Why Role Playing Games are Awesome

Paul Maplesden
5 min readNov 12, 2017

Problem solving. Social skills. Exploration. Connection.

Tabletop roleplaying is a hobby that means an enormous amount to many people around the world. It combines excitement, problem-solving, characterization, shared storytelling and more, inviting groups of friends together to join in fantastical quests in mythical lands.

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Paul Maplesden

Tea-drinking, hat-wearing, game-playing, science-loving, professional-writing, armchair philosopher.