Back when I started Playing...

[Fredd]

Let's embrace our inner grumpy-old-man for some fun.

Back when I started playing... Mount beetles came in one color. War.

[Zenith]

Tuluk was open.

[Jihelu]

Tuluk was open.

My first character was in Tuluk.

[Bushranger]

Rangers had kick and disarm.

There wasn't an account system, instead to keep track of Karma and such when you created a new character you typed in the name of your previous character.

Kanks were awesome!

[Armaddict]

...when did rangers have kick and disarm?

[Bushranger]

Back in the 90s

[Armaddict]

Hot damn.

Just wondering, because my first ranger was in the Wyverns, and I remember oocing to ask, 'How do I get kick?'  And the guy responded 'Just use it a lot, or get it from bash'.

So I was a ranger who was using bash all the time just hoping kicking would show up in my skills list.  And I always thought it was a cruel joke where he was just laughing every time I fell down in combat.

[Molten Heart]

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[TheGoose]

...It was January.

[Hicksville Hoochie]

Back when I started playing...

Y2K was (not) a threat to Ginka!

[Cind]

Back when I started, clay grebbing in Tuluk was what you did to wait for a real (1%) job, and was actually not capable of supporting a lifestyle that wanted anything besides food and water.

Back when I started, well, it wasn't such a terribly long time ago. Kryl were not around, and Morin's was some junky one-bit place to buy a cup of water and rest mid-hunt. Without the kryl, the woods felt like an interesting, almost peaceful place if you were on the edge, serene and stunning. Now its a place of utmost terror because kryl. Also no limits of sorcerers and mindbenders, woo. Wonder why they did that eventually.

[valeria]

You couldn't see how good you were at skills.

[LucildaHunta]

On a day where there were 20 people on you had to wait in a queue to log in.

[ShaLeah]

The North was rebelling against Allanak.

No one told you to think about all the cool shit you could do INSTEAD of murder. In fact, you COULD murder people. Like ALL the time.

There were gypsies!

There were Nenyuks!
And ONE of those Nenyuk PCs had a KRATHI guard.

You couldn't see how good you were at skills.

Kanks were awesome!

They were. Honey-kanks were awesome-er. One of my characters had one.

I think back when I started HGs could be sorcerors.

Imagine?

[Riev]

There was some sort of War over Copper or something, and my newbie Lumberjack was helping secure wood for spike pits and other mechanical traps for those damn Nakkis.

I couldn't see my skills.

Tuluk was open.

PCs were High Templars.

[Delirium]

Luir's was just a spooky village and the market was in the inner yard and there was no outer bailey.

Tribeless desert elf magickers were everywhere.

[ShaLeah]

PCs were High Templars.

This is making me want to make a 'bring back the' Post.

[Pale Horse]

Men were real Men.

Women were real Woman.

Little sharp-toothed anklebiters from the Grey Forest...

..still existed.

So did sandwiches.

And eyeglasses.

[solera]

Bahamet incoming! The gates shut in your face when you really, really needed them to be open!

[Narf]

*The primary source of newbie coin was luring pre-stink gith to the gates so the guards could kill them for you. Their gear was worth the same as normal gear at this time.

*Anyone could play anything, which meant there were nearly weekly sorceror hunts.

*There were no crafting skills. You made coins by trading from one place to the other. Or see above.

*All elves were the same race.

[mansa]

Saturday Downtime.

[Lizzie]

There were these really tall thin figures wearing white hooded robes that would come to the Gaj and be spooky. Most people were afraid of them. They didn't usually talk. They just "be'ed spooky."

I got hired by a templar in Allanak and found out a few RL days later that there was a HUGE explosion in the north city that took out half the quarter.  I learned via IM from the person who told me about the game, that she was hanging out in Freil's Rest, which was more like an outpost at that point, and only adjacent to the city, not part of it. Or something like that. She made it sound very rustic, primitive and outdoorsy. If I'm understanding this right, this was when the crater showed up in Old Tuluk. This first character lived through all that, but never learned about it and I was too new to understand what was going on. So I never learned exactly what it was, I can really only just take an educated guess.

This same character was inducted into the Guild and then got hired (while still in the Guild) by a noble house, once the templar stored/got killed (I don't remember which). She was assassinated by her guild boss, he was contracted to kill her by some other influential person. I don't think I ever learned the actual reason for that.

[LauraMars]

the look echo was not a hemote

[Harmless]

With my second ever PC I  went to undertuluk and explored deep enough to die to an ankheg. That character had absolutely no IC reason to do that.

[Kankfly]

the look echo was not a hemote

Kanks were popular.

Everyone started with novice contact and that's the first skill all my PCs has to improve if they want to get anywhere.

There was an influx of anime characters.

There were Nenyuks!

And the only way to get an apartment was through a Nenyuki PC agent.