It's just not the same experience as actual tabletop.
@tragedyjones said:
- Do/did you play in a tabletop game now or in the past?
I did and would do again if I could find anybody to RP with. It's emphatically not a "thing" here so I've been in a 15-year dry spell.
- What games(s) do/did you play as tabletop?
What game you got?
Seriously, I had over 200 RPGs. That's the core games. I also had most of the supplements for these games. (Basically if I liked a game I bought its supplements.) Of course I didn't play all of them; most of them I mined for ideas. I could play any of them though and was often called upon to run a game of something that caught someone's eye when the regular game couldn't work out for some reason or another.
Most common games played regularly, however, were Traveller (often played in the setting but using the CORPS rule system), HARP (don't judge me!), BESM (I said don't judge me!), and a CORPS-based modern-day police procedural campaign that ran for a looooooooooong time. (Think a Law & Order-inspired game and you've got it about right.) Interspersed between these were attempts at Everway and various flavours of Star Trek that never quite caught on.
In the distant, distant past I was big on C&S, Universe, Dragonquest, and Rolemaster (DON'T JUDGE ME!).
- Are/were you the GM/ST/DM at your tabletop?
I switched regularly between running and playing. We had a pretty decent (if fluid) group of adults who recognized that not everybody wanted to run all the time and not everybody wanted to play all the time. We switched between us when the time was right.
- Would you tabletop if you had the opportunity?
In a heartbeat.
- Do you have the opportunity but choose NOT to tabletop?
No. I have no opportunity. 