all the aspect I look for in a game-Yggdrasill.

Almost 40, playing since I was 16.

My favorite games?

1- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Then, in no particular order:

Cyberpunk
Call of Cthulhu
Fading Suns
SLA Industries
Battletech (with homebrew rules & jury-rigged universe)
Vampire
Ars Magica

Never got the chance to play (yet), but very fond of:
Legend of the Five Rings
The One Ring

Don't play but mine for info, ideas and rules:
GURPS
Pendragon

I´m 43 and i´m playing since i was fifteen years old.

My favorites are
- Rolemaster
- Midgard ( i think it´s released onlly in germany)
- Vampire
- The Lord of the rings RPG
- Cyberpunk


.... and i don´t have a group actually :-(

greets, Alex

36, started when I was 7 in 1983 with B/X D&D.

My top 3 favourite RPGs are:

1. Exalted
2. Cthulhutech
3. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

I'll be 40 next month; been playing since I was 10 (red box D&D classic)

TOP 3 RPGs...

1. The One Ring
2. Star Wars Saga Edition
3. Savage Worlds: Pirates of the Spanish Main

Others I Like...

4. Traveller (Mongoose)
5. The Adventures of Indiana Jones TSR
6. Smallville RPG
7. Pendragon

Interested in learning more about...

8. Primeval
9. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying
10. Spellbound Kingdoms (because of fighting system)

39 (just!), started at age of 11 with the D+D basic red box.

Favourite games:

Legend of the Five Rings
Shadowrun
Savage Worlds
Ars Magica
The One Ring
Bulldogs!

I'm 35 and been playing on and off since I was 16 (D&D Rules Encyclopedia).

My current favourites are:

1. The One Ring
2. Call of Cthulhu (includes Delta Green and The Laundry)
3. This is a tough one. I love Unknown Armies and Wild Talents/Godlike for the way they read, but for playing I think I'll go with Star Wars Saga Edition or Hollow Earth Expedition. Hmmm.

I'm 39, started out early (1981-2) playing CoC and RQ. I still hold both as two of my favorites.

Picking Titles for a favorite-list is like picking favorites between your children... horror... but if you force my hand I'll say:

1. Call of Cthulhu
2. Pendragon
3. Rune Quest

WFRP lists very high in my book as well... but since they botched it with this last edition I'm considering washing my hands from that game. :-(

/wolf

Nuff said.

With a little more than 20 years of gaming ( and gamemastering behind me), my favourites:

1. Earthdawn
2. TOR
3. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

30 years old. I've been playing for 12 years.

My favorites RPG are:
0. King Arthur Pendragon
1. Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game
2. The One Ring
3. Diaspora

Older than everyone else who has posted an age so far.

Playing and running games for 30 years. Started with AD&D.

Favourites in no particular order.

The One Ring
Hollow Earth Expeditions(Pulp Adventure!)
Dragon Age(Stunt Dice!)
Mutants & Masterminds
Alternity(Dark Matter setting made that game)
Call of Cthulhu

Most important factor in the game of course is the group. If you're having fun, the game will be fun).

What the hell...
18
And I started about 2 years ago with D&D Fourth Edition.
Posting my favourites is probably moot as all I've played is D&D and TOR

A few months shy of 40.
Started gaming around '81 with D&D.

Favorite games in no particular order (I play or run all 3 regularly):
-Call of Cthulhu
-Pendragon
-The One Ring

Looking forward to trying in the next few months:
-Yggdrasill (have the PDF and registered for a game at GenCon)
-Dresden Files (picking it up at GenCon)
-Diaspora (own it)

Ran a game of Barbarians of Lemuria 2 weeks ago. It's great for a pick up game.

I'm 35, and I've played rpgs since I was 15.

I tend to rate rpgs within their genre, so here are the ones I most enjoy (although I don't play all of these at once, of course):

Fantasy: The One Ring & Iron Kingdoms RPG (waiting like a kid on christmas for the new IK RPG, but living in Norway, I can't just go to GenCon and pick it up...)

Modern: Spycraft 2.0 & Call of Chtulhu (Delta Green being a favorite for CoC)

Science Fiction: Eclipse Phase and Star Wars (with Eclipse Phase, I love the setting, but the rules just doesn't work for me)

Edit: How could I forget Blue Planet under sci-fi?? Shame on me!

Strangely enough, I'm just about to start a campaign in Rogue Trader. The Warhammer 40k setting is a bit too over-the-top for me, but my players are fanboys, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

-Eirik

Wow, I'm only 24 next month. Been playing since I was maybe 14, started with Decipher's Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, actually, and Star Wars d20 (my Dad was against D&D at the time). A little later I got the Marvel Universe Role-Playing Game.

In college I started playing D&D and GMing, I've played and GM'd the Mistborn Adventure Game (interesting, but I didn't really like it) and The One Ring. I'm looking into buying Burning Wheel and Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. I actually design games more than I play them*.

*(I don't mean to self-promote, but if you're interested, I just started a blog on which, among other things, I am designing a d20 game which borrows heavily from TOR, combined with my own innovations. Matters of Critical Insignificance)

Just turned 44 years young, and started playing back in the early 80s.

Pups.

47 years old. Started playing sometime around 6th grade, I think, with the D&D brown books in the white box and Chainmail rules.

I've played and ran many RPG's since then and have found something to like in most of them. If forced to give a list here are some that I like in no particular order.

The One Ring
D&D 1st, 2nd & 3.5
Rolemaster
Pathfinder
Star Wars d6
Pendragon
Mutants & Masterminds
Call of Cthulhu
James Bond
Milleniums End
Spycraft
Ghostbusters
Amber
Wheel of Time
Marvel Super Heroes
Chill
Serenity
Vampire: The Masquerade
Fiasco

36, playing since 11.

Favourite games of all time:
1) 2300 AD
2) AD&D 2E Oriental Adventures
3) d20 Historical Campaign set in 13th-century Germany

You win the thread.

Its such a shame that a Player Guide hasn't been released for that long lost RPG (hint, hint).

48 years old, also started with T&T when 16.

Favourites:

The One Ring
Runequest
Pendragon
WHFRP
MERP

Cheers,

Kev

Well, Born in '69, started gaming in '81 with AD&D 1E, but we also used the brand new Moldvay Basic Set.
Been gaming since.

Favorites - top tier
-- Traveller, specifically the MegaTraveller edition
-- Pendragon, specifically 4th ed
-- Tunnels and Trolls, 5.5 ed
-- Prime Directive 1st Ed.

...Interesting how the vast majority that have posted here are in our late 30s and 40s.

Yupp. Also noting the high regards we seem to pay Pendragon RPG.

/wolf

There are some great games being listed, its nice to see such a variety.

Winter Phase - my players love/hate it!

I think Pendragon has a lot a themes and values running through it that are shared with The One Ring. I know, before TOR came out I was working on putting together a LotR system using Pendragon as a strong basis.

I'm running The Great Pendragon Campaign IRL right now, been going every Thursday since March this year.

We love it.

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On a completely different note : I got RQ6 in the mail two days ago.... 450pages of RuneQuest-love! Finally a worthy edition after all these years!!! MGP can drop dead for all I care.

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/wolf

Yeah I surprised at this fact too. I'm so far the youngest here lol 21 years old

Turning forty-one in a few months, I found roleplaying games at the tender age of nine - Basic D&D - as part of a fourth-grade class in public school no less.

Nearest and dearest to my heart....?

1. TOR
2. MERP (This has been supplanted by TOR, but it introduced me to roleplaying in Tolkien's Middle-earth. And, the first time you never forget!)
3. Chaqsium 1st Edition Stormbringer

Dabbled, delved and deviated from a number of other games along the way to TOR. These days for me, most roleplaying games being released have little appeal. Last year after all the traffic on this forum referring to Mouse Guard, I picked that up to play one day when the kids are older.

Regards,
E

It was a tough sell for me to suggest playing something other than The Great Pendragon Campaign - we'd left it last year after just finishing the Uther Period so my players were really gearing up to stake a claim as major Knights of Salisbury, defending their lands from the saxons and other groups. I'm sure we'll go back to it at some time - hopefully soon.

Mouse Guard looks to be an awesome RPG. Only read it so I have a rule that I can't list games I haven't played as favourites, but I suspect I'd love playing/GMing it.

Oh, no... it's Beleg, he is 18 years old.

My group rotates between The Great Pendragon Campaign and The One Ring. We play every other Sunday night and have for the last years.

Someone else runs Pendragon and I run The One Ring. We play one for 3 or 4 weeks and the switch off to the other for 3 or 4 weeks.

Rich it's funny you said you were working on a Middle Earth version of Pendragon before The One Ring. I was doing the same. I was working on mapping out the Traits and Passions.

Me too... Also, Renown instead of Glory (and how it accrued), different skills, weapons, racial stat bonuses, etc. Was also thinking about some kind of Hope mechanic but hadn't called it that - I referred to it as Morale but was never happy with that term.

Not the oldest in this thread anymore... I'm joint 2nd.

And it is curious how many 40 somethings there are!

Garbar,
I was very interested in Dragon Age, but this was when only the first box was out. It didn't seem like there was much material for a campaign. Was I wrong and has this changed?

I haven't played Dragon Age, do you think that will detract from the game?

Really, it isn't. And please lets not go there as such statements aren't really approproriate for this thread. Thanks.

Age 33 (guess I fall somewhere in the middle)

TOR
Star Wars d6 & Saga
Call of Cthulhu
D&D
Old Warhammer RPG
Cyberpunk
MERP
Gurps
Deadlands

Lots of others

Templar72
They have released a GM Screen with one large adventure in it and Blood In Ferelden which has three adventures and three adventure seeds.

The campaign stalled a bit because I was struggling to write stuff at the time... lack of inspiration to be honest!

Part of the problem was that I had played Dragon Age, but my players hadn't, so they did not know what to expect.

So I started searching the internet and found a lot of fan stuff out there. Not just adventures and new monsters, but complete worlds using the AGE system.

I found Mystara (D&D Basic world), Age Of Conan and... Star Wars, but there are probably others!

When I resume that game, I'm going to reboot it. Keep the characters, but forget about the official Dragon Age world and probably use the Mystara setting, I used to have the Gazetteers for that and loved the setting.

Anyway, you would probably like a link, so....

http://www.dragonageoracle.com

Start there and explore. You can find links to Mystara, Age of Conan and Star Wars along with a lot of other stuff.

Obviously, Green Ronin has stuff too, including character sheets, previews etc.

http://greenronin.com/dragon_age/

And they even have a free quick start guide to download. That has basic rules, pregen characters and a short adventure.

http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr2800e.html

Kobold Quarterly has done some articles on it too, but I don't have them all and can't pass judgement on them.

So in answer to your question... no... not having played the computer game will not detract from the Dragon Age at all.

The rules are generic enough to apply to any setting, so pick something you know or make up your own game.

Hope that helps you out. Just talking about it has made me want to play again