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You’ve never seen me bowl. B-) I’m not sure how intimate most RPGs are. Am I playing a Wizard because it says something about my...

Yeah. Basically, shared hobbies are likely socially beneficial, whatever they are. It’s not the hobby itself, it’s the social...

Something always bothered me about the stereotypical gamer as someone who was socially awkward. Those gamers exist of course, but given...

This is interesting. Over the past few years, I've had exchanges on these board where some posters talk about verisimilitude not by...

Digging a bit deeper, it appears that the StartPlaying defines a "cozy" RPG as one designed "specifically for mental health healing"...

It doesn't say much about how they found people to survey and I imagine it's not a representative sample. It would be interesting to see...

I wouldn't be at all surprised by a large number of people saying games are good for their mental health. The part that surprised me was...

How is trauma being defined here? 75% of participants saying they're using roleplaying to deal with trauma sounds like a huge number, to...

I'm a bit harsher - if someone's humming and hawing for too long I'll jump to the next player, knock the indecisive player's character a...

Oh, yeah, I also have the full set of *Without Number games, which I pick up in the knowledge there's likely to be something I can take...

I haven't played in either recently, but I found Kalamar more interesting than Greyhawk generally. Frandor's Keep (for Hackmaster) is an...

As some specific examples, I purchased pretty much every single Al Qadim boxed set, along with the Dark Sun OBS and Ivory Triangle boxed...

In my defense, I was quoting Gygax! B-)

I thought you said this was for 1e AD&D? ;)

Yes I would. Why? Because I prefer the mechanics of the system I'm using as my baseline rules to the system associated with the setting...