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

[GameDaddy]

Couple Months. Played D&D first during Christmas Break of 1977, and around February/March 1978 picked up Traveller.

 

[Micah Sweet]

This is a non-scientific poll.

The first non-D&D RPG I ever played was Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, followed closely by TSR's Marvel Superheroes. Other popular non-D&D games I played (for short or long), include Cyberpunk 2020, MERP, Deadlands, DC Heroes, Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1e), Call of Cthulhu, Chill, 7th Sea (1e), and Legend of the Five Rings (1e to 4e). We always and frequently came back to D&D, however.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

We started with Holmes box D&D, with the AD&D Monster Manual for monsters (I don't think the PHB had been released, or at least at age 12 we hadn't sourced it yet). I know by high school I owned the Traveller LBBs; but I don't recall ever actually playing it in a group - but do remember having a ton of lonely fun making sectors and ships. Then I took a break during college (wasted years, in multiple senses of the word "wasted). When I got back into gaming working at a comic shop in the early 90's, it was pretty quick that we tried other games. It might have been 1e Shadowrun. So maybe I'll land on 15 years or so? depends on whether we consider that lonely fun to be "trying another game"