Why do i play games?
I love table-top roleplaying games, and have been playing for over 20 years. I began running games as a DM/GM about fifteen years ago, writing my own content and crafting every experience to my group.
Each game you’re telling a story, I may build the world and set the stage but it’s the players who drive the story through their characters and choices. Sometimes the stories are epic battles against the forces of unrelenting evil, sometimes they are sessions where no one can figure out a puzzle of unrelenting evil. Sometimes the players are the forces of unrelenting evil (happens more often than you think).
I can fondly recall the first creature I ever “one-shotted”, the first time that a DM brought me to tears with an incredibly plotted twist, the many, many times where the dice failed the aspirations of my character and landed me in more trouble. Those are also a part of the story: the ones you tell about the games you’ve played, and the friendships you’ve forged.