Sadly, I only recall I made up a Dwarf Fighter with my Holmes set in '78, surely patterned after Gimli. His name escapes me, and the character sheet is long gone. I have managed to save the majority of my campaigns and accompanying characters over the past 35+ years, though (across too many systems to list).

Balbo Baggins, a halfling thief. Bilbo's cousin. It seemed like a great idea when I was 10 years old!

First Character created:
The small campaign I was running back in 1981ish my friend/player made a Dwarven fighter.
As an NPC for him, I created Daniel "The Lionhearted" Human Fighter.
He made it to 10th level and became the King of Verbobonc.
Great thing is, my current campaign he is again going to become an NPC. Some 37 years later.

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Got it!!

Hmmmm... I'm not sure I ever gamed as player even once until NTRPG Con in 2010. So, my first player was , I think, in Mythmere's Mythras Tower at that convention. I had a dwarf named Lucky. He died when an ant chewed off his face. 

My schedule that year:

- Mythmere, Mythras Tower
- Tim Kask, can't recall
- Grodog, Castle Greyhawk
- Philotomy Jurament, Cromlek Tor
- Rob Kuntz, The Dungeon of Death

Chainsaw wrote:

Hmmmm... I'm not sure I ever gamed as player even once until NTRPG Con in 2010.

I was introduced as a player in middle school.  I gm'ed a few years and played as well.  I started GM'ing at cons in  2012 with AS&SH and now have a hard time sitting and just playing in someone else's game.

I always wondered if this was the case with GM's that have always run vs getting to play.


 

Iron Ranger wrote:

Got it!!

I love seeing things like this. I have my own archive, and I pull something out now and again to review.

Spider of Leng wrote:

I still do all my campaign notes and adventure writing by hand.

I usually do as well, though sometimes I do manage to type them up as I go. I bought some RPG journals for one of our players, and she's an amanuensis in truth: a running record of our sessions, all hand-written. We usually go a few weeks between sessions, so her records are a godsend, even for the Ref...

Spider of Leng wrote:

In fact I still take all my notes for my published academic stuff on 3x5 index cards, then type the manuscripts from the cards.  I'm old school in many ways, I guess.  Hell, I still collect CDs and I was making mix tapes until last year when I traded in my old car that had the cassette deck in it...

Yes, that's pretty much the textbook definition of OS. 

My first character was a fighter named "Shadowlord" for AD&D in 1988. I guess I thought the name sounded cool to my 10 year old self at the time. My second was an evil cleric named "Gwyn the Hunter" from the Lloyd Alexander Prydain chronicles books. Both of those came in 1988. Cue 1989 when my 11 year old self was actually able to scrounge enough money to buy a PHB, read rules, etc. I tore up Shadowlord in disgust over my "not understanding the rules". I still haven't located the Gwyn character sheet, but he made it to 6th level. By this time 2E was the big thing and growing up in northern WI I couldn't find 1st edition MM or DMG, so I converted to 2E because I was telling anyone who I could about this awesome game and I had to DM since no one else wanted to. The funny part was I didn't actually get the 1E stuff until years later when I started collecting AD&D things!

Spider of Leng wrote:

The most extensive was for a BECMI campaign (ca. 2003-2012 intermittently) that took the PCs from 1st level to immortality and used the vast majority of the published TSR adventures and all the gazetteers.
 

A few years ago my wife alerted me to a FreeCycle post near us of someone giving away "D&D stuff". I went by, picked up a box left in the driveway, and was amazed to find a complete BECMI set (which I'd not previously owned), a few modules and supplements, and lastly a bunch of campaign binders dating from the early '90's. Quite cool to see someone's creative output, though bittersweet, since they'd given it away.