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I started fairly recently, both TTRPG and Board games. Before picking up the hobby I actually moved to a much more rural area, so don't have too many people to play with unless I want to head into town, but there are still some options.
TTRPG:
I play Call of Cthulu online via discord/foundry with a group I found on a paid TTRPG site. I pay $10 per session. Little bit expensive when factoring in exchange rates to my local currency, but not that big a deal.
I used to run a Monster of the Week series online, but between groups at the moment. If we ever start a lemmy group or something, I am happy to run it again.
Board Games:
Mostly I play solo stuff. My partner will play some things with me, but we have pretty different tastes in what we like. Many games have great solo modes now though. Final Girl is one of my favourites, but I played through all of Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion solo as well.
What are you paying for, access to proprietary tools for handling characters, rolls etc?
Keeper's time basically, though they do provide all the materials (not that a copy of the investigator's handbook is all that expensive).
Jfc you pay to play Cthulhu of all things?
I am not really the biggest straight up D&D fan, and outside that there are extremely limited online options that work given my timezone/work schedule. It's a pretty good group as it turns out though.
There are some other stuff I would like to try, Blades in the Dark is high on that list, but again...availability.
Edit: Notably when I started with this group a while back, I had almost no TTRPG experience, so it was nice to have a pretty experienced group willing to work with me.
Well if the choice is either D&D or Cthulhu i would probably resign altogether. I'm not a fan of D&D because dungeon crawlers, and i have hate bone for specifically Cthulhu ttrpg because the convention is not interesting for me and more importantly, Polish publishers incredibly love it and ever since 90's a lot of cool rpg's got stillborn or aborted after just one or two manuals in order to PUBLISH MORE FUCKING VERSIONS OF CTHULHU.
Though i must say i like the mythos in itself and somtimes i use it in other settings.
That's fair, not a huge TTRPG in my country so CoC is not nearly as common (we have a big warhammer community though, go figure). I can imagine anything gets a bit tiresome when you are exposed to it that much.