From the Journal: I'll be forever playing Role Playing games
I’ve written a lot of stuff in my life. Usually about comics, but a variety of other vastly unrelated topics. From Marketing to Product Growth to Finance to… yes even News. My love for writing really stemmed from my love of role playing games (yes, mainly D&D).
A little bit over 20 years ago, I was already a seasoned player when I put together my tribute for the 30 years of Dungeons & Dragons. My experiences back then, different as they might have been from the experiences of most I met afterwards, became the snowball that created an avalanche that helped shape my person.
Dungeons & Dragons was the medium that helped me shape memories and friendships that lasted me a literal lifetime.
The soul of my tribute can be extracted into probably a few lines (even though the tribute itself was lengthy).
Role Playing has been a part of me for the entirety of my life. It has helped me deal with situations fictional but also very real at an age where things that happen around us seem to be having a major impact inside of us.
Difficult days became more bearable because of a fire that we’d put on and a handful of friends around it pretending to be people that could deal with situations that bothered us in real life.
I wish I could say that I kept playing D&D but I can’t. But the lessons and skills I got as a kid rolling dice at a dark basement hiding from our parents, stuck with me till today.
All of this just to really say that
When I got my hands on Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Game by Fred Van Lente and Tom Fowler just brought up a thousand feelings and memories and you should expect a review very soon.
I am starting a session in one of the upcoming weeks with an online group.
Keep playing!