What was your 1st RPG and what was your favourite campaign about or best memory?

[1QD]

So I would like to say a gracious thank you to Staffan . I watched your video the first time and found it informative. I watched it a second time, and took notes. In the spirit of that, I would like to change gears a bit.

So I am curious, what was your favourite first time RPG, and your favourite memory/campaign/event that happened in that system?

 

[stormwriter]

My first RPG was Fighting Fantasy – not the gamebooks, the actual Introductory RPG book adapting the system to standard group play.

We really didn't know what we were doing at the time. The book came with 2 full premade dungeons, and we basically played those 2 dungeons repeatedly many times with different characters trying to come up with different routes, different outcomes, better rewards, etc. It was still super fun, though, even without ever leaving the dungeon.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My first RPG was AD&D.

In 1977, I’d heard about it for months. Then someone put up a poster at my school- East Middle School (Aurora, CO)- that there was a game starting up in the library. So I joined.

It was run by a kid who could have passed for the love child of Bob Ross & a Hobbit. And he ran his table like a drill sergeant.

My human fighter with a 2HD sword was among the last 2 PCs standing with 2 rooms to go in the dungeon we were in. The other was a Wizard down to his staff and a single Magic Missile.

And then, we encountered a Purple Worm. We tried to retreat, but couldn’t get the door behind us to open, so we had to fight. The Wizard MMed the worm as it closed, then started swinging his big stick. My fighter also waded into melee.

Amusingly, the Wizard’s d20 was HOT. He kept hitting and hitting and hitting…until the worm swallowed him whole.

My d20 was cold; kept missing. But I finally got into a groove just as the worm engulfed the spellcaster. The worm & I were on our last few HP, and we got simultaneous initiative. I rolled poorly and missed; it rolled a Nat20. Game over; TPK.

I was hooked for life!

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

your favourite memory

Each and every player badly misread a deck plan, so the players as a group ran face first into a bulkhead.

(Decades later I found out that bulkhead was there for a reason.)

 

[Sacrosanct]

Basic D&D, Moldvay. Ketchikan Alaska. My older brother was running me through Palace of the Silver Princess with the module map lying between us on the ground (this will be important in a bit). I was playing a cleric.

Defeated a skeleton in a room near the start with 1 hp remaining. Was feeling good. My brother asked me which direction I wanted to go. I said "left", because my left was the door. My brother's left was the wall.

He replied, "You run into the wall and take 1 hp of damage."

I was dead. He was unrelenting in the ruling.

I was hooked.

 

[Black Dougal]

AD&D. I was able to join a middle school D&D club, ironically not in my school district and I was not in middle school yet. I moved a lot as a kid and had few friends until I joined the club, 2 of the players and I ended up being life long friends and we still game.

The DM was great and ran us through A1 through A4 for the school year. I was instantly hooked. My 2nd best campaign memory is playing Beyond the Magic Mirror. Good times.

 

[aramis erak]

So I would like to say a gracious thank you to Staffan . I watched your video the first time and found it informative. I watched it a second time, and took notes. In the spirit of that, I would like to change gears a bit.

So I am curious, what was your favourite first time RPG, and your favourite memory/campaign/event that happened in that system?

My first RPG was AD&D 1e. Which I abandoned — I have few positive memories from AD&D 1e. I found BX far superior... no gygaxian spew, no gygaxian anti-player screeds masquerading as rules...

My favorite memory of it? Quitting it.