As a balance to the piece I put together a few weeks ago I thought I should discuss what attracts me to games in the first place. To consider that I have to make a small confession: I'm an old school White Wolf and Call of Cthulhu* fan. I dabbled with gaming in my teens but got turned off by the relentless dungeon crawling and work for hire nature of it - and to date only my friend Phil's Warhammer game has held my interest even though it is in that mode. It was only in 1994, when I went off to university, that I tried the hobby again, this time with a game of Vampire: the Masquerade, which was quickly followed by Call of Cthulhu, SLA Industries, Werewolf: the Apocalypse and Mage: the Ascension. And I enjoyed playing them. This is the point at which I got stuck... I just could not conjure up into words what works for me in gaming, except 'not that other stuff I don't like'. I could say stuff about interaction, easy gear lists, character generated plots but... real...