Profiling In Reverse

[Christoffer Lernö]

I don't know if this is interesting to the rest of you, but... well reading the profiling I felt like asking the similare questions but kinda the other way around:

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

(hmm, do I start or?)

[jburneko]

Okay, I'll play.


What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

OD&D (Red Box), Cyberpunk (at my first con), Chill (at my first con)

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

The MOST?  Hmmm...  Well, that game that started with the OD&D ran all the way through 2nd Edition AD&D.  I played Chill for about a year.  Then I played Deadlands for about a year.  

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

Chill (Of, course!  Mysteries work just fine.  Now I don't have to draw those stupid maps!)

Story Engine (I used it as the basis for Isolation)

Sorcerer

Jesse

[Paul Czege]

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

1. blue book D&D, which gradually became AD&D with the incremental publication of the hardcover books in the early 80's and a pick and choose attitude toward the rules
2. Boot Hill
3. DragonQuest

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

1. AD&D, hands down
2. Stalking the Night Fantastic
3. Vampire

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

1. Vampire (negative influence)
2. The Pool, using relationship maps and Kickers from Sorcerer (positive influence)
3. Theatrix (positive influence)

Paul

[Clinton R. Nixon]

Awesome questions, Pale Fire.

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

AD&D 1st Edition, Twilight: 2000 (first game I ran, and one of my favorites to this day), Rolemaster.

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (15 months), Werewolf: the Apocalypse (9 months, but twice a week), D&D3E (a bit over a year).

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

Geez, this is a hard one. Narrowing it down to three is difficult, and the three I come up seem odd:
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - the grittiness, easiness (seriously - this is the easiest traditional FRPG I know of), and sheer fun of the game brought about by color all influenced me greatly.
Sorcerer - You knew I had to say that one. Seriously, though, the idea that every attribute of the character is directly tied to something important influenced me. I try hard not to make any attribute of a character unimportant to the game.
Unknown Armies - this one's from left field, but it was the first game I played that (a) let me make up my own abilities, (b) had the moral ambiguity I liked, and (c) actually reminded me of literature I'd read.

[J. Backman]

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

Not sure about the order, but the first three were definitely RuneQuest, Middle-Earth RPG and Pendragon.

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

Probably RuneQuest, CyberPunk 2000 and Paranoia.

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

The Pool, because it was the first game I came across that gave narrative power to the players -- Amber, because it was the first game I played that didn't use any dice -- RuneQuest because Glorantha is the most unique game world I've ever seen.

[lumpley]

First:
AD&D
Shadowrun
Cyberpunk

Longest:
Ars Magica
Cyberpunk
... Talislanta maybe?  Shadowrun?  Dunno.

Most Influential:
Ars Magica
Over the Edge
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

I'd say.

-Vincent

[Gordon C. Landis]

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

1. White-box D&D
2. Metamorphosis Alpha
3. En Garde!

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

1. D&D
2. Talislanta
3. Melee/Wizard/TFT

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

1. Way Back (and kinda GM-focused) - Huge influence from Greg Costikiyan's Swords & Sorcery boardgame on our D&D play.  It opened up the idea of building (focused but generic) story and having a "campaign world" orientation for us before straight RPG products did.
2. Middle years (and mostly as player-desire) - Melee/Wizard/TFT, a big influence toward lighter, more focused rules.  Plus they had solo books at a time when I kept running into the very WORST of gamer culture.
3. Recently (and as designer-oriented as I can be without a finished design) - An easy answer is "The Forge", but if you push me - "Hero Wars," seen as only my experience at the Forge allowed me to see it.

Gordon

[Michael S. Miller]

First Three
D&D -- I don't know the box color or anything, as it was my cousin who was running my through a dungeon. I was 8 years old.
Marvel Super Heroes (Basic Set) -- that bright yellow box was the first RPG I owned.
Star Wars (1st Edition WEG)

Longest three
MAGE: the Ascension -- 2 non-consecutive semesters at college, then a year off, then 2 1/2 years, solid
AD&D 2nd ed. -- 5 years of very sporadic play
TORG -- 3 years semi-regular

Most Influential
THEATRIX -- You can play without dice? You can name your own descriptors? There are more options than "You hit" or "You miss"? Cool!
Sorcerer -- it is, quite simply, a masterpiece of game design. How can one not be influenced?
FVLMINATA -- Perhaps it doesn't exactly fit the thread, but nothing will ever influence me as a designer more than the first experience of actually designing.

[ethan_greer]

Played First:
- Basic D&D
- AD&D 2nd Edition
- GURPS

Played the most:
- AD&D 2nd Edition
- GURPS
- Fudge

Most Influential:
- Basic D&D
- GURPS
- Fudge

[Enoch]

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

AD&D2E, Shadowrun, Alternity (I can't remember exactly since we would play a lot of free games that I found online back in the day when I was 13 or so).

What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

AD&D2E, Alternity, D&D3E

What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

Mage, Tribe 8, Sorcerer

-Joshua

[quozl]

First three:

Top Secret, Aliens (homebrew version), and then AD&D

Longest three:

Aliens (again, the homebrew version), TMNT, and then Deadlands

Most influential:

TMNT - everyone loves the animal creation rules
Donjon - gotta love that crazy anything-goes feel
Paranoia - the writing style just made you want to play it even if the actual system wasn't very good

[Tim C Koppang]

What were the first three role-playing games that you actually, really played?

Some crazy free-form version of AD&D
Shadowrun
MechWarrior 2nd Ed.



What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played, did you play the most/longest?

Shadowrun -- hands down
Deadlands -- I don't like admitting this, namely because I don't like Deadlands
MechWarrior 2nd Ed.

Mind you that all three of those listed above involed a hell of a lot of drift in one direction or another depending on the group's dynamic.



What three role-playing games had the most influence on you as a player, GM and designer (keep what's applicable)?

Player: InSpectres because the players get to create the story too
GM: Sorcerer, but only with the &Soul supplement because I finally understood how to directly and emotionally involve the PCs in a conflict that they don't encounter but rather are already in.  This was reinforced with Dust Devils.
Designer: Oh hell I don't know--just the whole system does matter concept really.  I guess I attribute this most directly with Sorcerer.

I'd also like to say that Story Engine has been very influencial in the way I roleplay, but I don't think I realized its implications until after reading GNS and going over some of the above listed games.

[Ron Edwards]

Hello,

Neat thread idea.

First three actually played:
D&D with no "A"
AD&D (hardcovers)
The Fantasy Trip (all versions)

Most/longest:
Champions, 3rd & 4th editions
Sorcerer (if you count multiple stories/contexts)
Hero Wars

Most influential:
as player: The Babylon Project
as GM: Sorcerer (yes, the abyss gazes back)
as designer: Over the Edge

Best,
Ron

(edited because I didn't initially realize you're supposed to provide three titles for the second question)

[wyrdlyng]

1st Three:
Basic D&D
Star Frontiers
Marvel Superheroes

Longest/Most Played:
D&D (3rd Ed)
Shadowrun (1st through 3rd Ed)
Champions (4th Ed)

Most Influential:
Marvel Superheroes
Inspectres
Everway

[Demonspahn]

Hi.  OK, here goes,


First three played:
-D&D, red book, blue book (sounds like Dr. Seuss)
-AD&D hardbacks
-Dragonquest (my first non-D&D game that was still D&D)
                 

Most/longest:
-AD&D 1st blend to 2nd E
-VtM
-WtA


Most influential:
-player: Ravenloft/Masque of the Red Death, I _love_ that setting
-GM: VtM
-designer: Star Wars, because I started going cross-genre with remote worlds, which eventually led to the Dreamwalker concept.  :)

Pete