What was your first ttrpg product?
What was your first ttrpg product?
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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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.
I had a similar arc, only I was introduced to it with D&D/AD&D in the '70s.
Today I don't play D&D or any of its derivatives, though.