Thanksgiving Advent, Day Four: Role-playing Games

Almost forgot today's post! Well, I'll take my inspiration from the thing I'm about to run off and do, and say I'm thankful for role-playing games.

Yeah, you heard me; I'm about to go spend my Friday night being a gamer. (This is not at all a surprise to some of you.) RPGs are awesome, man! The way I approach them, they're collaborative storytelling, and let me tell you -- it is freaking amazing when stuff comes together, totally unplanned, into the perfect bit of story. Emergent narrative, to don my academic hat againt for a moment. I loves me a well-written novel, too, but when that stuff happens half by accident, it's extra cool.

And playing gives me a chance to explore different kinds of characters, in ways I can then bring back to my writing. So aside from the benefit to me, there's a benefit to you.

Now if you'll pardon me, I have go to pretend to be someone else. :-)