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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chaochou" data-source="post: 8102773" data-attributes="member: 99817">I started playing in about 1978-79. I remember the release of the DMG and the combat tables being in White Dwarf beforehand. I was going to a gaming club at the time, and there was a table of D&D with younger players and always a table of Runequest with older kids. Then ad hoc games - I remember playing Boot Hill, Yaquinto's Swashbuckler, Chitin.By 1982-3 I (and most people I knew) were playing RQ. People knew about Traveller, and Call of Cthulhu was gaining followers.  A White Dwarf readers survey around the time had the top 3 games as D&D, Traveller, Runequest. Traveller got a regular column in WD from about issue 15, I think. Runequest didn't get its Runerites column until around issue 30 or so.I moved around the country several times in the 1980s, and there was always D&D & RQ happening, and Cthulhu was a staple for one-shots or minicampaigns. Other things came and went - WHFRP, Jorune, Judge Dredd, MERP, Twilight 2000, Pendragon, Bushido, Privateers & Gentlemen, Flashing Blades, T&T, Toon, Paranoia.I never saw much evidence of Traveller actually being played. I was one of many that admired they system, loved the design, loved the graphical look and feel of the products and yet I don't recall play, or even hearing friends talking about it.</blockquote>