(S6) - Weekend PT 4 - Game Night

[ExemplaryChad]

Well, after a recent media expose, it’s no secret that I like to do some roleplaying. It can really take just about any form, from the classic Dungeons & Dragons to something more modern like superhero-based rulesets. So when we have some downtime in the Yeti locker room, I like to run some quick sessions for my teammates. It’s mostly D&D, but sometimes we like to change it up. We even occasionally get visits to our sessions from players on other teams. (They must have heard about my legendary adventure-running skills.) Dan Miller particularly likes to swing by when the Sabercats come to town. It feels kind of like World War I, where the soldiers ran out of ammo and orders, so they just sat down to play cards in between trying to kill each other. Anyway, I like to run games with some moral ambiguity, no clear good guys or bad guys, and I like to think that those lessons apply to life. It’s not so helpful on the football field, where we’re supposed to look at the other guys as the enemy, but IRL, it’s naive to look at the world as good guys and bad guys. I like to think I don’t just run roleplaying games; I’m handing down life lessons to these guys.

Haruki Ishigawa

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