What brought you you into the hobby and why do you still stick with the hobby?With all the negativity on /tg/, there must be some reason why people here are passionate enough to even get upset at anything related to their hobby.I'll start:>I always had some interest in playing DnD, but was always too scared to join a group.>I found out about BG3 from the South Park episode and bought the game after finding out it was turn based.>I discovered that it used mechanics from DnD and found myself playing for hours across multiple runs.>After a while, it sparked my desire to play so I forced myself to find a group>Since then, I haven't been playing any vidya.I enjoy the cooperative narrative of DnD. No video game has the same level of freedom. Sure I can make a custom character, but it's just putting a face on the dev's character and any backstory I want is completely ignored.I find myself on /tg/ because there really isn't many places to talk about DnD and no way I can talk about it to anyone irl.
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyDawn of War is the sole reason>why do you still stick with the hobby?Assembling, kitbashing, converting, sculpting, recasting and printing is fun. Simply playing something, be it video or tabletop game, is just boring, mindless consumerism. Creating is more fulfilling.
from the first encounter of my very first dungeon over 20 years ago, when my GM allowed me to kick a boiling cookpot into the faces of some orcs as long as I rolled for it, I knew this was a game that allowed completely player agency and creativity, far more free than any video game could offer. I have loved roleplaying ever since.
>>97553692>Hear about D&D in some TV show as a kid, cant remember which one>Ask my dad about it>His eyes light up like I just asked him about his long lost love>He immediately runs to the attic and pulls out all his old AD&D books from the 80s>Lets me read through the books while he calls his old friends from high school that he used to play with>A party is formed consisting of all the guys he used to play with plus most of their kids>Still playing with that same group almost 14 years later>Branched out to /hwg/ as well
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyMy family always played board games. I learned MtG from a friend in school in the late nineties, started RPGs around 2006, took up Kill Team during covid.>why do you still stick with the hobby?The hobby is still fun. Massively so./tg/ used to be fun. It was a resource.Current year /tg/ has no value to me other than me shitting on pseuds and/or Russians
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyTotal War warhammer got me interested in AoS and later Old World>why do you still stick with the hobby?Miniature painting sessions can be a nice palette cleanser Found a couple of buddies to play games with on the regularAlso found a few more skirmish games where I can reuse my models>why people here are passionate enough to even get upset at anything related to their hobbyI'm only upset if I feel like my time is wasted. >Going to a tournament with a mostly painted army only to be tabled by a cheesy waacfag who can't be bothered to buy plastic/wooden bases as proxies and uses paper cut outs, yet somehow is allowed into the tournament >Getting tabled by a teen with cheesy list, who needs to announce his every success with a prepubescent battle cry>Watching a tourneyfag roll 5's and 6's on his custom dice consistently and never being questioned by the organizers, because he's in cahoots with the right people
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyI am an oldfag so BG2. At the time 3.5 was out so we started playing that. The rest is history. Tbh I liked making up stories and playing them out with my friends and siblings before that so when I actually got my hands on rules that allowed me to make games and not just make believe I was thrilled.>why do you still stick with the hobby?Why wouldn't I? Nothing significant has actually changed in the last 20 years aside from the fact that now I can easily keep playing with my friends that have left the country. Who the fuck cares about the negativity on /tg/? The hobby is 99% what happens in my table with my players not what autistic shitheads screech about on mongolian kitbashing forums. Side note> cooperative narrativeYou are playing the game wrong and you should feel bad about it.
>>97553692A girl inviting me to a game of Das Schwarze Auge 20 years agoI like that the hobby is actually 30 hobbies in one so you can't get bored of it3D printing and modeling, painting, writing, GMing, terrain building, wargaming, etc.
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobby A friend of mine got heroquest and my father gifted me the Dragon's Den becmi boxed set. Some years later we joined our lgs and met all the people around here that played ttrpgs>and why do you still stick with the hobby?I just had so much fun with it (loved playing in MERP) plus i always was a sucker for fantasy. The experience stuck with me so hard that i got into GMing specifically to chase that rose tinted glass memory.
>>97553692Got dragged kicking and screaming into a college PF1e game. Kept playing TTRPGs because I like the idea of problem-solving without having to paint within the rigid lines vidya tends to set up.
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>>97553692>Rather than talking about the hobby itself (in which I'm clueless), let's have a thread talking how it is awesome in generalSome next level spam thread
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyDepends on the hobby really>WargamingI only learnt about Warhammer because of random r34 content I was bumping into. I started with browsing /vp/ first and then checked other boards, that's how I ended up on /tg/ eventually where I spotted a 40k general thread. I would never get into wargaming if it wasn't for pirated books from /40kg/.>TCGI used to collect random Pokemon TCG cards without even knowing there is a card game behind them, like most of the kids I knew back then. In high school I started to play MtG. I knew just a little about the game but I got balls deep into Magic after finding a deck at my drinking pal's place and finally being taught how to play it.>RPGNothing crazy here. I have always seen RPG as the absolute hobby cringe thanks to insufferable and childish behaviour of RPG players having their games at the same time we were running our MtG events. Despite sitting at the other side of the quite spacious room you would always hear them scream, shout and behave like fucking animals. All the RPG players I have seen in public were always checking all the boxes on the reddit stereotypes list. About two years ago one of my MtG Cube pals mentioned he used to GM a lot in the past but he couldn't stand the local RPG crowd anymore. He immediately agreed to run a game for our drafting group, everyone liked it so now we run a session every few weeks for shit and giggles at someone's place.
>>97559612>why do you still stick with the hobbyDitto>WargamingI love to kitbash, convert etc. I like to play quite a lot, especially since I shifted from Warhammer to alternative wargames. I didn't play 40k a lot anyway so I had no sunk cost fallacy. The local scene is dominated by GW games of course but it didn't bother me, I simply started my own playgroup. Not being a slave to a specific brand or game helped me to avoid all the frustration and anger the majority of GW players are clearly addicted to. I couldn't care less about changes in the lore since I've clearly seen a huge downgrade on every level with the Gathering Storm being introduced to 40k. I was still a fresh wargamer back then but I already recognised it being a turning point and not letting myself attach to anything GW handles.>TCGI never played PTCG a lot, mostly online on PTCGO. With the old client being phased out and replaced with derpy PTCGLive I started to take even longer breaks from playing PTCG in general. It doesn't help I have a strong preference for non-rotating formats and PTCG is all about Standard. Nowadays I'm trying to play more irl and attend the local league but I can do so only once every few weeks due to adult life sucking big time and having my agenda filled with responsibilities and side-quests all the time.MtG on the other hand is very close to me and I have a love-hate relationship with it since the War of the Spark.The game got worse on every level, I find no redeeming value in a mess it became. The only way for me to enjoy it nowadays is to play with the old version of it preserved in amber. I play Cube a lot with my friends, sometimes I sport my Pauper deck as well. Lately I've been playing some Premodern online but I won't get invested until I start to play in person since the live interaction part i extremely important to me in MtG.>RPGDon't care, I play it because I have a GM. If I had to find a new group I wouldn't even bother.
>>97553718This is really cute, anon. I wish my dad was that cool.
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyI had general idea of rpgs but never got to play because I was antisocial. Met a guy at uni that was running wh40k and decided to join as the team needed a player>why do you still stick with the hobbyI like kiling my characters with randomness and love hearing my GM seethe when I don't miscast>there must be some reason why people here are passionate enoughautism, anon>putting a face on the dev's character and any backstory I want is completely ignoredyou should think of video games as interactive movies, they're ranging from linear stories(eg half-life) through a few endings(eg gtav) to big choice trees(eg detroit become human) point being devs can try accounting for as many player ideas as possible but it's impossible to consider every option
>>97553692I got into it because I found a lgs out here and loved the community that it had. That was a decade ago. I stick with it because I'm not given a lot of opporrtunity to be creative, and I finally feel like I understand the kitbashing, weird paint choices, and poses i like to do to my models. I'm not a good painter, or a good kitbasher, or anything in the hobby, really. I just like playing in this space and feeling like I'm doing something just for me, for once.
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyWe were playing UO for quite a while together and one of the guys brought up a rulebook of a local game to give P&P RPG a shot>why do you still stick with the hobby?It was almost always fun across the past 24 yearsWhat's the purpose of this thread, again?
>>97553692>What brought you you into the hobbyI saw people playing space hulk and thought terminators were cool, years later my friend got me DOW and learned about the setting and that terminators aren't called Space Hulks>why do you still stick with the hobby?I like making /mydudes/ and model building is alot of fun, I dont really have time or people to play games with in person but I usually help my friends who dm with ideas.>there must be some reason why people here are passionate enoughPeople actually care about things they invested into, also they like banter, and discussion. I usually find the people who get defensive on a personal level on their lack of understanding why people get this way to be odd ones out.
>>97553692First year of my undergrad my new best friend introduced me and a lot of other folks to D&D 3.5 and I immediately fell in love and saw the potential of ttrpgs. I remember the specific moment where some man that looked like a bush was charging the party and I realized I could do ANYTHING I wanted as a reaction to it. It blew my little brain.What keeps me in the hobby now is I'm finally getting comfortable running games and I'm loving trying new systems. Most recently I ran my first game of DREAD which was fun but very scary to run because non-stop narrative flow is something I struggle with.I love that the hobby is so social, creative, and human. I love how different the same game can feel when you play with new people, and that you can always improve and gain new insights when you get behind the screen.
My mom had a friend that was a total geek, when i was a kid she gave me loads of great computer games, tons of superhero comics and when she upgraded to third edition she gave me all her ad&d books...my friend group as loved playing pretend so with this new idea of "hardcore playing pretend" fit like a glove, cut to some years later we had homebrew systems from pokemon to x-men
