2 What was the first
character you played in an RPG other than D&D? How was playing it
different from playing a D&D character?
I don't really remember my
first Star Frontiers character. He/She/It probably died trying to
fight some robot or Sathar agents or something. I have a few
memorable characters from my old SF game, but if one of them was the
first I created, I couldn't say. It was probably a Yazirian, since Larry Elmore's cover art featured them.
How was playing Star
Frontiers different from D&D? Well, for one thing, the skill
system meant that you could have all kinds of character types without
much limitation. Sure, it cost lots of points for your Combat PSA
character to learn robotics or become a medic, but it was allowed.
There were no weapon/armor restrictions. The alien races for the
most part felt alien, unlike demi-humans in D&D. That's not to
say that we necessarily played them as truly alien, but I at least
had a sense that choosing to be a vrusk was somehow more different
from human than choosing to be an elf was from being human.
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