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Was DnD your first RPG?

Started by Michael M, March 06, 2007, 12:46:55 PM

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#45
March 06, 2007, 07:03:54 PM
Quote from: Michael MWith 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?

My first game was the D&D basic boxset.

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March 06, 2007, 07:10:43 PM
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.
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#47
March 06, 2007, 07:30:59 PM
Moldvay edition D&D was my first RPG.  Somehow the book was lost when I went to University...

TODAY my new near-mint-condition Moldvay edition D&D boxed set arrived in the mail! The rulebook and B2: Keep on the Borderlands. It even has the original dice and crayon. :hyper:

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#48
March 06, 2007, 07:46:43 PM
Yes, 1st edition AD&D.  However, I had moved on to Traveller and RQII within a year and largely stopped playing AD&D within two years of beginning to play.  Essentially, it was the only game in town at the time.

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#49
March 06, 2007, 07:57:26 PM
AD&D 2E, then Shadowrun 2E. The year was 1994, IIRC.

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#50
March 06, 2007, 08:22:58 PM
April 1st, 1983, played this version,



June 15th, 1983, got for my birthday,



And so it goes on...

Note: the different editions and printings of D&D Basic are described here. It's a site telling us the value of various editions to collectors, with a bit of information describing each.
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#51
March 06, 2007, 08:30:15 PM
The 15th printing of Basic D&D (the big boardgame-style box with the Red Dragon on the cover) was the first "real" RPG I ever played.  (We were doing forgey free-forming with my old HeroQuest boardgame before that.)
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#52
March 06, 2007, 09:28:24 PM
My first rpg was Twilight 2000.  Had a great group that I fell into and a GM that was an absolute master at running ANY game.
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March 06, 2007, 09:43:19 PM
Makes one wonder how much our first games shaped us as gamers, doesn't it?
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#54
March 06, 2007, 09:47:26 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Makes one wonder how much our first games shaped us as gamers, doesn't it?

Shadowrun made me love dicepools, guns, and magic systems that don't involve spells per day.

It also made me hate really heavy rulesets.  I think I now realize why D&D never appealed to me. :D

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#55
March 06, 2007, 09:51:03 PM
Quote from: CodexArcanumIt also made me hate really heavy rulesets. I think I now realize why D&D never appealed to me.

Shadowrun is a much heavier ruleset than the D&D most people are talking about in this thread... ;)

Kyle Aaron

#56
March 06, 2007, 10:18:46 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Makes one wonder how much our first games shaped us as gamers, doesn't it?
Not much, I think. After almost 24 years, I've played enough different games that it all cancels out and I just play according to my own personality...
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#57
March 06, 2007, 10:19:39 PM
Quote from: Michael MWith 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?

Mine was "Doctor". With Gina, from across the street.
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#58
March 06, 2007, 11:13:29 PM
TMNT and Other Strangeness. Played it when I was eight or so, IIRC. I loved the Ninja Turtles.
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#59
March 06, 2007, 11:39:25 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Makes one wonder how much our first games shaped us as gamers, doesn't it?

I think it's decisive. Age is also important. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't love (or "get") D&D the way I do (or think I do) if a) it hadn't been my first game, b) at the fairly advanced age of 16 or 17. I never had a "w00t my Drizzt got 2 katanas +7 d00d" phase to look back and down to.

That said, starting with Star Wars d6 must have been bunches of fun. Can you deal with classes and levels at all?
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