RPG - Advice needed as I have no idea :(

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My go-to recommendation for someone who's never played before is the Dragon Age product line. It's a competent RPG, easy to learn, sold in a box, and comes with (as well as sold separately) enough high-quality adventures for one person to pick up and run the game for enough time to get into it (6+ sessions from what I could tell). It's also pretty cheap and only requires D6s to start.

Why not D&D (and Pathfinder)? D&D has an overwhelming omnibus of books that players will be drawn towards and feel the need to pick up and explore, quickly derailing any depthful learning. D&D has "rules for everything" which can stunt a new Game Master's development of his own abilities (adjudication, winging it when necessary, etc).

To be continued when I don't have to rush to put shoes on and catch a bus