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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9750384" data-attributes="member: 891">Quite a few people just simply never were on the ride, or only slightly so.I started tRPGs in a one-shot in 1980 at my cousin's but that never went anywhere and it's a side of the family I've not even seen since that day.So... in 82 two things happened. I got the D&D basic set as a birthday gift from my mother. Then maybe a month or so later I had my $5 of allowance money (that's about $50 million in today's dollars, or so it seems some times), walked into a hobby store and bought a "D&D adventure" that was in an odd sized box.That's how I ended up with my first non-D&D game. As a kid I didn't realize there were other options, but the box to 'Melee' had Conan like art so I bought it. That's also known as 'The Fantasy Trip' - and the next week I was back to get Wizard, and some time later the compiled Fantasy Trip book.These days that game's direct descendant is called GURPS. "Melee" is to GURPS what 'Chainmail' was to D&D.Sure I played a little D&D back then, but just about as much Fantasy Trip. Didn't play in a 'campaign' for D&D until 84, and that very quickly ended in an RPG horror story.There's a lot of different games out there. And having never really been 'pulled into D&D' in a way that stuck, I got to play a whole slew of them over the decades with mostly decent folks.I've also met quite a few people who've never even played D&D. Until maybe Stranger Things this hobby was so small that even though D&D was the biggest game, that ratio probably wasn't so vast.</blockquote>

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