::scr hacking in life

[Simon Wistow]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:34:12PM +0000, Greg McCarroll said:
> you want to start roleplaying Simon, bad campaigns involve killing
> orcs, good campaigns (imho) involve robbing banks, assasinating people and
> toppling governments - it takes a while to understand the campaign
> world and get immersed, but once you do its wonderful 


Good case in hand. Role Playing is, traditionally, a very geeky past
time.

I'd suggest several reasons  (none of which are necessarily correct):

* there's a level of detail, finickityness and dedication needed that is
similar to that needed by programmers.

* geeky people tend to be read lots of science fiction which provides a
lot of the prerequisite memes and background and also indicates a
willingness/desire to escape from the comparatively mundane Real World
[tm]

* you get to do all this sort of escapist life hackery stuff which could
very well, again, be a geek trait.


Or I could be speaking out of my arse.




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