Your first RPG purchase, in pictures

[Sacrosanct]

What was the first RPG/RPG tangent purchase you ever made? Preferably in pictures.

It was a store in Ketchikan Alaska. The store didn't sell many blister packs or boxed sets. They opened all the boxes and sold the minis individually in a jeweler's glass display case. The mini above (barbarian), I paid $.79 for. Only later did I figure out it came out of the following blister pack:

 

[payn]

I got several AD&D and 2E gifts as a kid. I didnt really get into things until 3E though and my first personal purchase was the core rulebook trio pack.

 

[billd91]

I purchased this bad boy at my local Waldenbooks (and by local I mean 20 miles from home).

 

[SkidAce]

1983 red Box. Stand-in picture (mine is buried in storage).

 

[SkidAce]

Mine had the solid pale blue color in the numbers dice though.

 

[aco175]

I recall the local Walmart precursor called The Fair had a shelf with mostly books and modules where we bought some things with money from the paper route. We would go to the city once a month or so with my father and go to the specialty book store (Fabulous Fiction) to get minis and dice and such. I recall my father letting us kids pick something out, but I think one of my first purchases was the Under Illefarn adventure.

I have this box still on my shelf and even some of the figures. I'm guessing I received it for Christmas though. Not my actual box or figures.

 

[TwoSix]

First RPG-adjacent purchase, as it was what got me into RPGs later on.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I recall the local Walmart precursor called The Fair had a shelf with mostly books and modules where we bought some things with money from the paper route. We would go to the city once a month or so with my father and go to the specialty book store (Fabulous Fiction) to get minis and dice and such. I recall my father letting us kids pick something out, but I think one of my first purchases was the Under Illefarn adventure.

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I have this box still on my shelf and even some of the figures. I'm guessing I received it for Christmas though. Not my actual box or figures.

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Cool! I still have the aforementioned mini. Although, with the shift in scale minis have done, he looks less like an imposing barbarian and more like angry child…

 

[Enkhidu]

I have this box still on my shelf and even some of the figures. I'm guessing I received it for Christmas though. Not my actual box or figures.

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I remember that box! Used those figs for years back in the late 80's / early 90's until they got displaced by the later Ral Patha / RAFM minis.

 

[Bae'zel]

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1e, softcover

My mother at the time was very much fallen into the "Satanic Panic" hysteria, so she refused to allow me to get into D&D.

My friends and I were playing Warhammer at the time, and found out about this. I insisted to her that it wasn't D&D at all. Somehow I got permission to spend my saved-up allowance and birthday cash on it (thanks Grandma!).

I had a bit of a panic attack though, when I first read the Daemonology and Necromancy spell descriptions. Couldn't leave this book out for her perusal, that's for sure.