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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ancellus" data-source="post: 3315221" data-attributes="member: 49473">Would I rather play face-to-face ? Of course.Do I miss the non-rpg elements of tabletop gaming ? Yes.Do I miss actually seeing players fidget and sweat (great post !) ? YesBut ... I have a full job that amounts to over 60 hours a week, I drive 90 miles every day, I have a young family, my University gaming group is now spread over at least three continents and having lived in two different countries over the past ten years ... VGT's have been a saviour.I still play rugby (of a sort ... at my advanced age, low animal cunning is now of more importance than brute force and ignorance) and my job involves people ... don't all our jobs ? So I don't mind sitting in front of a PC screen for 3-4 hours but I realise that for those people who work more intimately with a computer, this is an issue.If you are lucky enough to be able to invest the time or have "geographical" advantages then I guess you have no need of a VGT BUT, frankly some of the posts under this thread have been rather arrogant. Of course, that is just a personal opinion.My own experiences over the past two years have been wholly positive both in terms of fun and role playing.One other feature that I don't think has been touched on ... I run a few VGT games and over the past year have had players in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, USA, Canada, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Iceland, China, the Netherlands, India, Poland and Norway. All but 3 are still playing. I'm not sure what players think of the game that I run ... I think they are pretty good (of course <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=";)" /> ) but I do get a buzz out of chatting to people in so many different countries. Though not quite like the informal banter that face-to-face games generate, the OOC stuff before a game formally starts (and during) is terrific.</blockquote>

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