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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1885688" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>I was thinking about this, obliquely, myself last night while I was coming home from work, since my car stereo died and I didn't have anything else to distract me.</p><p></p><p>I've been a fan of the fantastic all my life. The very first book I ever got at the library, back when I was like four or so, was about dinosaurs. I had no idea what dinosaurs were, but I saw those pictures of strange, exotic, jinormous monsters, and I feel instantly in love (I'm still a huge dinosaur fan to this day -- I can almost read the technical papers about them.) My favorite Disney movie as a little kid was always <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> -- it had magic, swords, knights, and most of all, this big-ass dragon. I don't know if a love of fantasy can be hard-wired into my personality or not, but it starts as early as I can remember, so if not, there's not much meaningful distinction between that and what I actually am.</p><p></p><p>And my favorite assignments in grade school were always the Creative Writing assignments. I've always love to write, and to stretch my imagination. Again, I don't know if being a storyteller is a hard-wired condition or not, but clearly it's been something with me for a long time. I still write, although naturally I'm a dabbler, not an author or anything significant. In fact, I'm generally more interested in writing fantasy than I am even in reading it anymore.</p><p></p><p>D&D -- and other roleplaying games too -- provides an easy avenue, then, to indulge two aspects of my personality that are extremely deeprooted and fundamental to who I am. I think I would have naturally gravitated to the hobby.</p><p></p><p>I don't play for escapism. I don't play to vent frustrations of my regular, dull, office-haunting worklife. I don't even play to explore aspects of my philosophy, beliefs or attitudes. Not that I don't indulge from time to time in all of those things, but to me, playing RPGs is such an obvious extension of such basic fundamentals of my personality that I was doomed to be a gamer, I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1885688, member: 2205"] I was thinking about this, obliquely, myself last night while I was coming home from work, since my car stereo died and I didn't have anything else to distract me. I've been a fan of the fantastic all my life. The very first book I ever got at the library, back when I was like four or so, was about dinosaurs. I had no idea what dinosaurs were, but I saw those pictures of strange, exotic, jinormous monsters, and I feel instantly in love (I'm still a huge dinosaur fan to this day -- I can almost read the technical papers about them.) My favorite Disney movie as a little kid was always [i]Sleeping Beauty[/i] -- it had magic, swords, knights, and most of all, this big-ass dragon. I don't know if a love of fantasy can be hard-wired into my personality or not, but it starts as early as I can remember, so if not, there's not much meaningful distinction between that and what I actually am. And my favorite assignments in grade school were always the Creative Writing assignments. I've always love to write, and to stretch my imagination. Again, I don't know if being a storyteller is a hard-wired condition or not, but clearly it's been something with me for a long time. I still write, although naturally I'm a dabbler, not an author or anything significant. In fact, I'm generally more interested in writing fantasy than I am even in reading it anymore. D&D -- and other roleplaying games too -- provides an easy avenue, then, to indulge two aspects of my personality that are extremely deeprooted and fundamental to who I am. I think I would have naturally gravitated to the hobby. I don't play for escapism. I don't play to vent frustrations of my regular, dull, office-haunting worklife. I don't even play to explore aspects of my philosophy, beliefs or attitudes. Not that I don't indulge from time to time in all of those things, but to me, playing RPGs is such an obvious extension of such basic fundamentals of my personality that I was doomed to be a gamer, I think. [/QUOTE]
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