The incomparable podcast, episode 26 for February 2011.

Welcome back to the incomparable podcast.

I am your host, Dan Moore, and sitting in for Jason Snow, who is in Espania, joining me on today's session, which is going to be about role-playing games.

We have quite a colorful cast of characters.

Returning to the Incomparable, Mr. Scott McNulty.

How are you, Scott? I'm wielding my

plus one wit. Anybody? No. Sorry. I got, I got, I got, you got to have to roll for Thacko on that one.

Oh. All right. Also returning to the podcast from his debut appearance on our video game episode,

Tony Sindelar. Hi, Tony. Hi. It's nice to be here. I think we made a strict no sound effects rule. I was not briefed.

And for his debut appearance on our on our podcast, Mr. Jason Tossy. How are you doing, Jason?

I'm okay. I didn't realize I was sort of come up with a role-playing joke.

Sorry, I could call you Game Master Jason Tossi.

That makes me a little better, because otherwise I was going to make some lame joke about failing my initiative role for coming with jokes or something.

I'm still working on it over here, okay?

Let that one simmer.

Yeah, or a lightly. So yeah, today we're going to talk about role playing games. Not the video game variety, but the classic tabletop, dice, pen and paper, hardcover

books, the smell of sweat and fear, that kind of good stuff.

And so I thought we just start off by talking a little bit about how we got into role-playing games and when we started that kind of thing and what kind of games we started playing.

So, Jason, how did you start playing role-playing games?

Hmm, let's see.

When I was about maybe 11 years old, I think, I went to school with this guy named Chris, who said to me one day,

Would you like to try Dungeons and Dragons?

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