Judith Hoffman, Executive Producer for Turbine has posted her November Producer Letter. Below is an excerpt from her article:
In many ways, role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons are the ultimate extension of this phenomenon, which we call "shared stories." RPGs go a step further than communal book-reading or movie-watching, because the participants don't just share the experience of the story - they take the adventure provided by the DM and run with it, creating a unique shared story as they progress. The fact that these stories are created by and unique to the players gives them more ownership of the story (their story) than a group of people who are just reading the same book or watching the same movie. |
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