Heh… Well, it’s not like you have to have no life to play. But it definitely helps. This is especially hard on GM’s because they have to do all the prep work. We just show up, eat his potato chips, drink his soda, and whine about not getting cool loot, or enough xp :P

I used to play a lot in High School, but then I moved, lost touch with most of the people from my old gaming group. I got back into it in college and played in a short GURPS campaign but it kinda fell apart as our GM – a father of two, found it more and more difficult to reconcile his family life and gaming.

Funny thing is – I never played D&D. Our fantasy setting of choice was Warhammer RPG – most likely because we also played the tabletop game. The game mechanics were horribly broken though. For example my dwarf character in full armor could not be wounded by Str 3 blows (nearly all bow weapons, and 90% of npc’s of the “regular grunt” variety).

Fortunately our GM was more of a storytelling guy than a dice roller, so we kinda played the game like it was the diceless Amber game. :P

Well, I used to play D&D first edition and Warhammer when it first came out in the eighties.

But I have a life now . . . ;-)