Games Give You A Chance To Excel.

Of Course As Children, We All, In All Cultures And Societies, Learn Behavior From Observation, Imitation, And Encouragement Of Various Kinds. So By The Suggestion Made, We All 'pretend' Most Of The Time.

You Are Not Entering This World In The Usual Manner, For You Are Setting Forth To Be A Dungeon Master. Certainly There Are Stout Fighters, Mighty Magic-users, Wily Thieves, And Courageous Clerics Who Will Make Their Mark In The Magical Lands Of D&d Adventure. You However, Are Above Even The Greatest Of These, For As Dm You Are To Become The Shaper Of The Cosmos. It Is You Who Will Give Form And Content To The All The Universe. You Will Breathe Life Into The Stillness, Giving Meaning And Purpose To All The Actions Which Are To Follow.

The Books I Write Because I Want To Read Them, The Games Because I Want To Play Them, And Stories I Tell Because I Find Them Exciting Personally.

I Foresee Online Gaming Changing When There Are Good Audio-visual Links Connecting The Participants, Thus Approximating Play In A Face-to-face Group.

Some Of The Roots Of Role-playing Games (rpgs) Are Grounded In Clinical And Academic Role Assumption And Role-playing Exercises.