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.

 

[LordEntrails]

Started in 1978, 2nd grade. I said a year or so, but don't recall specifics. We (friends, classmates, brother) bought anything we could afford as soon as we could save up. Some of our early non-D&D purchases were Runequest, Gamma World, & Star Frontiers. I think the second round included; Tunnels & Trolls, Gang Busters, Top Secret, Twighlight 2000, and ElfQuest all before AD&D came out?

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.

Actually, for the time there were a lot of games released in the 70's. But, distribution was another matter. Luckily we had a Hobby Bench that tended to carry RPGs. Wikipedia says: Empire of the Petal Throne (1974/75), Metamorphosis Alpha (1976), Traveller (1977), Chivalry & Sorcery (1977), Arduin (1977), Superhero: 2044 (1977), RuneQuest (1978), and Gamma World (1978).

Then I played Gamma World - which was really just reskinned D&D.

NO!!! You could roll up a two-headed mutant with psychic powers. It was not the same! Well, to a ten year old they were very different. But by today's enlightened standard? Yea, just flavor and some new tables.

 

[BruceWright]

Actually, for the time there were a lot of games released in the 70's. But, distribution was another matter. Luckily we had a Hobby Bench that tended to carry RPGs. Wikipedia says: Empire of the Petal Throne (1974/75), Metamorphosis Alpha (1976), Traveller (1977), Chivalry & Sorcery (1977), Arduin (1977), Superhero: 2044 (1977), RuneQuest (1978), and Gamma World (1978).

I picked up a copy of Metamorphis Alpha, which required me being old enough to be allowed to ride my bike all the way to Torrance. So that was also setting my timeframe.

 

[Bacon Bits]

I'm discounting my technical first session of Basic D&D because I didn't really play. Me and my friend rolled the attacks of the hireling archers in my friends older brothers campaign during a fight on a ship against a green dragon. I think I was 7, and I didn't even know what I was playing.

Years later I played either Basic or AD&D or an amalgam of both for a few weeks before changing to WEG Star Wars and then to Shadowrun (or vice-versa). Then it was AD&D (1e and 2e) until 3e D&D released.