At what age did you start playing SR?, Played, not bought your first book. Options

[blakkie]

Not your age now. Not the age at which you dragged together the cash for your first book, although feel free to post that to the thread also. This is your age at the time you first sat down to play a game.


P.S. I'm allowed to classify the oldest bracket that way because i'm now of that age range. :P

[Slacker]

I didn't start playing Shadowrun until my early twenties, but I started playing roleplaying games in general (specifically D&D) when I was only 5 or 6!

[Nikoli]

I started playing shadowrun about a month after my first AD&D2nd ed game, in HS.

[Jrayjoker]

18 and out the door!
Freshman year of college, SR1.

Had a regular game of SR2 by junior year.

[Critias]

14 years old, baby. Freshman year of high school, bought it for something to take with me on a Spring Break vacation.

[blakkie]

[Catsnightmare]

Somewhere between 16 and 18 IIRC. It was SR2 and I only played once, because while I understood the rules mechanics, physically locating the rules in the SR2 BBB was an unholy pain in the ass and pretty much turned me off the game. Never played again until SR3 hit the shelves, I looked though a friends copy after playing a session and found it vastly more organized and understandable than SR2 on it's best day. Fell in love with the setting all over again, and the new rules have become a close personal favorite of mine (spits on SR4). Been playing ever since.

[Supercilious]

Started with SR3, bought my first book when I was 14, actually played 2 years later when I was/am 16.

[Yoan]

Played sporadic D&D between the ages off 11 and 13. At the age, I was also reading some Shadowrun novels, before eventually finding the Genesis SR game at my local blockbuster. I rented it, eventually bought it. Played the SNES one, also. At the age of 14 or thereabouts, I bought used copies of 2nd Edition, DNA/DOA & Sprawl Sites for the kingly sum of 25$. I went downhill from there.

[ElFenrir]

17 here. I still recall me and the group taking about two weeks to actually make our characters, too. We started in 2e, but 2e was actually only a couple years old at the time I think...we still had a bunch of 1e books we used too i rememeber. First char was a horribly twinked sammie :upsd Well, we were all amazed at the number of options after D&D the GM let us go a little ape with the creation. :rotfl: Still used the books and rules but we managed to load our chars in ungodly ways. Then we grew up :D

[Aku]

22 for SR here, although i did play dnd as a kid, back with ravenloft, THAC0 and all that other jazz, also played one of the console SR games, graduated college, at 21, bought the book, and have recently picked up a few games online. Sadly, i think my forum game is dead :(

[Grinder]

I'd won the SR2 BBB back when i was 15 - and became an addict.

[Jrayjoker]

[Req]

Started with D&D in 5th grade. Got pulled into the Worst Shadowrun Game EVER in 9th grade, started GMing in 10th, and it's been...well...a whole lot of years, now.

[Fortune]

Although I have been playing RPGs forever (30 years), I first played Shadowrun when I was 27. It would have started earlier, but Shadowrun didn't exist before that.

[Kagetenshi]

I think I was eleven or twelve at the time, and the kids I usually played D&D with were playing this new game called Shadowrun. Played it a bit, got addicted, picked it back up in 3rd ed and here I am.

~J

[Foreigner]

I played my first game (my ONLY game, so far) with Sahandrian's online gaming group in July and August of 2003.

I turned 39 in May of that year.

EDIT: I should mention that I do have some prior RP experience--mostly with GDW's Traveller and TSR's Top Secret--but, until I became interested in SR, I hadn't played an RPG in over seventeen years--since approximately June, 1996.

EDIT #2: blakkie--Just out of curiosity, where are the rules for playing I.E.'s?

--Foreigner

This post has been edited by Foreigner: Jun 27 2005, 12:13 PM

[Shrapnel]

I think I was also 11 or 12 at the time. Can't say exactly WHEN we started, but I do remember HOW we started.

It was right after Shadowrun for SNES came out, and my friends and I were addicted to it. One of my friends went looking for a strategy guide, and ended up with a 1st Edition rulebook.

I still remember our first GM trying to teach me how to play. I don't think he ever bothered trying to read the rulebook, he was just using things he saw in the SNES game.

For instance, all of our characters started with ALL attributes at rating 1, and you could mix and match magic and cyberwear as much as you wanted...

After I borrowed the book for a little while, and actually read it, I got "volunteered" as the new GM, and have been practically stuck there ever since.

Moved up to 2nd Edition after a while, but haven't quite made it to 3rd Edition just yet. (I know I need to switch to 3rd Edition one of these days, but I'm really going to miss grounding spells into foci... :evil: )

[tisoz]

May as well just wait for 4th edition.

[Capt. Dave]

It was around 13-14 for me, playing SR, then upgrading to SR2 shortly thereafter.

[Pthgar]

I was 18, the summer after I graduated. My friends and I were trying to find something to do when it rained, nice days we skated and played Hackey Sack. Some one suggested we play D&D. I had read the Secrets of Power trilogy and flipped through the 1st edition book, so I said "What about Shadowrun?"

Six of us chipped in $5 each and bought the 2nd edition BBB ( it had been out for a few months) at the FLCS. We all loved it and played for several years. Now, only me and one other guy (who has a second job at the FLCS) from that original group play. We've added quite a few others though, including my wife.

[Fygg Nuuton]

I was about 11

My gaming style has changed considerably

I played the sega game on the sega channel, and saw a copy of shadowtech on the shelf. some older kids saw me reading it, thinking i knew how to play and invited me.

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