What was your 2nd RPG?

[dbm]

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.

 

[amethal]

Counting BECMI and AD&D 1e as the same game, my second RPG was Call of Cthulhu (3rd edition, I think).

 

[Distracted DM]

Warhammer Fantasy 1e hacked into a Warhammer 40k dark heresy game before dark heresy was a thing

 

[GreyLord]

That was over 45 years ago (almost 50 years ago I suppose by some counts).

I have no idea. I don't recall what my second RPG was. Seriously, I haven't the foggiest.

It may have been Holmes...but that's still D&D. I may have tried Traveler or Tunnels and Trolls, but I did not own the rules to them.

I never really got invested in Traveler if that was the case, but we did try out some Science Fiction RPG. It was the DM running it, not I.

The first Sci-Fi RPG I got rules for was Star Frontiers and that was years (like many years I think) later. I also got Gamma World. I am unsure when I got that one. It may have been prior to Star Frontiers initially. It was kind of Clunky at first. I think I got the second edition as well, and then the third edition after that, so I supposed I had a thing for Gamma World. I still have either 1st or 2nd edition somewhere I think, as well as maybe 4th edition?

Loved Omega World, and still have copies of the 6th edition as well that I can easily locate.

Ah, I know what one could be...nah...that is not an RPG, but Star Fleet Battles was a thing. It had a way we could play a campaign (but it was far different than the Federation and Empire that came years afterwards if I recall right).

I don't know. After Holmes was AD&D, but that's also D&D. Probably one of the aforementioned ones I stated above or Runequest. I remember the Runequest box at least.

However, the second RPG I actually owned that was not D&D probably was in the 80s, so awhile after I was introduced to D&D (and I didn't even own the rules to D&D when I was first introduced, I didn't get the rules till later anyways). I'm not clear what it was. Probably Star Frontiers or Gamma World (both still TSR games). I did borrow Fantasy Wargaming from the University Library quite a bit in the early 80s, and though that was one weird book, I enjoyed it at the time.

In the Mid 80s I tried the non-TSR RPG which was Powers and Perils. That was a different type of RPG. I have fond memories of that as well. I think I got Middle Earth Roleplaying around the same time, which eventually led to Rolemaster. Interestingly enough, I did not try out Rolemaster when it first came out and didn't really try it till it had been out for a while.

So, I don't really know. I was probably introduced to other RPGs, but as it was the DM running them I don't rightly know which ones they were.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Original Gamma World. Then Traveler and Star Frontiers.

 

[AnotherGuy]

BECMI - 2e - Vampire the Masquerade - Rolemaster (after that it is a blur)

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Traveller LBBs.

 

[cranberry]

My 2nd TTRPG was Star Frontiers by TSR.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

My first rpg was Grailquest
My 2nd rpg was Fighting Fantasy
My 3rd rpg was D&D
My 4th rpg was GURPS
My 5th rpg was Rifts

so yeah My journey took me to some wierd places.

 

[dragoner]

First and second are I think I played Melee in Chess Club, and then my sister got me to play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. First I bought was the AD&D Player's Handbook, and second was either Melee, Wizard, or the Holmes Basic D&D. The Dungeon Master's Guide didn't exist yet.