What was your 2nd RPG?

[Ahzad]

So I'm enjoying my day off watching Youtube videos about gaming history and the like, and prepping for Saturday's game and a question popped into my mind. What was your 2nd RPG?

I started with D&D B/X in 1980, and then jumped into Advanced pretty quickly after that, never going past the expert set. I consider all that D&D and therefor my first RPG.

My 2nd RPG was Man, Myth, and Magic by Yaquinto Publications it had just come out so it would have been sometime in 1982 when I got a chance to play it. I was still a player back then, not having graduated to my current status of forever DM. I can still remember the Roman centurion on the cover, with an Egyptian priestess behind him and Stonehenge above them. I can't remember anything about the game itself other than that image and the name. I took a quick break to google the game and to my surprise it's on Drivethru RPG. I may have to pick it up for nostalgia's sake, and the cover is exactly like I remember, with few other elements that I had forgotten.

 

[Celebrim]

Gamma World 3e

 

[Elvish Lore]

Palladium Fantasy RPG. We moved on from boxed set D&D pretty early as we just didn't think it was all that interesting... meanwhile Palladium Fantasy had a ton more of evocative classes and better art.

 

[Nikosandros]

Rolemaster, played not too long after beginning with D&D. Probably it was 2nd Edition (not revised), but might have been 1st. I didn't have the manuals yet.

 

[payn]

Classic Traveller with the LBBs.

 

[MGibster]

AD&D. I might have played something from Palladium or even GURPs before playing AD&D.

 

[Umbran]

AD&D was my second RPG.

Tunnels and Trolls was my first.
Marvel Super Heroes (FASERIP) was my third.

 

[pawsplay]

Counting D&D as one thing, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, I think, followed rapidly by Gamma World and GURPS.

 

[JML]

B/X D&D was first for me, which melded into AD&D (we were kids: Basic, Expert, then Advanced made a sort of sense to us and we shoveled it all together). Think Traveller would have been next? But once we made the leap to playing something other than D&D we tried everything we could get our hands on, so being sure it was Traveller and not trying to figure out Bushido or taking a run at James Bond...pretty sure it was Traveller though with the LBB's.

 

[Alas]

Shadowrun. I was of limited means as a kid, and usually committed every spare bit of allowance to D&D, so branching out and getting Shadowrun was a big deal for me. But... modern magic! Cyberware! Seattle! (So exotic to a Hoosier.) I couldn't resist.

Oops, no! Misremembered because I'm old. It was the Doctor Who roleplaying game-- the old box set with Tom Baker and Leela on the cover. Only ever ran a couple sessions, but it was fun because we used museum guides instead of dungeon maps-- a novel change for us at the time.