With all the talk going on about d20/Dnd's success I am wondering if there is anyone for whom DnD was NOT their first rpg? And if so, what game was their first rpg?

Nope.
 
Palladium Fantasy (1e), then Traveller, followed (a bit later) by Rifts.

Dungeons and Dragons was my first game, but back then it came in a red box with two rulebooks, a module, and some dice you had to color with a crayon.

Quote from: James McMurrayDungeons and Dragons was my first game, but back then it came in a red box with two rulebooks, a module, and some dice you had to color with a crayon.

Wow! that brings back memories. That was the first RPG books I owned and played as well.

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Palladium Fantasy (1e), then Traveller, followed (a bit later) by Rifts.

I have played a number of Palladium games but never the Fantasy game. it seemed to have a grittier feeling than DnD. And I have totally missed out on Traveller. Something I am trying to remedy. Sounds like a good game.

Have you played DnD since Zachary? What were your impressions of it after playing so many other games first?

yes, AD&D 2nd ed.

I got a D&D boxed set as a gift from my mom for my 21st birthday - this was long before AD&D. Before the week was out - and before I played D&D - I bought the Traveller boxed set. I played in a D&D game soon thereafter, but I ran Traveller before I ran D&D. I ran a D&D campaign for twenty years, and only ran Traveller a few times before utter indifference on the part of my then-current group made me pack it away not to be looked at for more than twenty years. I always loved Traveller more, and it was an enormous influence on my first RPG despite not looking at it once in those twenty years. D&D left no tracable influence at all that I can see.

Take your pick.

-clash

Nope.  Star Wars D6.  then on to DC Heroes, and then the Palladium line of suckfests, and then to WoD.

I didn't get into D&D until a year or two ago, after I started really playing NWN.  

I bought 3.0 the day of release, just because I wanted to support them for offering the price they did mainly.  I was somewhat impressed, in the sense that it was certainly better than previous versions, but I wasn't really a fan of D&D at all, in particular the character systems.

NWN I actualyl bought earlier as well, played it briefly as a barbarian, but didn't get far, i nfact it bored me.  It wasn't until a good year later that I popped it in again, deciding to give it another shot, and fell rather in love with it.  

From there, I moved on to the real version of D&D.

Basic Edition D&D Red-Box Set.

Dragon Warriors in paperback novel format here.

Quote from: Michael MI have played a number of Palladium games but never the Fantasy game. it seemed to have a grittier feeling than DnD. And I have totally missed out on Traveller. Something I am trying to remedy. Sounds like a good game.
 
Have you played DnD since Zachary? What were your impressions of it after playing so many other games first?

I have--from 1E to 3.5. For me, D&D had a lot of, well, D&Disms that other games didn't have. Not a plus or a minus, really, just the way it was. I eventually played it because, hey, it was what the most folks knew or had as a reference point--the lingua franca of our gamer community. And yeah, it was a lot of fun.
 
Loved the Rules Cyclopedia. Thought to myself, "WOW! This is really, really everything I'll ever need for D&D!".
 
Yeah, the 1st Ed. PFRPG was medium-gritty, I suppose. A lot of 1e fans don't like the 2nd Edition because they feel it's gotten more "Rifts-like"--a contention I don't really support. I'd put 2e about on the same page as D&D for grit or lack thereof, meaning it just depends on the DM/GM. Likely my favorite 3 things about PFRPG (aside from a unapologetically old-school setting and enthusiastic tone) are the active combat, divergent magic systems and sooo many traditionally monster races available as rationally playable classes--and not just as "Woo! I'm a monster!", but as an important, well-considered part and role in a larger world.

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Yes, the first RPG I played ever was old D&D (Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, remember?). It's strange, because old D&D, AD&D and D&D3 feel as if they were completely different games, but they get (almost) the same name.

Basic D&D here.  I forget which version it technically is, but it was the one with the red cover, three-hole-punched binding, and the kickass painting with the sorceress and the dragon.

I remember there were 3 + a DM who played one day - Keep on the Borderlands - and then I still wanted to play the next day while all the rest were doing something else.  Aaron, the DM, ran my wizard through a bit more of the dungeon.

Before they left, he either gave or sold me the book and the module.  Later on down the road, he sold me his 1e DMG/PHB/MM.

-O

Yup, 'twas: the Finnish translation of the Red Box, to be more precise, back in '88. I moved on to MERP soon afterwards, though.