Which rpg got you hooked?

[Arilyn]

Which rpg got you addicted to the hobby? Doesn't necessarily need to be the first one you played. DnD was my first experience....and I didn't like it at all. But then I played the first edition of Warhammer. GM was running "The Enemy Within", and that was it, gamer for life.

Warhammer is the game I look at through rose coloured lenses. Clunky rules? Warts? Not that I can remember....

 

[fjw70]

Moldvay Basic D&D. My first and it was enough to get hooked.

 

[Shasarak]

Frank Mentzer Red Box for me.

 

[nightwind1]

A tie: Traveller and Tunnels and Trolls.

 

[Ath-kethin]

First edition Earthdawn whetted my appetite, but it was 2nd Edition AD&D that became my passion. I still miss those days of endlessly tinkering with the roughly 500 different subsystems that made everything sort of jive together.

 

[Yaztromo]

My first was the Red Box... more recently Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e (the speed and simplicity that I need in these days as I can play only seldom and therefore mostly one offs, so I don´t want to waste time creating characters that I won´t have time to play or dealing with rules lawyers and heavy rules)... and even more recently I´m having quite a lot of fun with Savage Worlds...

 

[Tony Vargas]

D&D Basic Set, c1979 ('Holmes,' apparently), followed by AD&D, which clinched it.

 

[billd91]

Holmes basic got me my start and hooked me. AD&D, Traveller, and Villains and Vigilantes followed shortly thereafter.

 

[Majestic]

AD&D, I suppose, though TOP SECRET was the first one I played heavily.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

AD&D, quickly followed by Traveller. Then Champions as soon as it was published.