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Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

My 1980's high school's D&D club was run by a social studies teacher named Mr. Lincoln. When a friend told me "Mr. Lincoln has a magic ring that causes diarrhea!" I had no idea whatsoever what they meant, but I figured it was too good to miss. Three games later my human monk died ignominiously when a secret door fell on him, and that was pretty much it. I was hooked. I even started hitting things in combat once in a while after someone explained to me the difference between a d12 and a d20.

Jump forward almost 20 years. I'd been going to gaming conventions for a decade, running and playing hundreds of "classic" RPGA

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

Hi. I'm Ryan Nock, RangerWickett on the EN World messageboards. I write for E.N. Publishing, which produces products for D&D 4th edition and Pathfinder (and, hopefully, for D&D Next). I've been a fan of Wizards of the Coast since they published Talislanta, before they even had Magic: the Gathering.

Talislanta got me into roleplaying, but I was first introduced to D&D through, of all things, the Dragonlance trilogy audiobooks. On cassette. (My mom needed something for a long roadtrip to keep her 10 year-old son distracted.) From there I jumped to novels, and it wasn't until 4 or 5 years later that I got actual D&D books,

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

I'm Claudio Pozas, artist and writer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

I started playing D&D (and RPGs in general) in 1987, with AD&D 1e. Back then me and my group didn't have as strong a grasp of English as I do now, so we got some rules wrong (like thinking that clerics had spellbooks, just like magic-users). About a year later I was already DMing (starting with the Temple of Elemental Evil). In 1990, I made the switch to AD&D 2e, and have kept up with the system since then. Beyond D&D, I've played Shadowrun, Marvel Superheroes, DC Heroes, Star Wars d6, Vampire, Call of Cthulhu and Rolemaster. But it always comes back

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

Well I started playing D&D in the late 1990s after I asked a friend about his weird hat. It was not the best experience but I saw potential in this game. I didn't pick up the game again until right after 3rd edition came out. With a group and DM better suited to my style, I began to fall for the game. Then the urge to DM emerged.

I think my journey through D&D and its editions would probably be one of the more unique ones. I went backwards with the editions from 3rd. Then forward in the order time states. Each edition, I jumped into the game with a new group. Seasoned in with D&D play were a few other tabletop games,

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

I got started playing AD&D with a friend in high school, but we didn't get too far. It wasn't until I was 18 that a boyfriend reintroduced me to the game, again AD&D. I played a Wizard, had no clue what I was doing, but I liked how the game was like a very elaborate "Let's pretend," which appealed to my love of creating stories. I kept playing as I moved around the country. I even met my husband gaming. The family that RP's together, stays together. When we had a son, we turned him into a gamer too :)

I've been hanging around the community since TSR Online on AOL years ago, and then when Wizards of the Coast moved to

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

My name is "Jester" David Gibson. I've been playing D&D since 1993 although I'd been exposed to the game far earlier via the '80s cartoon and the Dungeon! board game. I do a D&D-based webcomic at 5mwd.com and write a blog here at the WotC Community site.

I'm currently running a Pathfinder game set in Ravenloft that I occasionally preempt for playtesting, having recently updated the original Castle Ravenloft module to D&D Next. My players managed to not all be killed by Strahd.

How does D&D Next compare, so far, with your favorite editions?

Favorably.

Or rather, favorably with the promised modularity. I really enjoy

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

I started playing D&D when I was 9. My best friend's older brother played AD&D and one night he ran me and my friend through a quick dungeon crawl. I tried to play a wizard and I'm sure I failed miserably. I was hooked. As I grew older I transitioned from one edition to the next and played around with other systems including Gurps, TMNT, Rifts, and a slew of White Wolf games. I always come back to D&D though.

As for other things about me, I always wanted to try my hand at making games or at least working with people who do, so when I started working at Wizards ten years ago I was pretty excited. Things just got better

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

I have been involved in Dungeons & Dragons since my older brother (Brian R. James) first introduced it to me in 1987. I was too young to play it then, but I do have vivid memories of sword & sorcery and the tales that came about from his gaming group. When I got a bit older, I was finally able to join my brothers group (much to their chagrin) when someone could not attend. Since those early days, I have been involved heavily in RPGs and have played every edition, to include the original white boxed set. Aside from actually playing the game, I am a dedicated collector. I own a good portion of the D&D catalog since the

Why don’t you start off by telling us a little bit about you and your history with D&D, what you're playing now, and anything else you want people to know about you?

My name is Yan, 33, I am French-Canadian living in Montréal, Québec with my wife and 2 daughters. I started playing D&D in the late 80s with the famous red box, like many other kids out there no doubt. Since then I played every iteration of the game and it has been one of my passions ever since. There isn't a day I don't read or write D&D, or visit its community. I currently run an AD&D 2nd edition campaign and a D&D 4th edition campaign, as well as playing and running D&D Next, both online and face-to-face.

What do you think of the D&D Next playtest so far?

The playtest has been a very exciting experience