Which rpg got you hooked?

[aramis erak]

Which rpg got you addicted to the hobby? Doesn't necessarily need to be the first one you played.

Classic Traveller. Ref was Rick Singleton, Chugiak High Class of 1984... Starting sept. 1983...

D&D was my first, and yes, I was kind of hooked then, but Traveller is the one that set it firmly.

DnD was my first experience....and I didn't like it at all. But then I played the first edition of Warhammer. GM was running "The Enemy Within", and that was it, gamer for life.

Warhammer is the game I look at through rose coloured lenses. Clunky rules? Warts? Not that I can remember....

The rules aren't clunky. The warts are mostly on the illos. WFRP 1 is some of the smoothest running of the late 80's.
THere are a few bits that are hard on modern gamers - but for them, there's 2E or 3E WFRP...

 

[Arilyn]

Classic Traveller. Ref was Rick Singleton, Chugiak High Class of 1984... Starting sept. 1983...

D&D was my first, and yes, I was kind of hooked then, but Traveller is the one that set it firmly.


The rules aren't clunky. The warts are mostly on the illos. WFRP 1 is some of the smoothest running of the late 80's.
THere are a few bits that are hard on modern gamers - but for them, there's 2E or 3E WFRP...

Just mean looking back, I reluctantly realize that it has some problems...Still a cool game, but a bit rough. But I had so much fun, and gotta love the career system. What other game lets you start as a rat catcher or carriage driver?

 

[Blue]

Frank Mentzer Red Box for me.

Red box for me as well.

 

[cmad1977]

Red box


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[ccs]

Moldvay Basic D&D. My first and it was enough to get hooked.

Yup.

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Dioltach]

Het Oog des Meesters, the Dutch translation of the first edition of Das Schwarze Auge. I've recently picked it up again, and my group is having a blast.

 

[Jhaelen]

I had already been hooked before I played my first 'real' RPG. It was the 'Fighting Fantasy' books that started it all.
Then 'The Dark Eye' was published in Germany, but back then I was still struggling with the concept of roleplaying.
Shortly after I joined a group playing AD&D, and through them got into a roleplaying club where I quickly learned about all the polular RPGs.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

The Hero Quest board game from Hasbro hooked us enough that we began to develop homerules to make it more like an RPG until we finally decided to not spend the effort and started playing 2nd Edition AD&D. And the rest is history.