Game of Life

My writing career has been intertwined with games since day one. Games have been part of my life for years - even as a child, games were popular in my home. My parents regularly bought games for us kids for Christmas, and we sat around the kitchen table playing Chutes and Ladders and Hi-Ho Cherry-O until I was old enough to handle more complex games like Battleship, Monopoly, variations of rummy and other card games, Yahtzee, Stratego, and many, many more.

I discovered Dungeons and Dragons during a school break when pre-teen me was spending a week with one of my brothers in the Big City. A college roommate of his had picked D&D up on a whim and was looking for people to help him try it out. We spent what seemed like hours creating characters, then he ran them through the adventure module included in the box (for those of you die-hard D&D fans, it was adventure B1: In Search of the Unknown.) Long story short, both our characters...

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