And, on top of all this, not all of these things are necessarily true about all tabletop role-playing games.

Some of us have written setting developments which are intended for audiences of much larger size, whether it be role-playing LARP groups of 25 to 30 or for publication to the entire industry of hundreds to thousands. Simultaneously, there are tabletop RPGs which require and demand no set up at all from anyone – just the players at the table create the experience and the world in which they are playing as part of play.

Some games are prone to long, sprawling sessions of more than eight hours at a sitting, some are very traditional in sticking to 4 to 6, and some are hyper-focused on providing a very specific experience within the course of an hour or two. Some games particularly focus on campaigns which run for tens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of individual sessions – and some are intended to be one shots where the players engage in this one momentary story and never come back to it.

A number of well-known science fiction and fantasy writers got their start playing role-playing games and fictional lysing those experiences, Stephen Brust effectively just translated his variant D&D world into the Dragonaera Chronicles. I wouldn't even want to start trying to figure out how many science fiction stories over the last 30 years or more got kicked off by people's Traveller campaigns.

Not trying to step on your toes, but tabletop RPG and wargame design is kind of my thing and I like to remind/inform people that the hobby may be dominated by very traditional game architectures but there is a vast diversity of available ways and means to play, some of which are often superior to what mainstream expectation is.

I do have a Tabletop Role-Playing Community on the Steem blockchain, making some use of the Community mechanics we have in place (though real life things got in the way of producing content over the last couple of weeks), so if people have interest in tabletop RPGs, feel free to pop over there and drop a line. I'm hoping to get back on the horse with content at least twice a week coming up soon.