This year is the twentieth anniversary of 'Angus' Roleplaying Odyssey'. Little did I know on that warm August evening at my cousins in Washington State twenty years ago that I was about to start something that would pretty much dominate my life one way or another. I don't say dominate in a bad way either, I make a good living out of what is essentially still my hobby and its one of the most creative industries, and hobbies, that I've come across.
Anyway, my pending anniversary and a thread about old RPGs on another LJ users site got me thinking about the games I started with and how they compared with other peoples 'beginning steps'.
So, what were your first three RPGs and what year did you start playing?
Mine are:
Year: 1984
1. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
2. Top Secret
3. MERP (ICE)
Anyway, my pending anniversary and a thread about old RPGs on another LJ users site got me thinking about the games I started with and how they compared with other peoples 'beginning steps'.
So, what were your first three RPGs and what year did you start playing?
Mine are:
Year: 1984
1. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
2. Top Secret
3. MERP (ICE)
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Dragon Warriors
D&D (basic)
MERP (ICE)
I started Shadowrun not too much later, but them was the first three.
Basic D&D
AD&D
Traveller
I still ahve some of those books too.
D&D
Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Call of Cuthulhu
1). AD&D
2). Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
3). Paranoia
1 - n/a
2 - n/a
3 - n/a
well, not unless you count role playing in the bedroom! *wink* :D
:-p
The system was simple; the more I liked the character (or StarWars toy, or lego monster creation) the more d6 (all I had) thus the more 6s (successes) it was likely to win.
I still remember Wicket the Ewok taking out both my At-At walkers and then all three of my Darth Vader figures.
Then I found the Fighting Fantasy books and thought it would be a great idea to liberate the concept from a book and its simple plot and wrote the highly original "Fighting Myth" rules (and "Fighting Legend" rules for my little brother so he could have a game of his own!).
Er, then it was,
a) Dragon Warriors
b) Warhammer
c) MERP (quickly dumped) for Paranoia.
(There you go - ask a simple question, get an essay)
1998
1) Vampire: the Masquerade LARP
1) Werewolf: the Apocalypse TT
(No that's not a typo, I started them both on the same day!)
3) Legend of the 5 Rings
1990
1. DSA (Das Schwarze Auge, The Dark Eye), German High Fantasy RPG
2. Shadowrun
3. V:TM first edition
Top Secret
Advanced-Fighting Fantasy (It had a DM and stuff it counts)
Possibly WHFRP- but more likely AD&D
1) Toon!!!
2) Space Master
3) AD&D
my first every character was a Spitting Image puppet of Maggie Thatcher . . .
1. Runequest
2. Traveller
3. Gangbusters
1. Judge Dread
2. Paranioa
3. Shadow Run
1: Basic D&D
2: GURPS (Humanx)
3: Rifts?
AD&D
Merp
Then i got smart and stopped playing those silly games moving up to (Much later) Cyberpunk 2013 (Boxed set), CoC, and Kult
Star Frontiers
Star Ace
Since then, my tastes have grown up a bit...