I started off with DND 5E and still enjoy it, but I started playing Pathfinder 2E a few months ago and just adore it. I think it's a better system overall and would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys TTRPGs. It's complicated, probably more so than DND, but it's worth it imo. The three-action economy, four degrees of success, and sheer amount of character customization are my favorite features.
I've played a pretty broad variety of characters. Mechanically, my favorite was my first ever character--a draconic sorcerer. I like blowing stuff up, what can I say. Roleplay-wise, it's a tie between my swashbuckler rogue and my celestial warlock. All of those were in DND, since I haven't been playing PF for very long. I've liked every character I've played, but I tend to enjoy characters with high CHA the most.
Right now, I'm playing a DND campaign and two PF campaigns. My characters are a grave domain cleric, a barbarian with the titan wrestler archetype, and a champion with the sorcerer archetype.
I've also played a little Dungeon World and a tiny one-shot called (iirc) The Witch Is Dead. One of my DMs is getting into Daggerheart, so I may be picking up a game in that system soon. I think I may play a rogue.
Tell me about your TTRPG experiences!
No need to apologize for the rant! I enjoyed it.
I LOVE the concept of being cursed/blessed with earth magic in that way. And I love that you're playing her as a fucking idiot who hides that shit, haha. (Fingers crossed she and her village get cured.) Incidentally, two of my characters were/are hiding things from the party as well, though nothing of that magnitude. My cleric is hiding that she's literally haunted--her childhood friend's ghost, who blames my cleric for her death, is hanging around and pestering her. (The players know as of recently, but iirc their characters don't.) And my champion is hiding her ancestry. She wears a magical scarf that makes her look like a human, but she's secretly a ~~fucken furry~~ kitsune. No big dramatic reason for that; she just dislikes the attention it draws in an area where kitsune are relatively uncommon.
I really want to try playing a kineticist sometime, and not just because I've always wanted to be a firebender haha.