Tabletop roleplaying games are not just sets of rules or patterns of cliches. They are a narrative form in and of themselves.

Tabletop games offer a blend of storytelling and interaction that other mediums simply don't

Aidan Molins spent an evening in Much-better-than-middling Earth

Archaeologists have found ancient artefacts at a digsite in Gibraltar which show that citizens of the Roman Empire regularly met for dice games at which they would roleplay as twenty-first century, middle class workers with tedious jobs and mortgages. Professor Archie Hats from the Oxford School of Archaeology spear-headed the latest excavations, and said that…