D&D General How Long Did You Play Only D&D Before Trying Another Game

[greymist]

I'm assuming “another game” refers to RPGs.

I started playing D&D around 1978. The next RPG I can recall playing was WEG Star Wars, in 2022.

 

[hojulation]

Technically played a few games of 2E in the late 90's, but I count my actual beginning with TTRPG's as 2012 when I started DMing a 4E campaign. Within that same year I began GMing a Dragon AGE campaign that lasted several years.

The 4E campaign then shifted to 5E in 2014 and never looked back.

 

[Ath'kethin]

I didn't start with D&D - the first TTRPG I ever played was Earthdawn (1st Edition) - but once I discovered (A)D&D(2e) a few months later I was hooked for years. This would have been ca. 1993. And while I say AD&D 2e, in truth it was a mashup of 2e, 1e, and Basic material - i didn't even realize there was a real difference between 1e and 2e until I'd been playing for a year or two.

I played other stuff alongside it; mostly World of Darkness games but also a bunch of little indie games, most of which more or less aped D&D so I'm not sure if they count, plus Toon, the original Marvel Super Heroes, and original Castle Falkenstein. The high school I attended at the time was on a college campus so I had access to all the college-aimed stores, and it ruled. I ran an Alternity game or two in the late 90s, too, while living in a different college town.

I stopped playing entirely for a few years from 2008 til 2012 ish, picking up again with Pathfinder organized play games, which again are close enough to D&D that I'm not sure it counts as a different game.