Dungeons and Dragons was my first RPG.  More specifically, the Basic Set with the Erol Otis warrior fighting the green dragon whle the chick with the torch watched on from the stairway was my first RPG.  It came with a 64 page rulebook and B2: The Keep on the Borderlands.

Then after I got it, no one wanted to play.  Apparrently, I had bought the "baby game".  I wasn't like the cool kids who owned the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons hardcovers.

My second RPG was the Universe second edition RPG by SPI.  My third was the little black box of Traveller with the 3 basic rulebooks.  My fourth became Advanced Dungeons & Dragons when I was given $50 as birthday money.  I think my fifth was the original Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set.  After that, I lose track.

Nope,...not really.

 The first 2 or 3 RPG sessions where I was a player it was a D&D game  - but that never turned into a campaign. Also 2 friends of that DM were killed in the WHO Concert tragedy  - so we never did more than hose 2 or 3 games.

 The first game where I was a player  and that actually had an ongoing story to it was classic TRAVELLER. I was 15 or 16 at the time.


- E.W.C.

Yeah, D&D was my first game.

I started with the original Basic Set, the blue one with the cover by Sutherland and written by Dr. Holmes.  

This one.
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It came with chits instead of dice!

Playing good ol' Basic D&D was my first RPG experience, and the very first RPG book that I ever owned was the 1st Ed. AD&D Monster Manual that I got for Christmas.  It was all downhill from there...


TGA

First game we ever played was a homebrew version of Fighting Fantasy, derived from the solo gamebooks. Then we got RuneQuest (2). A friend bought CoC, and we rolled up characters but couldn't get into the idea of it (we were twelve). I got D&D Expert before I got D&D Basic - the Expert was the older version, the Basic was the newer one. We quickly graduated to AD&D 1st Ed, and we played that, RQ, and Traveller. I gave up on AD&D when Unearthed Arcana came out, because I felt it was pointless trying to keep up. After that, it was mostly BRP games (most notably Stormbringer) and homebrews. Although, we did dabble with AD&D again for Dark Sun and Planescape. After that, we played all sorts of stuff.

- Q

Quote from: O'BorgDragon Warriors in paperback novel format here.

Hee! I remember those. Never got round to playing them though. They were my third RPG purchase.

Yep, basic d&d, then MERP, then Dragon Warriors.

Quote from: One Horse TownHee! I remember those. Never got round to playing them though.

You can still download them in PDF from Home of the Underdogs, if nostalgia strikes. Actually, I think that someone had a PbP game running at RPGnet a while ago.

Yep, Moldvay D&D, crayons and the rest, circa 1980/81. Just bought it again on ebay. It's SO cute.

Quote from: GrimGentYou can still download them in PDF from Home of the Underdogs, if nostalgia strikes. Actually, I think that someone had a PbP game running at RPGnet a while ago.

Indeed. I heard in rumour land that James Wallis was working on a hardback re-print that contains all six books. Nostalgia heaven!

Quote from: ClaudiusWell, this is my first post here, please be gentle, guys!

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.

Welcome Claudius! =)

Looks like we've got a good supply of Red Boxers here. All you folks rock!

Quote from: AkrasiaYeah, D&D was my first game.

I started with the original Basic Set, the blue one with the cover by Sutherland and written by Dr. Holmes.  

This one.
:cool:
It came with chits instead of dice!

ditto!  purchased sometime in 1978-79...

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Same here.

Quote from: kregmosierditto!  purchased sometime in 1978-79...

Another Ditto...Purchased around the same time...from I don't know where.  I think my brother (7 years older) bought it and just gave it to me as he couldn't find anyone in his peer group with whom to play. I was playing within a week.

EDIT: And the Intro module was B1 - but I can't remember the name of it and I'm at work.  The one with the dungeon of the mad missing wizard if I remember correctly - and a Troglodyte!

And yes, I still have it.

Quote from: kregmosierditto!  purchased sometime in 1978-79...

The one my mom got me had to have been this one, as it's the only one that was available in November of 1977, when I had my 21st birthday. That was the year Traveller was released, and it was brand spanking new when I bought it. I don't remember what happened to the 1st printing basic set - whether I traded it  for something else or not I'm not sure, but I don't have it any more. I do have the red Errol Otus version as well, but I picked that up later as a second book for my players to use for reference.

-clash

Added: The first game I played wasn't Basic, though, it was OD&D - with the white cover. The GM had been running a game for a couple years. When AD&D came out, the first thing released was the Monster Manual, and for a long time we played a mix of Basic and AD&D as things were released. Eventually, we houseruled a lot of Basic D&D into AD&D. WE never actually played AD&D by the book.