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Question 29: Share a friendship you have because of RPGs?

My oldest friendship exists because one day in 1983 or ’84 I went to the local Model Shop (which sold model kits of tanks and such and also roleplaying games and computers) and asked if they knew anyone who was a gamer?

They knew just the fellow, who showed up a few days later with a character sheet all prepared and invited me to join his group for their latest AD&D campaign.

The rest is hundreds of characters over decades of games.

There are very few people I know now that I didn’t meet through roleplaying games, or via people I’d met through gaming. Funny how that turned out.

Question 20:  Which game mechanic inspires your play the most?

The very fact that roleplaying games by their nature involve the players and GM sitting around a table (usually) and sharing in the creation of a narrative.

Sure, I, as GM, can say: “Boss Greblin wants you to take this sealed oak box to Los Angeles. Don’t open it.”

And then one of the players can have their character wait until Boss Greblin’s out of the room and be all: “I open the box.”

While the rest of the crew are shouting: “What the actual-“

The game can move wherever we want it to–sometimes in opposite directions, often with dire consequences. And yet it moves. Always.