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AD&D and Paranoia

I think I made my first one actually, around when I was 7. I wanted to get into D&D, but didn't have the money and didn't know where to find the rulebooks, so I just went and made something that I hoped would be similar. I called it Majors and Monsters if I recall correctly,and while the rules were very simplistic and EXTREMELY unbalanced (you could only play as pre-made characters that had godlike stats, there was only one, "dungeon," and it was more like a one-off dungeon-crawl roguelike than a proper RPG), I had a blast using gattling gun arms and laser swords to plow through zombies.

My first proper RPG was D&D 4e, since 4e rulebooks were the easiest to find at the time.

R.Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk 2013 (black box with dice and stuff) back in 1987 or so.
Dabbled briefly with Shadowrun about the same time.

I was aware of D&D (although it was AD&D at that stage) because I knew some guys who played it when I was at school - but I wasn't a gamer at that point.

Probably the new Rogue Trader from FFG and then D&D 3.5

Original D&D then MERP now 1ring and star wars

D&D 3rd Edition (2001), then Vampire: The Masquerade a bit after that.

I'm still one of the few that plays 3.5 instead of Pathfinder...

Purple Box Basic D&D. Then a bunch of others. Now I'm DM for my kids through their first D&D adventure (5e)

AD&D 2nd Revised

 streamdragon wrote:
Mine is probably AD&D 2e. I don't miss the janky, all over the place system, but I still have all my old books just the same.

 warboss wrote:
Rifts 25 years ago. If I ever want to experience that feeling again, I just need to pick up the latest Rifts books since Palladium hasn't bothered to ever really update it since instead ignoring the past quarter century of game design.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness was my go-to game for the better part of a decade. My friends and I played just about every day at school and on weekends. Sure, the system was (and is) terrible, but we didn't know better. Every once in a while I wax all nostalgic and break out the books and roll up a character. Then I realize why I stopped playing it, but no other system has really ever had a "mutant critters" system that felt as good as TMNTaOS did.

Rifts here too. Iv'e been a Juicer, a Ley line walker, a Dog Boy (the whole party was), a Technomancer, and a pilot in the NGR flying their version of the SAMAS.

Whats so broken about the system? It did suffer a bit from power creep IIRC.

Always watched a lot of friends play RPGs, but only recently go into them myself.

In the spirit of the OP, my first was Advanced Heroquest. Then Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1st edition. I wonder what happened to that character sheet ...

D&D Holmes (with the chits). They had pictures from Gencon (I think) following the wake of the college guy that got lost int the "steam pipes" incident and I asked for the game for Christmas (It was a wonder my dad didn't say no, considering how it got on the news in the first place). I also remember my dad taking me back to the toy store to get the dice for the game, the d20 was numbered 0-9 twice and I could never keep straight what was "+10".

Unfortunately, the game was too advanced for me at the time (I was in 4th grade), so I didn't really learn the rules until the Red Box/Moldvay set came out. Until then, I just made things up as according to what I "felt" was right - and played with the minis I had (grenadier monster set, painted with testor's enamels and that cheap "toothbrush" the paints come with...).

Either Vampire: The Masquerade or Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.

... whichever it was, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't even think most of us had hit ten yet.

HackMaster, 4th edition and D&D 3rd Edition. We started each about the same time. We played HackMaster weekly from release until 2008 or so.

Basic Redbox D&D in the 80's.

First of all the Basic D&D box set in the mid-late 70s.

Then I wrote my own RPG which was a SF adventure set on a generation ship that over the centuries had degenerated into a mixture of primitive superstition and bits of leftover high tech. This was similar to Metamorphosis Alpha, though I didn't know about that game at the time, and in fact was inspired by Robert Heinlein's novel Orphans of the Sky.

Then I got Tunnels & Trolls, RuneQuest and Traveller.

Counting all the different RPG rules I've owned over the years including the ones I've lost or got rid of, I've had about 45 different RPGs though many of them were never played.

In fact right now I think I own only 12 different games. All the rest have been lost over the years through a variety of causes including leaving them behind when moving house, selling them, and being eaten by snails.

It's a great trip down memory lane just to list them out.

Stormbringer or Warhammer FRP - I can't recall which

D&D 3.5. Good lord we got so much wrong in that first game. Was definitely a lot of fun though.

I;m an old timer, i guess. D&D in the early summer of 1977.

My last RPG was Battlelords of the 23rd century. This game came at the very last days of our group being togeather. We were all kind of going our own ways, and thats kinda sad. But i thought battlelords was a really good scifi RPG.


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 Stormonu wrote:
D&D Holmes (with the chits). They had pictures from Gencon (I think) following the wake of the college guy that got lost int the "steam pipes" incident and I asked for the game for Christmas (It was a wonder my dad didn't say no, considering how it got on the news in the first place). I also remember my dad taking me back to the toy store to get the dice for the game, the d20 was numbered 0-9 twice and I could never keep straight what was "+10".

Unfortunately, the game was too advanced for me at the time (I was in 4th grade), so I didn't really learn the rules until the Red Box/Moldvay set came out. Until then, I just made things up as according to what I "felt" was right - and played with the minis I had (grenadier monster set, painted with testor's enamels and that cheap "toothbrush" the paints come with...).

Funny you mentioned GRENADIER...A friend and I lived right down the road for the company and we used to ride our bikes down there and talk to Andy.
He gave us a boatload of free figures. I think just to get rid of us kids.

Man. Getting old sucks...