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

[Reynard]

This is a non-scientific poll.

 

[Deset Gled]

Star Wars WEG was my first real game. Learning about all these weird things like levels and classes was a major shift when I switched over.

 

[Belen]

I started with Werewolf. The GM ran one session and moved to 2e.

I played D&D exclusively from 93-2003 when I started doing the ENW NC game days. I played a lot of systems since.

 

[Distracted DM]

A few months is about right... we played whatever the DM was running, which was a great variety of things. Warhammer Fantasy 1e might've been the second thing, except iirc it was a WH40k hack for WHFantasy :'D

 

[Gradine]

Started with D&D, was introduced maybe a year or two later to games like Mechwarrior and WEG D6 Star Wars. Didn't really end up playing much of non D&D-games until several decades later, in my 30's, when I started messing around with games like Monsters of the Week and Masks and Dread.

 

[BruceWright]

Hard to answer, as I started playing D&D in the 1970s. There weren't other options right away. The "other" games were Monopoly, Risk, Sorry, etc.

 

[overgeeked]

I started in 1984 with B/X and quickly switched to AD&D. My brothers were collectors and already had TSR's Top Secret and Star Frontiers along with other games. It wasn't even months before I grabbed up whatever I could find at the local game store. FASA's Star Trek RPG and TSR's Marvel Super Heroes were two of my first purchases. Played the living hell out of both.

 

[CleverNickName]

A couple of years for me.

I first started playing D&D in 6th grade, with the red box rules. It wasn't my agenda or anything, and it's not like I wasn't willing to try other games...it's just that most eleven-year-olds don't have the resources or opportunity to do so. Especially those of us who lived in small rural towns in the American South.

Once I was in high school, someone invited me to play a game of GURPS (it was the height of the Satanic Panic, so non-D&D games were the only ones that a lot of us could get away with playing). GURPS was popular at my school because while it wasn't technically D&D, it was generic enough to be played like D&D and didn't use "funny-looking" dice that would get us ratted out.

 

[R_J_K75]

14 years. I started playing D&D/AD&D in 1983. I don't think it was until 1997 when Alternity came out that I played anything else. I've played quite a few since though.

 

[Cadence]

Put a couple of years. Started B/X in 6th grade ('81) and gradually morphed into AD&D. Within a year or two of that tried OG Gamma World (fairly long running campaign with the usual friends; using a used copy) and then Star Frontiers (with my sister; new copy). I'm not sure I ever played Villains and Vigilantes more than a session, although we certainly made up characters. Same for Champions and Traveller.