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What was your first ttrpg product? (sopuli.xyz)

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Was wondering about this and how it might not be the same as ones first system played. (let's not count general dice or battle maps etc. this time)

For me it might be either Mouse Guard 2e boxed set or DnD 5e Tomb of Annihilation book.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I started with Robotech, then I worked up to Rifts, and Shadowrun. I didn't jump onto the fantasy-only train until Stranger Things got a bunch of my peeps into TTRPGs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I was gifted a D&D Monster Manual Core III. Found the pictures and descriptions interesting. Stat blocks were gibberish in my ignorant eyes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

friend had the boxed basic dnd where race was a class so you could be the fighter, cleric, magic user, thief, dwarf, or elf. something like that. Im not sure we were not even playing it right. I swear star frontiers may have been the second one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That I owned personally, I think it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. If not that, then it was Palladium Fantasy RPG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I bought a boxed D&D module, not knowing it didn't come with the actual rules for D&D. So then I had to get the rule books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I got the D&D 3e books when I was a kid. I completely, deeply, uncritically loved them. Read them cover to cover. Spent a lot of time drawing nonsense dungeon maps and coming up with terrible ideas.

I remember I went to some game shop in some local mall and asked the guy for advice. He was like, "yeah i don't know, but that guy's into it" and pointed me to some customer who was a mega D&D nerd. He was surprisingly patient with my youthful excitement. I remember being like "So I can just... do anything in the game? I can be like, you kill the orc and his eyes are magic??" The guy was like ... i can't remember exactly what he said, but it was something like "You can, but probably don't spend a lot of time on minutia. You probably don't want your players spending 30 minutes checking every single trinket and orc body part for secret magic."

I don't really like D&D/its close relatives much anymore, but like many people it was my entry point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Call of Cthulhu sourcebook (Ed 5.6.1) and a set of dice. Bought from a little shelf of RPG books at my local comic book shop. Was also the first system I played.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set

Don't know what revision, though.

goes looking through cover art of different revisions

I believe it was the 1983 revision.