Chris Turkel wrote: > > On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 06:54 PM, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/24/2002 2:16:41 PM Mountain Daylight Time, > > spiderman92 at attbi.com writes: > > > > > >> > >>> David > >>> Started playing AD&D in 1979. > >>> > >> I was *born* after you started to play... Anyway, D&D sucks if you > >> don't > >> have a good DM, and it takes too long. > >> > > > > 1978 here. Yeesh, I AM old. Any RPG system has the potential for > > greatness > > or lousiness and it is impossible to place blame solely on the > > shoulders of > > the GM or the players. It's a two-way street. As for taking too long > > - > > that's the whole point. Who'd want to play an RPG that only lasted > > two hours > > and was over and done with? > > > > Stacy > > 1982 here. The DM makes all the difference. I've played very good games > and very bad ones. So when you guys say 1978 and 1982, I'm assuming you mean those as the years you began roleplaying. I first started in 1998, in a AD&D Darksun set campaign that didn't last very long. I tend to prefer other systems to D&D in terms of the mechanics, but I'll always remember Athas fondly. Jose -- Jose Marquez jhereg69 at earthlink.net