Originally Posted by fylimar
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Originally Posted by fylimar
My first tabletop game was DnD - second edition back in the days. My first character there was an elven ranger lady, so pretty standard and basic.
My first computer game was actually Baldurs Gate 1 and it got me hooked.
Hey that's very cool. It was exactly the same for me, except for that my elf ranger was male. It's why I still have a soft-spot for the ranger class. smile

Sorry, wasn't in here for a while. I moved on to bards pretty quickly, I just lova that class.

My favourite, very early crpg was and is Vampire teh Masquerade Bloodlines. It is very dark, but has some of the best characters I ever encountered in a game, some of them based on the ttrpg lore, like Beckett, others own creations like Gorgeous Gary Golden, Mitnick, Jeanette and Therese, Andrei and basically every other npc. The game is a flawed jewel, because it was released unfinished due to the studio going broke, but until today, a dedicated modder community is working on it.

As for ttrpgs, I play a lot this days. Still DnD, but also Cthulhu, Vampire, Liminal - today we will play The Expanse.
I wish I had a local TT group with whom to play. I miss that whole atmosphere and experience of gaming with a group of friends face-to-face. frown

I've tried playing remotely using such venues as Roll20 and Discord, but the problem there for me is my hearing impairment which makes following what people are saying very difficult.

I've avoided such genres as vampire games in RPGs because I find the mechanics of guns difficult to accept. It's not the guns per se; I have no problem at all with firearms. It's that I cannot suspend my disbelief with respect to how much damage a single gunshot would do to a person. Yes, the same can be said for fantasy weapons such as a huge club wielded by a giant. But I don't know. Somehow, I can handle suspending my disbelief with fantasy weapons, but not firearms (or energy weapons in sci-fi games).