The first RPG I saw was "Advanced" Dungeons & Dragons 1st-edition in 1980 or so. Bought some non-acrylic plastic polyhedral dice but didn't bother buying six-sideds since they were common. Those plastic dice wore out quickly along the edges! But since the secrets of game-mastering were locked up in the Dungeon Master's Guide and I only had a Player's Handbook, I bought some games for myself. The STAR FRONTIERS science-fiction RPG was a box that gave away a lot of secrets of play for the beginner, for only US$10. It was sold in regular bookstores, flung far and wide, so it had to have explanations in case the person who bought it would be the only one around running it. That's how I REALLY got my start for the whole RPG deal! It also had a FAST combat system able to handle melee and ranged weapons, vehicle combat and aerial combat all in the same six-second turns, all using percentile rolls (2 d10s included, again the pre-acrylic plastic and a crayon included so that you inked the numbers on the dice yourself!) The current fan-based edition is downloadable, for FREE. Download "Alpha Dawn" (the initial rules set) and much more stuff from this page, as well as the excellent STAR FRONTIERSMAN fan magazine. Also around is the FRONTIER EXPLORER magazine on DriveThruRPGs. <a href="http://www.dwdstudios.com/sfdrdownloads" rel="nofollow">http://www.dwdstudios.com/sfdrdownloads</a>