Why are role-playing games so engaging to children?
There’s an awful lot of detail in roleplaying games, and the game is very personal to the players. This is because the imagination is very actively, directly engaged and self-identification takes place between the player and the player’s character. Plus, there is the social element. For example, there are some people in my life whom will never escape the caul of my having gamed with them: Sean Healy will always in some way be Shaglan Landrover to me, or Sir Eoin, and Gary Nistler will always be Ahira Dwarf. I think of them as friends first and role-players second, but the role-playing has made long-lasting impressions and memories that will literally last the rest of my life.
