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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 164176" data-attributes="member: 158">I play for the women. Yep, the sheer number of hot women who fawn all over me when I tell them that I play D&D. That made me a gamer for life. <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=":)" />Seriously,Is this a "big" paper or a "little" one? You could always post a series of interview questions and ask us to participate.As for me, The main reason I play is because the hook of writing or "starring" in fantasy adventure stories has always appealed to me. In real life, I will never explore ruined treasure storehouses, or save innocents from certain slaughter - even if I were presented an opportunity in real life to do so, I honestly don't know if my selflessness would rise to the challenge. However, I like to THINK I would, and D&D lets me exercise this part of my overactive imagination. To take a larger-than-life character, become them in pretend and participate in the sharing of treasures, glory, and fighting for Right really appeals to me. I continue to play because of the friendships I have with the people I meet around the gaming table. These are people I share interests with, we listen to similar music, we make and "get" jokes about the same topics, we socialize, we go out to eat together, and have the same sort of interactions that other people do at football parties and at live football games.I don't know if this may figure into your paper or not, but I had a minor epiphany recently. The Gaming Table and the Gaming Convention have replaced the Elk's Lodge or Moose Lodge gatherings that was very prevalent from the 1950's to the 1970's. Whereas the post-war community had clubs and lodges to foster community and friendship, the information age has bred gamers, sci-fi fans, and hobbyists of all sorts who form community bonds all their own. I know of very few families in my area whose children and grandchildren have become new Moose Lodge or Elk Lodge brethren. It is a brand new form of community organization, but has a form totally different from what came before, and one more open to membership by all races, creeds, and genders. The common bond in this case is not war or blue-collar background, but a love of sci-fi or fantasy.</blockquote>

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