I thought I might have come to this type of gaming too late and would never really get it.Ī map of Storia, the setting for ‘No Thank You, Evil!’ So, while I’ve participated as a player in a few campaigns and acquitted myself reasonably well, I definitely needed the GM to lead me and definitely didn’t want to GM myself, no matter how good a story idea I had. I’ve been much more comfortable with storytelling games like Dixit and Gloom. Though I love storytelling and board games, when it comes to RPGs, I have trouble figuring out the boundaries: when I can just make stuff up and add it to the story and when I have to roll to see if my idea will work or not. The rest of us have been a little intimidated by the idea up until now.įor me, I’ve found most role-playing games a strange mixture of unstructured and rule-bound.
My husband is the RPG player in our family.
