What was your 2nd RPG?

[Willie the Duck]

Started in '82-83. First one I got to play was one a 'big kid' (probably 10) had, so undoubtedly B/X (unless they had an old Homes set from an older sibling). Then went out and bought a first printing Mentzer Set (B and E). Still had the thief advancement from BX and a few other things later BECMI prints didn't, but I doubt any of the rules differences mattered.

Since all of that smeared into one unholy chain stretching back to that original BX (or B) set all the way through 1e and 2e, you could count all of A/D&D as a single unit. In that case, the second would be Traveller or GURPS or Aftermath. Not sure what the order was.

 

[Bravesteel25]

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.

The first RPG we (my friend and I) ever played after D&D 3.0* was WFRPG 1st Edition, but we mainly did a few one shots of it as we were huge into Warhammer Fantasy Battles at the time.

My real second RPG, where we actually played what would be considered a campaign, was Mongoose Traveller. It was certainly a breath of fresh air from a genre perspective but we quickly reverted back to D&D as it was a genre we were more familiar with overall.

*We really started on the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game boxed set with the silver TSR logo, so a simplified AD&D 2nd Edition, but we basically just played through that box several times before 3.0 hit the shelves at our local book store.

 

[Evaniel]

Marvel Super Heroes (TSR) was my second game.

Big same.

 

[GuyBoy]

My first was OD&D in late 1976.
As to my second; memory is a bit hazy, but it was either Chivalry & Sorcery or the short-lived UK game Bifrost. I certainly preferred Bifrost to C&S.
Gamma World followed soon after.

 

[mserabian]

So OD&D was first but I never could figure out how to play it (so not sure if that counts). Followed by 1 game of AD&D and 1 game of Holmes Basic. Then second would be Champions(1st ed)...- but really in my mind Champions is my 1st rpg, since its the first one I actually played in a regular weekly campaign. That would then make Call of Cthulhu my second RPG...

 

[1QD]

I invented my own system. I still play it today.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My beard is almost all grey and white, but the hair on top of my head is still all brown. Runs in Mom’s family - she’s 95 and has less than 10 grey hairs.

It gives you a good wizardly air.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

MERP

Still the most fun game name to say.

 

[Reynard]

My brothers and I started with BECMI when my parents bought us the Basic Set. We played that for years before we discovered AD&D.
Sometime around the same time, I discovered Dragon magazine and all the ads for all the other RPGs out there. I don't remember what was first, but it was either Star Frontiers or Heroes Unlimited from Palladium. I will always love D&D, but I have never been able to be content with just D&D.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

My memory is a bit fuzzy there. It was probably Traveller, Gamma World, or Call of Cthulhu.