Hello, everyone. It's Saryn. Some of you might remember me from about a year or so ago.
I don't really have any explanation of why I left other than that some stuff happened in my life, and I took a step back and did some things differently for a year.
Anyway, I've a bit of a story here for you all.
Recently in the town where I attend school, a new gaming store opened up. They have already held one Pathfinder Society game, in which I played a pre-gen character and loved the game. And now, I am tasked with creating my own character to continue playing in the sessions.
I thought to myself as I spent many a night staring at blank character sheets, that the best group of people to ask about a fantasy RPG were some of my old friends back on the Skyrim Blog, so here I am.
Have any of you played PFS or a similar game before? How do you get into the RP? Any advice for a first-timer (most of my RP experience is the digital gaming variety) that's not had much experience with tabletop RPGs before?
I play D&D, but I've played RP games, or role played in games, for almost a decade.
You need something that'll keep your interest and inspire creativity. As soon as a character gets boring, I stop playing them until such a time as I find them interesting again or I make changes that corrects the boring.
Try taking inspiration for characters from non-RPG worlds. For example, try doing a character based off of a Guardian from Destiny (I find that they are very similar to the general idea of an explorer of fantastical places) or Subject Delta from Bioshock 2 (The whole game is literally about traveling through an underwater post-apocalypse).