Played a lot of RPGs myself. How about Traveller – I remember collecting lots of those little black rule books, but hardly playing it at all. Or there was Bushido where you could get more from ritually disembowelling your character than from killing the monsters. Or post-apocalyptic games like Gamma World & Twilight 2000 which perhaps seem the most fantastical in the post-cold-war world.

D&D’s the all-time classic though. And all of them beat any possible technological alternative – a bunch of mates around a table collectively creating an imaginary world is just so much more fun.

Right, I’ve got my dice, my squared paper and my lead orcs, when do we start?

I’ve played various fantasy type games over the years, and even some Live Action ones as well. Call of Cthulhu became a Friday evening game some years ago, but I moved. I miss those games.

You got a good way of working this across international boundaries?