"Let's see, I got the blue-cover Basic D&D boxed set from my parents for X-Mas when I was in 7th grade, I would have been 12, um... hey, that would be the begining of 1979 as well. (Although I'll admit I was mostly in M[onty] H[aul] dungeons or one-shots before college in 1985. Let's call it game experience of 20 years, role-playing experience of 14 years.)"