Yep, D&D was my first game. Started with this one (got it for a Christmas gift in 1979):



Went on to 1e AD&D pretty quickly after that.

Quote from: James J SkachEDIT: 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!

B1 - In Search of the Unknown

Started playing 1st ed. AD&D when I was 7 with my older cousin.  The first RPG I bought was the Red Box.

Quote from: el diablo roboticoB1 - In Search of the Unknown

Bingo!

Thanks...that brings back memories without having to go home to find my version.

Was this version before or after the Red Box of which everyone speaks?

IIRC (and I've got a horrible memory so probably don't) that was before the red box. Red box had B2, Keep on the Borderlands.

Yup, it was pre-AD&D and wasn't RC, but I don't remember exactly what.

Quote from: James McMurrayIIRC (and I've got a horrible memory so probably don't) that was before the red box. Red box had B2, Keep on the Borderlands.

That's what I thought too.

Nope, my first was Chainmail, the precurser to D&D (the little white boxversion with 3 small booklets), which I then started playing in around 1976.  Crud, that was a long time ago.

Red box Basic D&D. After a year or two of that I moved on to AD&D 1st edition. From there to 2nd edition(with most of 1st thrown in).

Around the time of 2nd edition coming out I moved and found a new group and while our mainstay was 2nd edition, we started playing other games. Paranoia, 2300AD, Lands of Adventure, Tales from the Floating Vagabond, 1st edition White Wolf stuff (and we played it wrong! But had fun, so we didn't care ), CoC, Robotech Rifts, Mekton and even Twerps.

There may haven been a few others in there, but I don't remember off the top of my head.

I've moved again, so I am with out a group right now. My last group lasted 15 years and we mainly played AD&D 2nd edition, with some MtA 2nd/WtA 2nd thrown in for a break.( and we played mage/werewolf w/out the pseudo intellectualism thank you very much).

Quote from: James J SkachBingo!

Thanks...that brings back memories without having to go home to find my version.

Was this version before or after the Red Box of which everyone speaks?

Yes.  The 'Holmes Basic D&D' rules came out around 1977, about the same time as the Monster Manual (which was before the PHB and DMG), and sold until around 1979/80.  The rules assume that players will move on to play Advanced D&D (not 'Expert', etc.).  This was right before the Arneson-Gygax legal spat that led TSR to maintain D&D and AD&D as separate games.

A few years after the Holmes Basic set came out the Moldvay Basic Set was produced (that's the one with the magenta box with the Erol Otus illustration; published 1980/81).  The 'red box' Basic Set was edited by Frank Mentzer, and had an Elmore cover.  It's actually the 'late comer', which is why it always amuses me when gamers think of themselves as 'grognards' if they started with it.  They're neophytes!
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I'm feeling like a spring chicken here.  My first RPG was Shadowrun 3rd edition.  Picked it up because I loved the Genesis game so much, and I wanted to see the roots of computer RPGs.  Thus did my love for pencil and paper find its own genesis.

WEG Star Wars for me, too.

D&D was my second RPG.

Quote from: CodexArcanumI'm feeling like a spring chicken here.  My first RPG was Shadowrun 3rd edition.  Picked it up because I loved the Genesis game so much, and I wanted to see the roots of computer RPGs.  Thus did my love for pencil and paper find its own genesis.

I played the Shadowrun RPG for the first time last year and couldn't get that crazy theme music from the Genesis game out of my head.

Mentzer's Red Box was my first RPG and was given to me as a Christmas gift when I was 12 or 13.  I introduced it to some other kids but they didn't care for it (personally I blame Keep on the Borderlands).  But many of those same kids did grab onto Marvel Super Heroes and was our system for a long time.

In high school, a friend of mine and I introduced a few guys to d6 Star Wars and we played that for about a year and had a lot of fun.

My first game was a sort of DnD 1e/2e hybrid. We didn't know what we were doing. We bought I think the 2e Monstous Compendium and then used 1e core books. Eventually it glided into 2e.