Gaming History

[selenite0]

I'm not sure when I started gaming, but a lot of the first ones I remember were published in 1977. So I may be coming up on my 30th year in the hobby. I'm trying to remember all the different role playing games I've played. Here's my guess so far:

Basic Dungeons and Dragons (blue book)
Chivalry & Sorcery 1st ed
Tunnels and Trolls 5th ed
Metamorphosis Alpha
Gamma World
Runequest 2nd ed
Monsters! Monsters!
Recon*
Starships and Spacemen
Bunnies and Burrows
Aftermath*
The Fantasy Trip
Star Trek: the RPG (FASA)
Call of Cthulhu (multiple versions)*
GURPS (including Traveller)
D&D 3.0 and 3.5*
Serenity RPG**

*only as a player, not GM
** run with GURPS rules

Comments

This is where I am NOT a geek ...

[btripp.livejournal.com]

I had friends who played D&D back when it came out. I found a certain amusement in designing worlds (especially ones with hallucinatory nightmare scenarios) but found the game play itself unappealing. Frankly that's the only thing on that list that I think I've ever seen.

I suspect this is the reason that I tend to see SecondLife as a "marketing environment" rather than the "playspace" that so many others use it for. I have an avatar that looks like me, wears (one set of) clothes that could have come out of my closet, and has only one eccentricity (he's almost never seen without a cup of coffee). This in contrast to the "trim, beautiful, and well tanned" mass of avatars, and the "furry/fantasy" avatars that are all over the place.

I wonder what it is in my psychological make-up that makes role-playing so uninteresting to me?


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Traveller and EPT

[godelescherbach.livejournal.com]

I started in 1977 with D&D, one session. It was an established group, so I was kind of left out of the action. However, while looking through the odds and ends of the college dorm room, I read Traveller and the original edition of Empire of the Petal Throne. Ah, memories!

Re: Traveller and EPT

[selenite.livejournal.com]

EPT I never played. It was an amazing setting but too much for anyone I knew to want to tackle.