What was your 2nd RPG?

[dbolack]

Fairly certain it was Champions (3rd)

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Chill.

 

[Oryzarius]

Classic Traveller was my second (after AD&D). I still remember leaving my mother shopping to head for the back shelves in the San Diego Naval Exchange in case a new Little Black Book had come out....

I'm not sure which of Gamma World (1e) or Tunnels and Trolls came third, but those had to be solo play since no-one else was really keen to try them. Runequest (3e) was a bit later, along with its BRP cousins like Ringworld. Then Shadowrun (1e).

It wasn't until college that I ran across my favorite, GURPS (3e); I picked up the Cyberpunk genre book as inspiration for my Shadowrun campaign, then saw and immediately bought the Uplift worldbook, and only then picked up the Basic Set.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The correlation of Runequest/Traveller answers and gray hair (or no hair) has to be off the charts.

 

[Greg K]

It was either Boot Hill 2e, Gamma World 1e, or Top Secret 1e. We played a few sessions of each around the same time.

 

[overgeeked]

I started in 1984 with B/X and quickly switched to AD&D. My brothers were collectors and already had TSR's Top Secret and Star Frontiers along with other games. It wasn't even months before I grabbed up whatever I could find at the local game store. FASA's Star Trek RPG and TSR's Marvel Super Heroes were two of my first purchases. Played the living hell out of both.

 

[cbwjm]

I think DnD was my send RPG, the first being the advanced fighting fantasy book, played a few good games of that with friends in high school before moving to the dnd rules cyclopedia.

 

[kronovan]

I'm no longer sure, but it was either original Traveller or Gamma World 2e. A DM at our college D&D club decided to mix those 2 into an existing AD&D 1e campaign. I know I played them both in 1984, but which got played 1st is more than my grey cells can muster. I just remember it being one heckuva of a crazy campaign, that somehow our DM pulled off. I do remember we spent far more time with Gamma World than Traveller.

 

[Cadence]

Gamma World 1e

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

If we're not counting D&D and AD&D as separate games, it's DC Heroes 2nd edition.