Eeek! They're leveling faster than me! Keep them AWAY!

So I ran across a public Plurk the other day that said:

“People who started later then me in WoW [World of Warcraft] are now higher level then me. ^^; Guess that’s the price of having a life. Good thing there’s a level cap.” (lol)”

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(I tried to cover this topic on a previous now-defunct blog called Role versus Player. What happened to that blog is a tragic story for another day.)

I became a tabletop role-playing game otaku very early in life. My cousin ran a simple D&D session when I was six and I became hooked. Not only did I use my birthday money to buy myself the red D&D Basic Set to run for cousins and friends, but I became hooked on anything vaguely RPG-ish, which at the time meant books like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, Lone Wolf (and Grey Star), TSR’s own D&D books, and J.H. Brennan’s Grail Quest. (I would have an interesting, unrelated encounter with J. H. Brennan many years later.)

By the time I started playing computer RPGs like Bard’s Tale and Might and Magic, I realized that there seemed to be two separate aspects of RPGs, implied by the name itself: Role-Playing and Playing Games.

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