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.
Shadowrun 1E. Yes, I am that old.
The first system I played was the D&D Next playtest but the first rpg product I bought was the Shadowrun 5e corerulebook. I never actually played it and it seems too complicated for my tastes now but I still have the book.
WEG Star Wars 2nd edition Revised and Expanded.
My roommate and I split the cost, and when we moved I kept it. It’s still one of my prized possessions.
I started a while ago when I was young with some hand-copied extract from AD&D2 copied from the notes of my friends who copied-it on photocopies from his friend with tons of house rule/homebrew at each copy.
Then, played a lot Warhammer FRPG, and finally got some money to buy Nightprowler a french game about thieves in a large city.
…1981 moldvay red box was my first product, but the first i played i think was 1977 holmes, although i don’t know for certain because i never saw my cousin’s books; in fact, i’ve been unable to identify which module he ran us through to this day…
I think it must have been Xananthar’s for D&D 5e. I’d been playing for ages, but that was the first book I wanted a physical copy of. I have a copy of the Player’s Handbook as well now, and more recently, I bought the FFXIV TTRPG, as well as the Star Trek Adventures: Lower Decks splatbook. Everything else is digital or improvised
That I owned personally, I think it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. If not that, then it was Palladium Fantasy RPG.
DnD 5e which then turned into Soulbound which then turned into a TTRPG convention when turned into backing games on Kickstarter and buying other systems.
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.
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.
Dnd 5e. It was my first system I played and then got the PhB. Then did a bunch of 3.5 and pathfinder 1e before moving back to dnd 5e. I have done most of my time in 5e but read a lot of different ttrpg that I haven’t gotten to play yet.
Fading Suns core rulebook.
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.
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.
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.
