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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agamemnon" data-source="post: 1727042" data-attributes="member: 2567">No, it appears that I didn't. I assume that my being a foreigner and not a native English speaker has led me to misunderstand your point so utterly. It is to be expected, of course, but I'm afraid I cannot do any better.I still stand by my conclusions. When I play, or DM, or design worlds or monsters or whatever, I'm escaping. In the world of my imagination, I'm free. Whenever I'm forced back into the real, I'm sad because I prefer the illusion. If something bad happens in-game, I can always think "it has to work out in the end, it's a story and that's what stories do". Games I can work with. They have rules, they have patterns that can be interpreted and taken advantage of. Good gets rewarded, evil punished. Real life has nothing of the sort. In reality, everything is in flux and there are no rerolls and happy endings. That's why I play, and I am certain I am not alone in this reasoning. After all, not being exceptional in any other aspect leads to me not being exceptional in this one, either. Therefore, we must out there.</blockquote>