Question of the Day

Good morning GamersPlane! I am hoping that we can spark some good conversation in the GP Forum, so let's start a Question of the Day! Note, this doesn't have to be every day; lets just try to be engaged!

To start with, here is a question I asked in the GP Discord server:

What was the first game you played on GamersPlane?

For me, it was a B/X game of Temple of Elemental Evil with an amazing cast of players and characters! I played Eltrezar the Medium, a human magic-user far more interested in finding gems and cool clothing than doing actual good. And despite what @KCC says, he was a practical man who only left them to die at the hands of ghouls because his own death would have been needless!

My first game here was back in 2019 - a DnD 5e game run by Qralloq. I played Mavis, a dwarf rogue with a Yorkshire accent so thick she might have been speaking Orcish. I joined halfway through the game and the game went on to completion where we rescued a dragon.

I know, right? A dungeons and dragons game with an actual dragon!

My first game was a homebrew campaign for Pathfinder 1e, almost precisely 10(!) years ago.

Life changes had broken up my face-to-face group, and when I sought a new venue to TTRPG, I found my way to GP. It ended up being a series of duet games (me as GM) with a few players from my previous group and fizzled out after a while.

I stuck around, though, and haven't looked back.

My first game was also in 2019. A Smallville game of college-aged superheroes, run by @bowlofspinach once our original GM ghosted the game. There were four of us, and we had amazing drama in that game. It is still one of my favorite gaming experiences here or anywhere since I started this hobby back in the early 80's.

I played Olivia "Shockwave" McLellan - great superhero, bad girlfriend.

My first game was #8. Golden Sea Chronicles run by Azzorak, using Numenera. Keleth and I are likely the only two people left who were in that game.

As it happens sometimes, that game died on the second page.

That didn't stop me from getting the bug though, as evidenced by still being here. In fact, my love for Numenera started there in that short game. So much imagination was sparked.

My very first game was a short-lived Pathfinder 1e game of Mummy's Mask, but the first game that lasted was (same system) Curse of the Crimson Throne. It is a 6-book adventure path, and I had already GM'd the first book in a live setting by that point. Their game was just starting book 2 and needed a player so I jumped in with Brackit, a gnome bard.

That was in early 2021, and the game is still ongoing! We've lost some people, added some people, and I actually ended up taking over as GM last year to make sure it lives on. It's been a fun game and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes!

What was the first game you played on GamersPlane?
It was a Lasers and Feelings game by onceandfuture. It was a short run, run to completion, and I really appreciated playing a true L&F game since I had previously run an L&F hack on Discord.

I made a very weird android and gave her an even weirder ending. I wanna give @onceandfuture a shoutout because I love RP’ing stories that end, and this one ended well and overall had a campy vibe all the way through!

My first three games on GP were SWADE games (Sagas and Six-guns, Legion of Liberty, and some kind pranormal government agency game) that all ended before they began because the GM ghosted right after character creation. Maybe it was a serial ghoster?

Two of those games were salvaged by kind people who stepped in to give us a chance to play the characters, but neither of the replacement games lasted long. FlyingSucculent was the one that continued the paranormal agency game, and I was grateful that I got a chance to play the young troubled telepath Maia Brown for a short while.

Someone also ran a short one-shot adventure for Ragnhild Gudrunsdottir, an exiled Valkyrie that had settled down as a ranch hand until destiny called again :). For some reason, I cannot find a trace of that game any longer and I am ashamed to admit that I no longer remember who took over as GM.

My first was a 5e homebrew campaign which lasted for about a months in Summer 2024 and then the GM disappeared. I pulled out of that one; @Arrcher101, you were in that one. What was it called?

Mine was in 2019, a Savage Worlds horror one-shot ran by Windyridge.
It involved the passengers of a greyhound bus who got stranded in a sort of cursed village. Good fun!

I immediately saw the great potential of this medium and of this specific platform, and I have been a regular player / GM here ever since!

A friend invited me into a game he was running, using GP. The world was incredible.
It was a homebrewed D&D setting. It started off with a fight you can't win. But, I didn't know that. At the last moment before you die, you get sucked to another place and given a choice, serve by working for a powerful patron for a specified amount of time or go back and die. Then the world was full of twist, turns, action, mystery, rival guilds, it was just awesome.
It was also, unlimited posts per day. So, it was constantly moving.

Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, which is still being run.

I ended up running two different characters, and had some fun, but left after a while. Though definitely unique, that system is a bit too cozy for me.

But I'm still RPing with users from that initial game, so I guess we can't get rid of each other. 😎

Back when I started on Gamers Plane, I'd just come out of playing a Numenera one-shot with a friend of mine run by a random guy he met at work, and I'd left somewhat dissatisfied because, while I had fun, the GM was new to the system and kept doing things wrong (for example, he kept rolling dice), so I felt like I wasn't actually playing Numenera. Appropriately enough, then, the first game I played in here was a Numenera game that started back in May 2015 (the 53rd game on Gamers Plane). That was a lot of fun (a lot better than that one-shot). I'm tickled that @Qralloq also got started with Numenera.

As far as I recall (which may be wrong), a few months later (while I was still playing Numenera), I worked up the nerve to get into another game (game 109): a D&D 5e game that was reskinned to be sort of a Star Wars science fantasy adventure. That game had a bunch of players, and we were all excited to play...but the game was slow getting started, so I started running games myself with 111 (All Outta Bubblegum) and 114 (Skyrealms of Jorune). Somewhere in there the DM for 109 abandoned the site, before we'd done anything more than make characters, so I started another game, 136 (a D&D 5e conversion of module N1), which I'm still running to this day. Those were my early games, all from 2015.

My first ever game was one that @Nezzeraj recruited me to! He and I were in a live group at the time and he asked the group chat if anyone wanted to join this PBP site he knew!

I played Okri Merryhelm in a Dragonlance game. I didn’t fully understand what that was or that it was even on rails, as such! Had a good time, but the game did fizzle out, or at least my time with it did!

First game I created here was in late 2018, while I was surveying PbP sites and testing out new places to play. It was a Fate game I put together just to see how it all worked, and I don't think I understood what the hell I was doing at all.

I then disappeared for a couple of years and resurfaced in early 2021, when I ran The Spudfield Good Girl, an OSR two page dungeon using Knave. Actually running / playing on the site hooked me immediately -- the site features, the community vibe, the quality of the players... so good.

I'm not sure how I got looped into the gang of ne'er do wells I've ended up playing with a lot over the last few years, but I do know that KCC's Tales from the Loop game was a big part of it.

Three cheers for GP and the beings that infest it!

My first game was 6 years ago. It was a d&d5e game, where the GM had us starting in our own solo-tread and then would have us meet up for the "real" adventure. I don't remember who, what and why.
What I do remember is that I really enjoyed narrating the effects of a healing potion, what did it feel like to my barbarian character. This was something there was never time to do in a tabletop game.
I also remembered that the game never got far, as I think the GM ghosted, but then I found another game... and another... and another... then I ran some games and then 6 years have passed.

Technically, my first game here was Bowl's tutorial game in December 2021. Which was just a very short story to get to know how GP works. It was a Tales from the Loop game, which I had never played before. Since I could tell Bowl had been doing the same story so many times before for other new members, I tried to make my actions a bit more exciting :D

After that the first real game I joined was a World of Dungeons game called Fresh Faced Adventurers with vagueGM. That was supposed to be step up from the tutorial where people come and go as they find other games to play. But I ended up being in that game for about 3 years!

Both were great experiences, especially for someone new to PbP.

Ok it took some research but I found it! It was a Shadowrun: Anarchy game that started less than a month after I joined the site. Even though the game lasted 4 months, we only got to the second page of posts lol.

My first "real" game that lasted awhile was a Dragonlance game using 1e D&D! My first time playing 1e too. It was definitely interesting and memorable!

@runestone, hey, I'm just saying, but the offer to go back to it is still on the table! :D Well, maybe not *exactly* it, but I still regret the way that game went, so I'd be happy to try to do it again and better. Mayhaps as a one-shot of sorts? So if you ever want to return to playing a troubled telepath... I'll be happy to see Maia again! She is a great character.

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I joined a bunch of games when I first appeared on the site in 2019, probably because instead of making an introduction thread I just went to the Games Tavern looking for a game directly. XD I even found the thread for the fun of it, and isn't that an interesting read considering it's been nearly six years since then.

Most of the games I joined weren't very long-lived. The one which probably had the most long-lasting consequence was CESN's playtest for their 5+ homebrew system - not because of anything that happened in the game, but because it resulted in both me crossing paths with bowlofspinach (spinach-friend! :3) and, indirectly, in me writing a short story for Qralloq's anthology some time later.
I played a living stone gargoyle winemaker there, and I still like that character a lot. (Please, GP, give me a game where I can play him again.) I think the fact that I *could* do that was one of the reasons why I actually stayed on the site initially!

Is there any way to see old posts. I joined in 2015 and didn't last very long. I had a much more stressing job back then (technically same job, different owner). Returned in 2021 a bit older, a bit more mature and apparently more senile as I can't for the life of me remember what my first game was.