"First RPG played (this year)?"
#Pathfinder second edition. @JoeF has been running a campaign set in Ustalav (aka gothic horror land) for the past year of so.
First RPG I ever played was #GURPS two decades ago. And while I had my problems both with the GM's style and the rules themselves, I was forever hooked.
EDIT: I've added an image with all the questions for this year's RPG-a-Day AND added all the questions in the image description.
Day 2 at #RPGaDay2023
"First RPG GAMEMASTER?"
My first Game Master ran a fantasy game using the crunchiest, most simulationistic version of GURPS rules possible. Square roots were involved. Accidents turned player characters quadriplegic.
And yet, even after two years of that, I somehow still remained enthusiastic about #ttrpg.
As for the first game *I* game mastered (these questions are a bit imprecise), I ran D&D 3rd edition around three years after I first started playing tabletop rpgs.
Day 3 at #RPGaDay2023
"First RPG bought (this year)?"
First RPG books I bought this year were the #Midderlands setting books by #MonkeyBloodDesign: a wonderful OSR-like game set in a green, gloomy, fantastical version of 17th century England.
As for the first RPG book I ever bought, that was #Eberron Campaign Setting by @hellcowkeith back in 2004. This remains by far my favorite D&D setting, with its mix of fantasy, pulp action, steampunk, and noir.
Day 4 at #RPGaDay2023
Most recent game bought?
Most recently, I bought the game Tiny Pirates. It is one of the several #TinyD6 products I own.
While this game specifically is oriented towards playing 17th century pirates, the system is flexible enough that there are versions for playing #Cthulhu games, #western, #Fantasy, and so on.
While I still haven't actually ran a TinyD6 game, I am... cautiously optimistic about this.
Day 5 at #RPGaDAY2023
Oldest game you've played?
GURPS third edition was the first #ttrpg I played. That was around the time I was just starting college, around the year 2000.
From there on, I started playing a D&D 3rd edition campaign set in the world of Legend of Five Rings. By 2003 I was ready to run my first D&D one-shot that turned into my first campaign.
@ArneBab That's a long story.
The short of it is: I didn't like the GM's style of running our GURPS campaigns. It was the kind of game in which there's always one correct solution to a problem, with anything else leading to frustrated players.
Also, GURPS rules themselves were way to complicated for my taste. Although, this might have been GM's fault too. He customized the rules to make them even more simulationist. Just calculating hit points damage during combat was a math nightmare.
@Glupinickname wow, I can imagine that.
We switched from GURPS to a homebrew, because GURPS felt too "dusty" — the most interesting parts of the adventures were the critical successes and failures while the rest was overly close to what we expected.
But we still loved the flexibility and massive amount of consistent resources, so we made the homebrew GURPS-compatible ☺
@Glupinickname To excuse your GM a bit: we also played a more-or-less generic fantasy world at the start.
And later several science fiction settings.
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