@Taskerland [ponders]

I think the first RPG that got me reading was Gangbusters, which got me to try Chandler, Hammett and Gardner ... which then led to ... well, to me having this image as my Mastodon image thingy.

Then hundreds of other RPGs got me to read thousands of other things. 😮

Fantasy games generally (not any specific game) did ruin any prospect of fantasy-novel reading for me, for sure.

Conversely, I look at a lot of OSR stuff and I a) don't think the worlds are more interesting than books, and b) I don't think they're as interesting as those old D&D modules were at the time.

A lot of OSR modules have settings that feel self-consciously derivative while also being so optimised for play that they don't feel real and so are not evocative for me, but then I know that I do tend to run worlds rather than games and OSR stuff is very gamey.