What game got you started?

[DM of Doom]

What was the first RPG that you ever played (or saw played, etc.) that got you into the hobby?

Mine was the West End Games 1st Edition Star Wars Roleplaying Game.

 

[Mick]

Hmm..there is only 1 which has stood the test of time and thats the #1 king of them all D&D..as canadian once said((and not Shatner)) the best there ever was ..best there ever is and the best there ever will be..but myself if there wasnt miniatures involved prior to finding it I would probably have never gotten into the whole gaming aspect..now with 3rd/3.5 ed its a must ..it just so happened I loved the minis and gaming so much it lead to me wanting to go from saying\"wouldnt it be cool if we could make minis.. to doing it\"..my 2 cents..

 

[leopardpixie]

i started with second edition d&d

 

[Mick]

hmm basic D&D circa 81 but minis a year or so prior.. Heritage boxsets and Caverns Deep ((Ral partha)).

 

[pitynoman]

Battletech

 

[airhead]

Original D&D (white boxed set) - the AD&D came out (player\'s handbook first - Man we were so much tougher than the monsters until they got their book.)

2ed and my job moving me around kinda turned me off of D&D for a while and I migrated to Battletech and MtG.

The Lord of the Rings movies were being hyped and my girls found my old D&D stuff and asked me to teach them how to play. Shortly after, we upgraded to 3.0 then 3.5. Our campaign has been running for a while now.

I also play Warlord and just about any other game anyone puts in front of me.

 

[Godlikebuthumble]

Das Schwarze Auge/DSA 3rd edition (or Realms of Arcania for non-Germans...

 

[tzor]

AD&D First edition in 1981.

My first wargame is another story. Got spoiled rotten by being in a college with a good ROTC program ... The Declassified version of the U.S. Navy\'s wargame ... I think it was Sea something.

My favorite event was when our phalanx system shot down the only nuclear missle in the scenario, allowing us to literally sail into the victory condition. I found out about when I heard from the other room, \"It got shot down by a machine gun?\"

Of course that was also when we learned out that if you really want to be detected don\'t just rev the engines and go full speed. Apparently they failed to detect the decoy ship because it was going to fast?

 

[Drake Farstrider]

Well the 1st game that I played was AD&D 2.5 in like 1999, although I did sit and watch my cousin play Cars Wars once back in the miod 80\'s.

The game that really got me wanting to roleplay though was Paranoia. It just sounded like so much fun. Still never had the chance to play it.

 

[tidoco2222]

I started with MERP from ICE and bought a whole host of the ICE supplements though a degree in quantum physics was needed to understand the rules. I also loved Talisman and Circus Maximus.

 

[Mosch]

More or less Das schwarze Auge/Realms of Arcania second edition. We have played RPGs long before that though, however we thought of our own rules which changed every session, but we had fun Also, we constantly played Heroquest, but that hardly counts as an RPG.... not really.

 

[Itchy]

The very first time i saw a mini i was over at my sister\'s, at the time, boyfriend\'s apartment. There was a whole room dedicated to second edition Warhammer 40K... all the goodies from Rogue Trader, first edition and second edition and seeing the battlefield set up and 1/2 played made my middle school head explode. So, i started playing \"Wammer 4DK\" and that lead me to my local game store. Soon i was looking for minis i could\'t get at my LGS online and i found CMoN. Then i saw that minis could be nicely painted and not 1/2 arsed the way i paint them. Then i started painting nicer minis and got some put up in the LGS\'s display case. Then i got people in the store talking to me about other games and i get into D&D and here we all are.

 

[Sithtainius]

the first RPG I ever played was Robotech, \'cos I loved it as a kid and all I had to buy was one book, not the many differant books you needed for 2nd ed D&D....but eventually I found my way to D&D, and I\'ve also played GURPS, Shadowrun, Rifts, Werewolf, Street Fighter....pretty much if you put an RPG in front of me I\'ll give it a try....although most of the time I end up as the DM/GM

 

[Garyo]

Fringeworthy was my first RPG. Imagine the tv show Stargate as an RPG without the silly mythological god stuff. Lots of fun and good game mechanics. Then I found Traveler and got the ever classic Basic D&D for X-mas.

Garyo

 

[mrteal]

D & D for 2 years and then I dropped RPGs forever. Just didn\'t enjoy them anymore. Then 40k and Battletech came along. And here I am.

 

[Sakura]

What got me started is the fact that my boyfriend started to master DSA for some friends. I didn\'t want to play it, but since we were both going to school at that time, Saturday was the only day of the week when I could sleep over at his house, and they allways played Saturdays. So I got really frustraded with it, since he also wouldn\'t allow me to just watch, that I just started playing so I could stay there for the night. But it\'s kind fun. Mostly At least I don\'t have to really roleplay anything.
I never really got to play anything else. We tried Vampire, but only managed to play one night... not sure why nobody was interested in playing it again.

 

[Mosch]

Let me explain that Vampire thing.

I want to play again. You want to play again. Schmiedel wants to play again. Markus, our DM, wants to play again. The only one who doesn\'t want to play it again is Matze.
For some reason, we cannot manage to play Vampire without Matze and he doesn\'t want to.

 

[DM of Doom]

Originally posted by Sithtainius
....pretty much if you put an RPG in front of me I\'ll give it a try....although most of the time I end up as the DM/GM

Ahh, there\'s a familiar feeling. I played in High school, two different colleges, in the navy, and now here in Florida. Every time, almost every game, I ended up being the GM/DM. Not that I mind, but every once in a while it\'d be nice to play for a change.

 

[Modderrhu]

Basic D&D for me, that set in the red box. A bunch of kids decided to play this \'classic\' game, and we bought it.

It was 2nd Ed AD&D that really got me into role-playing though. A huge and complicated system, but still the real classic as far as I am concerned.

 

[Sand Rat]

Chainmail.

Yes, I\'ve been playing for that long.

Then in 1977 or so, Chainmail became D&D and the rest is history.

Course, I\'ve played just about every system out there by now.