Men's Group

enjoy the escapist fantasy aspect of the game. It was basically a computer game before you had the computer. I still love that sort of stuff.

I read a lot of Science Fiction, but I couldn't get into Fantasy in terms of reading; don't know why- I think I had, up to a point in my life, a very literal sort of brain about that kind of thing... I could escape into it through a game, but for some reason if I was going to read about it I had to understand the logic or the rationality behind the world and the story... Science fiction, okay, yeah, it's the future, it's technology, maybe it's an outlandishly improbable combo of those; but at least there's a logical path where you presumably get there from something sort of like here. Middle Earth, I was like, what the fuck is that? What's the relation to our reality? I didn't get it. (Later my mental doors got cracked open a bit more -probably the drugs- and it wasn't a problem anymore. I've really been enjoying the George RR Martin stuff lately.)

And my wife was the opposite; never got into Sci Fi, never played D&D but was a major LOTR fan.

Computers, too- I remember the Commodore 64, The TRS-80, the Apple II. How funny that, in those days, "computers" were something only the MAJOR nerds - kids like me- were interested in. For kids now, I mean, if you're not at least moderately connected, you're the one who is out of it.