I’m no longer sure what my second RPG after BECMI D&D would have been.
There are some contenders based on publication dates. It might have been FASA Star Trek, James Bond 007, or DC Heroes 1e. We tried all those and my memories are of playing them with my very first group when I was still in secondary school.
I remember these because while the premise of each of them was really interesting, we couldn’t really get our heads around playing them. They were each so different in concept to D&D which had a fairly understandable focus by comparison.
The next RPG which I remember taking to strongly was Dragon Warriors, which could conceivably have also been the second RPG ever for us based on publication dates. That is still my favourite retro RPG. It had the advantage of doing fantasy and dungeoneering, so conceptually similar to D&D but with very much its own style and flavour.
There are some contenders based on publication dates. It might have been FASA Star Trek, James Bond 007, or DC Heroes 1e. We tried all those and my memories are of playing them with my very first group when I was still in secondary school.
I remember these because while the premise of each of them was really interesting, we couldn’t really get our heads around playing them. They were each so different in concept to D&D which had a fairly understandable focus by comparison.
The next RPG which I remember taking to strongly was Dragon Warriors, which could conceivably have also been the second RPG ever for us based on publication dates. That is still my favourite retro RPG. It had the advantage of doing fantasy and dungeoneering, so conceptually similar to D&D but with very much its own style and flavour.
