[Arnabas]

I've been thinking about RPG's for a while now... and have found myself wondering if my mind is getting lazy.
Years ago I used to play the Bard's Tale games and LOVED them. I put an awful lot of thought and creativity into my charcters. I had a character named Jasn Dragonsbane, who was a Paladin. I found myself thinking that "Dragonsbane" was pretty arrogant for a 1st level character and wrote some history to explain it. Turns out it was inherited from his father, Brial, who was grandson of Ober the Great... Well, anyhow, to explain this guys NAME, I wrote out an extensive family tree, which eventually became over 700 years of history, maps, myths and legends, gods, demons, etc. etc. etc.
These days, characters look so much better and the graphic environments are so much better that I don't have to imagine as much. Consequently, my characters have become much less "real". They sometimes even devolve into monster-killing stats with a nice on-screen representation.
Has anyone else suffered this loss of creativity? And do you blame the increasingly realistic games?

[ 05-11-2003, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: Arnabas ]