Video games. They’re a billion-dollar industry. Check the data and you’ll see a bunch of trends pointing upwards. People like them. But why?

Sometimes comedy cuts to the truth. I’ve talked about the mental health benefits of D&D before, but this sitcom episode does a better job of showing it. At least, it used to, before it was deleted by cowards.

Two warped ideologies, each insidious in its own way. I reckon that, as a roleplaying gamer, you’re less likely to believe either of them.

The last several years have seen some, shall we say, questionable choices from big studios. How did they miss this lesson that every TTRPG gamer knows?

Scifi and fantasy like to give us allegories - tales of the time dressed up in the fantastical. Yawn, boring, give me something new please. If you’ve run too many games to be excited by the same-old mush, then read this.

Unfulfilled, thanks to your office job? There’s a neurological antidote to the drudgery of paperwork, and you get no points for guessing what I’ll say it is.

You’ve heard that you don’t see the world as it is, only as you are. So why are you such a bad GM, not to mention a bad global citizen?

Let’s say your character knew a path to greater power - even godlike power. It’s not even a dark ritual, because they can acquire it while make the world better. They’d go for it, right? So why won’t you?

I have a record for being socially progressive… so why am I ignoring impassioned pleas to end cultural appropriation? What, “because they’re ridiculous” isn’t a good enough reason?

Dungeons and Dragons isn’t just a game. Even games aren’t “just” games - they’re connections into something greater than even ourselves.

Tabletop adventures are “just” games, they say. I say, games are no small thing. Here’s how and why they can transform not only lives but entire societies.