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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9797743" data-attributes="member: 4348">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.</blockquote>

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