Today I'll cover the last four subjects on the list, which range from the best thing that's not RPG related to come out gaming to the favourite game I no longer play.
So without further ado...
28: Favourite Game You No Longer Play: Well, the flippant answer is 'all of them' as its about two years since I stopped playing. That being said there are a few games I don't miss, either because I found them boring or because the settings or mechanics just didn't do anything for me. There are also games like the Laundry that, even though I love them, I would be quite selective over playing because I think the 'buy in' is too high for casual gamers. I must admit, too, that I'm drawn back to the first three games I played quite a lot; Vampire, Call of Cthulhu and SLA Industries and these are the games I miss the most.
If I were to boil it down to one game, then out of the three I'd have to say Vampire because its the one that brought be into the hobby and the one that chimes most clearly with my interests.
29: Favourite RPG Related Website or Blog: This is an easy one: RPG.net. I mostly lurk there, though I have started to post occasionally (I'm on there as clockwork cat, if you post there). There's a good bunch of people there and a wealth of knowledge and experience too.
The site is responsible for a few things I've taken to heart, including 'no gaming is better than bad gaming' and that problems with a player should be addressed outside the game rather than through in game punishments, (oh and 'kill them and take their stuff').
As this is my last post I'm also going to give a shout out to Order of the Stick, the only web comic I've kept reading and one that does an excellent job of celebrating and mocking Dungeons and Dragons.
30: Favourite Roleplaying Celebrity: Right... I'll be honest, I don't really care about celebrities or keep up with their hobbies, so I'm going to nominate someone I respect, who games, and is an author. I'm torn between three people; Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman, and Juliet McKenna. All three are wonderful authors and as far as I know committed gamers (Shadows of the Apt, Adrian's series grew out of his 'bug world' RPG and Juliet's gaming world became the one she writes about in her novels).
I'm going to have chicken out here and say I don't know which of them is my favourite as I respect all of them.
And finally:
31: Favourite Non RPG thing to come out of RPGs: My relationship.
I met my wife through RPGs, We started going out at that Mage game I mentioned a few posts ago, probably one reason it was so long was that we kept snogging when we should have been playing. Together we've gamed for nigh on 20 years, and have a weird thing where if I don't like a game, she usually doesn't either... usually for different reasons.
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