"Did you start/find this hobby through RPG's " Topic

Did you start this hobby playing RPG's first?

Yes
no
What is an RPG?

Nope.

I got into miniatures for the sake of them first, then shortly after I wanted something to do with them and got into WFB.
Then later into WFRP.

All within about 6 months of each other.

Nope.

Miniature wargaming. No. I found RPGs from playing boardgames. RPGs through boardgames and we added some minis. Went to a convention to play boardgames and was drawn into the miniatures games at that point.

Nope.

Someone brought the brown box D&D to a miniatures game we were having, so the opposite.
And I got into miniatures through boardgaming.

No

Yes
Started playing the red boxed D&D back in the early 80's. Then we found that there were miniatures for the game. (we didn't know they were called miniatures. We just called them metal men).

Indirectly. I was with a group that played RPG and then we found miniature wargaming and dropped RPG.

I started playing with Airfix plastic sets back in the 1970s so no, but the old D&D RPG did have an influence on me from the late 1970s.

Started playing miniatures games then found RPGs. Started with Champions because of my love of superheros.

Started playing AD&D, then Traveller, then Twilight 2000 and Battletech. Then 40k and Warzone and it's been minigames since then.

Actually it was the miniatures that drew me into AD&D.

No. Avalon Hill games, then minis, then RPGs.

Yes, Started playing AD&D, then Battletech, and wanted miniatures with them. I was a model builder before this (yes, I started young; my dad got me snap-tite plastic models when I was 6-7), so the idea of using minis just seemed to be natural. Got into WHFB later (tangentially around 3e, but not seriously till 4e while in College). Around '98 found out about WAB. Then the internet/web forums, and discovered there really are historical wargames(!)…

Damon.

Yep, AD&D 1.0

No. The evolution went like this:

Age 4-11 = Green plastic armymen (Set 'em up, then knock 'em down)
Age 12 = Discovered board games (Panzerblitz)
Age 13 = Discovered miniatures (1/72 scale WWII tanks and Minifigs midievals, all with home-brew rules)
Age 14-15 = Briefly dabbled in RPGs but it dind't stick (Old school D&D + Chivalry and Sorcery)
Age 16-25 = The pursuit of alcohol and women (almost no wargaming at all during this period)
Age 26 = Lured back into board games (Raid on St Nazaire, followed closely by ASL)
Age 26 = Lured back into miniatures (ACW, I think, with Johnny Reb rules)
Age 27 = Discovered computer games (Civilization)

No.
1/72nd scale plastics as a kid.

Then in college:
first AH and SPI games,
then TSR's Tricolor, Microarmor, Starguard and mor plastics,
Then D&D, Engarde, C&S, RQ and Traveller with some miniatures.

Full scale miniatures gaming only became possible after the army in the early 80's.

Nope.

No

No.

Like a number of others here, I started out with boardgames (back in the '50s), moved on to miniatures, and have dabbled with RPGs off and on since then.

LT

No and yes:

No – I was already into minature war gaming with plastic.

Yes – It got me into 25mm lead.

Nope

Yes. I played D&D, AD&D and all of TSR's other games back in the 80's. I found this site several years ago when looking for character minis for Twilight 2000.

Sttarted with a game of D &D …then my friend pulled out the miniatures . That was all she wrote

No.
I came into it from the toy angle… always having liked any sort of action figures, plastic army men, Aurora monster kits, etc. I was in love with gaming miniatures right from the start (that was when I nagged my mother into stopping at The Last Grenadier).
D&D came later and drove most of my miniature collecting… until I bought a copy of Rogue Trader.

No

Yes

Roleplaying games and the use of miniatures in them was my gateway drug into Wargames.

Sort of. D&D, then Games Workshop products, then into historicals.

Yes- started with the AD&D battlesystem and then Warhammer from there.

After that Napoleonics

No.

I found RPGs through wargames

I'm in the group with Avalon Hill boardgames, then minis, then RPGs.

nope started with Green army men, war games from in the back of comic books then AH, Battle Tech, RT/40k,etc etc…

no – historical boardgames

Nope.

Nope

Minifigs-Skytrex opened up about a quarter of a mile from where I lived, at the age of 10, and the rest is history (except for the F/SF of course).

RPG's started up for me about a year later, and were a big part of my life for 5 or 6 years.

no, wargaming first, then rpgs, though I haven't done an rpg in ages

No.

No

RPGs weren't even around unless you mean the ones the VC fired.

No first miniatures then RPG

Boardgames -> RPG's -> Miniature games

boardgames/miniatures/rpg's then back and forth until i mixed all three

Nope; I was a gamer before D&D came on the market. Played it early on, though.

Vice-versa.
-Kle.

Yes.

D&D first in my early teens, then I painted a few D&D figures for the games, loved it and started painting fantasy armies. Historical followed when I was in my 20s.

No, and I started in the heyday, IMO, of D&D.

It was a chance visit to The Bunker in Copperas Cove Texas at the ripe old age of 10 or thereabouts.

I did have quite a collection of Airfix and Atlantic plastics though. Just didn't wargame at all. My actual first true wargame was without miniatures. Avalon Hill's War at Sea…

Nope. Started with "army men", then Airfix, then wargaming with a set of rules put out by RoCo (the guys who made MiniTanks).

When I started wargaming RPG's were Soviet equipment.

Started with D&D in late 70s
I'll play just about anything
and I like to run pulp , supers and conspiracy games

I would say yes. D&D at 20yrs. Did a lot of models (WWII armor and figures) but D&D was first miniature gaming