by Garth
Role Playing Games, or Right Intuition, Wrong Explanation
1:07 pm in Gaming, RPGs by Garth
Chris wrote recently about this topic and I wanted to give my formal response. In interest of full disclosure, I am also an avid fan of Role Playing Games (or RPG’s as we have called them since the days of yore) and played D&D in high school. I’ve also played since then, though with less frequency, as being away from the school environment makes it harder to get a good gaming group together.
As Chris pointed out in one of his comments, the deep concern at the heart of all of the hysteria and/or reaction against role playing games is the concept that they are in some sense not make-believe at all, but real.
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