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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randomling" data-source="post: 1996578" data-attributes="member: 8432">I'm going to go against the grain here and say there's nothing wrong with playing RPGs for a little healthy escapism. Everybody's life has parts that suck, and it's perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned to enjoy playing somebody else leading a different life for the very reason that they are somebody else, leading a different life.Note the word "healthy", though. RPGs can get a lot more intense than, say, reading a book or watching a movie, and that's all OK as long as you leave your escapism at the gaming table, in the DVD player or between the covers of your Tolkien. The problems come when you do it too much, or take it too seriously, or let it get control.I don't think escaping necessarily means that the activity is "an alternate to your life" - it's an activity that lets you get away from it for a few hours at most. I enjoy the escapism of RPGs a lot. Among other fun and benefits that it gives me. It's one of my leisure activities, one of my creative activities, one of my social activities.Um, that wasn't meant to be a rant - just wanted to point out that, to me, escapism is not de facto bad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>