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<blockquote data-quote="mykesfree" data-source="post: 7849599" data-attributes="member: 61291"><p>Just to add my own personal story here. I was introduced to AD&D 1E and played one adventure with an older friend's brother. Then with my own age group friends we played Basic, and my parents bought the Basic Red Box set for me.</p><p></p><p>Then my parents bought me the TSR Marvel Super Heroes Yellow Box set and all bets were off. My friends and I only played MSH until 1987 when WEG released the Star Wars D6 game and stuck with only that game. In 1989 when the 2e D&D books were released a friend of mine bought all of them and the FR Grey Box. Within my friends group back then, we shifted from MSH 2e, DC Heroes 1st and 2nd ed, WEG: Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Paranoia, FASA: Star Trek and Battletech. While we had a hobby store, a B&N, and a TRU, I made many purchases from the Worlds of Westfield catalog.</p><p></p><p>In the 90's Star Wars mostly won out as the game we played. We found the rules and the campaign easiest to understand and the adventures fun. </p><p></p><p>In 98, I played a couple games of CoC, but D&D didn't make a come back into my RPG life until 3E and played a demo at Dragon Con. So for 11 years, I made no D&D RPG purchases (Yes there were novels, and GOLD Boxes!)</p><p></p><p>After 3E, our group has played D&D for 4E, and 5E. We are still with 5e, but have been really enjoying the 2d20 Star Trek Adventures Game as an alternate game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mykesfree, post: 7849599, member: 61291"] Just to add my own personal story here. I was introduced to AD&D 1E and played one adventure with an older friend's brother. Then with my own age group friends we played Basic, and my parents bought the Basic Red Box set for me. Then my parents bought me the TSR Marvel Super Heroes Yellow Box set and all bets were off. My friends and I only played MSH until 1987 when WEG released the Star Wars D6 game and stuck with only that game. In 1989 when the 2e D&D books were released a friend of mine bought all of them and the FR Grey Box. Within my friends group back then, we shifted from MSH 2e, DC Heroes 1st and 2nd ed, WEG: Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Paranoia, FASA: Star Trek and Battletech. While we had a hobby store, a B&N, and a TRU, I made many purchases from the Worlds of Westfield catalog. In the 90's Star Wars mostly won out as the game we played. We found the rules and the campaign easiest to understand and the adventures fun. In 98, I played a couple games of CoC, but D&D didn't make a come back into my RPG life until 3E and played a demo at Dragon Con. So for 11 years, I made no D&D RPG purchases (Yes there were novels, and GOLD Boxes!) After 3E, our group has played D&D for 4E, and 5E. We are still with 5e, but have been really enjoying the 2d20 Star Trek Adventures Game as an alternate game. [/QUOTE]
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