![]() ![]() En route to another solar system far from Earth, the Warden passes through a radiation cloud that damages its systems, kills its crew, and mutates most of its surviving passengers, as well as the Terran flora and fauna traveling with them, into monstrous forms. Written by James Ward and first published in 1976, making it, depending on one's definitions, the first science fiction roleplaying game ever published, Metamorphosis Alpha is set aboard a vast generation ship (called the Warden in a typical example of early hobby self-referential hubris/humor). To answer the follow-up question, I would play D&D before either of my 'firsts' (because I now know it better than either, especially the current edition), but again, there are other games I like better if I have my pick.Although Gamma World was (I think) the first RPG I played after Dungeons & Dragons, it was with its predecessor game, Metamorphosis Alpha, that I was obsessed for much of the early 1980s. Jokes aside, I've played plenty of D&D since first picking it up, starting with about 3.5, and while it would never be my first choice (and I'll probably never run it myself), I recognize there's plenty of fun to be had-the Dragon Heist game I'm currently playing in has been pretty awesome so far and promises to be more so in the future. The game I cut my teeth on was Shadowrun.īane voice "I didn't touch a d20 system until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but cliche!" (My Dad got it for me in the middle of the late '80's-early '90's TMNT craze and I'm not sure he knew what it was.) The first RPG I ever played was West End Games' Star Wars RPG. I read it a lot, but never got around to trying to play it. The first RPG I ever owned was Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. We have been talking about doing it again. if you have willing and involved players. But differently because it was the first.Įxtra info: I actually DMed EPT a couple of years ago for a 3-session one-off with a a few guys I have been gaming with for about 40 years, and it pretty much holds up. Thoroughly enjoyable, after al these years.Īnd to answer the second part your question, I loved the world of Tekumel in a way I could never love D&D. At least that's how it went this evening. and others I can't even remember right now.īut hey, just now, tonight, I played a bit over four hours of 5e, which I just took up a few weeks ago, and it was a great session. It was all tangled up in the next couple of years with Metamorphosis Alpha, Boot Hill, Traveler, Bushido, Arduin Grimoire, Chivalry and Sorcery, Gamma World. I became aware of D&D a few months later. ![]()
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