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[veltzeh]

I like role-playing games. I first heard about them when the mother of my friend mentioned them to me when I was 12 or something. At that time, I got the idea that it was like acting or holding a presentation (I couldn't find a good translation for the word "esiintyä") and was not thrilled at all. She could have been talking about LARP, too.

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[xuenay]

ike acting or holding a presentation (I couldn't find a good translation for the word "esiintyä")

Performing?

[veltzeh]

Oh yeah, that. Dictionary failed me!
Thanks. X)

[hellmutt]

I don't know the D&D types well, 'cause I tend to avoid things with such rigid and odd definitions as RPGs tend to have, but have you tried rangering? Or a druid or something?

I came into play-by-post RP through a scifi site, where I'd gravitated to the fantasy area, and found that writing was something I could do. I got complimented, even though my ideas back then were very rubbish (I WAS a child, after all).

I still have my first character. He's a puppydog (large, black, fireproof).

[veltzeh]

I have tried a druid and ranger, actually. The druid had the magic problem and the ranger tends to get too many conditional bonuses. Also the animal companions... they're cool, but I already have too much trouble trying to remember what the character itself can do. X)

Now that I think about it, the rules rigidity of RPGs like D&D is both a blessing and a curse, for me at least. On the other hand I dislike that the rules have to be THAT way and not the way I want it, and on the other hand it's cool that there are fairly clear rules and that all obey them, at least for the most part. But then there are the annoying loopholes and such in the rules...

My first character was a Kim for an X-Men RPG. Cough, surprise!