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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 4947750" data-attributes="member: 8447">I have been doing this for a fair few years now under many systems and have some notions of what I really like about this amazing hobby.First up, this is the one hobby that brings all my various interests and reading habits together -- mythology, folklore, history, pre-industrial technology, writing (both fiction and technical), geography, meteorology, strange occult topics, various forms of research, extemporaneous acting, practicing a wide variety of accents, etc.  No other hobby gets so many of my interests into a single box so quickly.Second up, friends.  I started out gaming with friends and have continued to do so ... mainly because many people who have joined my games have become friends.  I don't want to simply game with people; I want to interact with them both before and after the fact.  I have friends now scattered across the country (and in a couple of other countries) that I have gained through gaming.  These are the two bigs ones.  As for strategy and tactics, I would get a much better sense from Go or Chess or an old AH/SPI-style boardgame, or optionally picking up the ol' sword-n-board and go back on the SCA battlefield.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>