The D&D Thread! (and any RPG)

To be fair, it seems as if D&D was a bit of a niche at first. Growing up, we had Scrabble, Clue & Monopoly (but I never grasped how to play Monopoly so I never got into that one) and when I discovered D&D, it was only for social outcasts such as myself.

 

My wife and I started playing D&D (1st edition) only a couple months after we got married (1979.) We became part of a rapidly growing group of TTRPG'ers. In no time at all, in addition to playing D&D and AD&D, we were also playing Adventure!, Paranoia, Daredevils, Twilight 2000, Traveller, Gangbusters, FTL: 2448, Thieves' World, Gamma World, RuneQuest, Empire of the Petal Throne, Twilight 2000, 2300 AD (originally called Traveller: 2300), Albedo, and Cyberpunk 2013 (later, to become CP2020)... and all of this was just in the first TEN years! During that time, we not only played all of those, I actually had my own D&D, Traveller, and CP2020 campaigns going as well!

I was a busy bunny!

As time passed, one after the other, they all went by the wayside. Today, I'm still running a D&D 3.5 campaign, but that's it.

 

That's an impressive list!

I started with regular basic D&D in the early 1980's, tried Star Frontiers in the mid-1980's and also graduated to Advanced D&D, also tried Top Secret, Chill, Star Wars, (there was another sci-fi role-playing game but I cannot recall the name of it- I remember one of the races someone could play resembled a polar bear.) In the 90's I went with D&D 2e and a starship combat game that I also don't remember the exact name, but it involved Star Trek ships and had no role-playing; it was strictly a combat game.

Some friends of mine were heavily into Twilight 2000, but I couldn't quite get into that one. They just loved doing battle maneuvers, and I wanted more than just that.