White Box OD&D. I actually played a fair amount of it with friends, then switched to AD&D. At some point I became much more disenchanted with the entire system than I can really justify today. I look back and laugh at myself more for the effort I spent ripping the game to shreds in the 80's, than for the fun I had playing it in the 70's.

Quote from: jswa;248013I'm sure there's probably been a thread like this before, but oh well.

What game did you play when you were introduced to RPGs? Do you look back on that ruleset fondly and with a hearty dose of nostalgia? Or do you laugh at yourself?

I started with red Box D&D, and I still like the game. As others have said, not a bit of nostalgia. I can play it again whenever I please. I could have nostalgia for other things than the rules, excepto for the fact that my life keeps being better every year.

I started off with Holmes Basic back in '82. Me and the guys had tons of fun with it, before moving onto AD&D. I have fond memories of it, and would like to pick up an old copy, so I can check it out again....

I started with the dark eye back when I was six or so, maybe a bit older.
The game system is crap for my gaming-style and the world is too detailed for meaningful world building exercises, looking back at it I don't feel the slightest bit nostalgic about the system or the sheer amount of setting they created, just happy that I found stuff that suits me better.
I however feel nostalgic about the days when we would spent some holiday week basically gaming 19-24 hours a day and just having a good time. I miss the days of "no responsibilities".

The first rpg I played was D&D.  It was a mishmash of Basic and AD&D we ran using my friend's older brother's books.  It was a lot of fun.

The first rpg I owned was TMNT&Other Strangeness.  I still own it, as well as all the supplements.  I guess that answers of question of "do you still like it" since most of the rpgs I've acquired in the many years since have been let go in various purges, but I still have my original TMNT stuff.  The palladium rules in general take a little bit longer for character creation then I prefer currently, but TMNT is better at that then most palladium games because for the most part PCs don't have a ton of skills.  The BIO:E system is still one of the coolest character generation thingamabobs out there, and I've got a persistent and growing itch to run a game of TMNT soon.

Holmes Edition D&D, circa 1979.

Very close to me, Colonel. Did you have dice or chits?

Quote from: droog;248289Very close to me, Colonel. Did you have dice or chits?

Dice. Really, really shitty dice that we bought at a toy store. The Holmes edition I had (and still have) was just the rulebook, not the box. I dunno why they sold it like that. At the time, I had no idea there was supposed to be a box.

I keep forgetting the Colonel and you (droog) are old timers - dice or chits ?

I started off with RQ (can't remember the edition) and then converted the campaign to BECM D&D.

Regards,
David R

I played some random D&D adventure once when I was quite young, but I started roleplaying with Shadowrun in 1989, and haven't stopped.

Quote from: droog;248289Very close to me, Colonel. Did you have dice or chits?

And to me. I used chits until I got sick of them and bought dice. I don't remember what version it was - whatever was current in late 1977. I gave my copy away back in the late seventies when I was running AD&D 1e. I kept my Traveller LBBs though.

-clash

Quote from: ColonelHardisson;248288Holmes Edition D&D, circa 1979.

Almost the exact same - might have been 1978. I had dice - with numbers you could not read and the d20 was 0-9 twice, IIRC.

Quote from: James J Skach;248351Almost the exact same - might have been 1978. I had dice - with numbers you could not read and the d20 was 0-9 twice, IIRC.

The dice I had - and also still have - were actually inked (which was fairly unusual back then, I later found out), but were very badly made, with cheap plastic. The d12s are especially bad, with most facets of them slightly convex and dimples here and there. All the dice in the sets that I (and the other guys I gamed with) had then began to wear and chip at the edges and corners almost immediately. Oh, yeah - there were also no d10s to be had. We didn't have any for quite a while. We simply rolled a d20 numbered 0-9.

TRAVELLER,  the classic version, Little Black Books.  First RPG 'campaign' I was in that ran more than 4 sessions.  It was at a High School gaming club around 1979 -1980.



- Ed C.

Quote from: jswa;248013What game did you play when you were introduced to RPGs? Do you look back on that ruleset fondly and with a hearty dose of nostalgia? Or do you laugh at yourself?

OD&D without supplements. Greyhawk came out about the time I played in first game of D&D, but I did not see it in a store for a while after that.  It's still a great game to play. IMHO.