I play Vampire the Masquerade which is close but different in many different areas. I've played D&D games before but they just don't capture my attention the same way.

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I played D&D/AD&D beginning in the mid 70s (tabletop of course). I was the DM for my daughter and her friends from junior high. We had a lot of fun until about mid high school - when they all got too busy trying to sort out graduating with honors and which college to go to.

After that, I played computer versions of Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms - the SSI Gold Box series. As time went on, I discovered TES I Arena when it released, then the other TES games as they released - along with many more forgettable games.

I still play Oblivion and Skyrim alongside ESO. I'm hoping I'll still be alive when TES VI releases.... and that it won't be something I can't deal with (like VR - I have massive vertigo, can't do VR.... ew....)

I haven't really been into the online D&D stuff - too invested in TES/ESO.

Oh sylver, you'll play es6 don't worry, you tell such interesting stories i never grow tired of reading them.
I wish i could had played d e d , i was lucky i even got to play once monopoly with my family.
There's also that table game where ppl need to find out who's the murderer, always wanted to try it.

SWKOTOR 1 and 2, which are based on DnD, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity OS 2, Pathfinder Kingmaker, all games completed by 100%.

I got interested in D&D shortly after I started playing ESO (having been watching Critical Role for a while), and the first D&D character I ever created (a high elf wizard) was an adaptation of the character concept I made up for my Altmer magsorc. At the time I wasn't sure if I'd ever actually play D&D with a group, but I found a local game store that hosted games and I've been playing regularly ever since (online via Discord since the pandemic started). I ended up playing that wizard in a Curse of Strahd campaign that ended recently, and she was a great fit for that.

Since my schedule doesn't leave room for theatre anymore, D&D is basically my outlet for acting and improv along with enabling my penchant for creating fictional people and giving them overly elaborate backstories. I've done similar things with ESO characters, but my RP here centers on fanfic writing and whatever goes on in my own head while I'm playing. So it's nice to have a venue for really portraying my characters and acting out scenes with other people in a relatively chill setting.

Oh and I made an ESO version of a tabaxi pirate rogue I'm going to be playing in our next campaign. So I guess that's another connection.

I misclicked... should have been "other".
I have played a ton of pen&paper RPG games over the years, MERP, Rolemaster, Vampire, Warhammer, Werewolf, Call of Cthullhu just to name some. Funnily enough, I never played D&D tabletops. When I started playing, D&D was considered a subpar game in the "scene".

I played First Edition AD&D like a drug-addicted fiend back in the '70s and D&D off-and-on up through the mid-90s.
I've moved around a lot since college, and haven't had time to search-out local groups in many years.
I do know of a local gaming shop where players congregate for games, on-site, and forge groups for play elsewhere, but work and other commitments leave me with little time to get involved there.
I'd still play if there were more solo modules available, but that, understandably, has never been a strong focus of D&D.

I played DnD specifically a grand total of once, but I dabbled in Pathfinder, FAE and have done some freeform on other forums. One of those freeforms was set in Skyrim (the game and the region, so Fourth Era) - as is common with PbP games it died shortly after it started when the DM lost interest. But I did make my Stamblade an ancestor/relative of my character from that game.

I used to play some DnD back in the Eighties, me and my friends have been more into a german game called "Das Schwarze Auge" though. I think it was/is called "The Dark Eye" in other countries. There have also been some PC games based on the system over the years, most of which I have of course played.

It all started with books (The Lord of the Rings of course, among others). Then there where those books that give you choices while progressing through the story, including having to roll a dice from time to time for fights or the like ("Do you want to Run (continue on page xx) or Fight (continue on page yy)"). And then me and my friends discovered DnD and the Dark Eye and started our RPG group to play on a weekly basis - I gues I am not the only one who called out "That's exactly how it's been!" at the scene in Stranger Things where the guys were playing their RPG in the basement

Well, and next the aera of the home computers started . Must have been christmas 1983 when I got my Commodore 64, at that time with a cassette tape recorder as a storage device - man, was that thing slow... Had to wait a year until next christmas to get my floppy disk drive - finally! And then there was The Bard's Tale in 1985, and I got lost... Wasteland. Might and Magic. Ultima. The SSI games, especially Pool of radiance comes to mind. And so on, and so on...

Strangely enough, the Elder Scrolls series somehow escaped my grasp until Oblivion - I in fact haven't played Morrowind as of now, shame on me! (but I own it on Steam, just have to find the time to give it a try).
So while I still play CRPGs with a passion, the last time I played a table top RPG must be some 20 years ago - the friends I used to play with have moved away and / or lost interest in playing, and it's not exactly easy to find like minded people in my age (getting 50 next month).

Those who are interested are mostly "experienced". I don't get your subject.
There's a difference in experienced and experienced.

Started with Baldur's Gate 2 and was impressed by its rich lore of the forgotten realm (I read through almost every single lorebook in the game which had nothing to do with quest/combats...). Although it took me quite a while to get a semi-clear understanding of the intricate game mechanics (DnD 2.0), I had a blast in playing and learning through. The 8 schools of magic some of which counter each other seem most appealing to me, as far as combat mechanics go. Later on with plethora of classic modules like improved anvil 6.5 and Ascension, Combat Tactics (to name but a few), the game got even more challenging and fun.

Then moved on to Neverwinter Night. Its huge capability of creating new persistent worlds (PW) drew my attention. This is probably the game I've spent the most time on, while I planewalked from one PW to another, and even DMed one. The funny thing is, even now I still haven't played any of its original game campagins. In brief, NWN was more like a visual upgrading of BG2, though the magic system seems to be more simplified.
In between, I played through Icewind Dale 1&2(quite reminiscent of BG2 in terms of visual/audio effects and combat rules), NWN2(worse than NWN1) before it all comes to Divinity:Original Sin series, Pillar of Eternity series, Pathfinder series(still playing the "Wraith of the Righteous" episode).

Just finished New Game+2 of Elden Ring last month and its gothic style and music also reminds me of DnD, though the combat system is completely another story. I haven't played any of the Dark Soul series games, but Elden Ring might lure me to try one simply because of its highly action/tactic-based combat style.

Now I'm playing through Solasta: Crown of the magister(probally finish it in 1 or 2 days), which is basically a game based on DnD 5edition. The game is quite stunning if you have a crush on the DnD new edition thing, though its visual/story/problly more aspects still wait to be improved.