MechaPilot
Explorer
When I stopped playing AD&D 2e, I transitioned from D&D to Palladium's games. It started early on as playing a bit of both, because I loved both the fantasy and the giant mecha genres, and because my DM at the time was interested in trying it. Over time, I essentially "left D&D for" palladium's games. I still maintained my love for fantasy gaming, and Palladium's fantasy rpg helped me scratch that itch for a quite a while. I didn't come back to D&D until partway through the run of 3e (but before 3.5e). I was still playing other games at that time: Vampire, the Battletech rpg, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer rpg in particular. I got heavily back into D&D with 4e, and remain so with 5e.