Tabletop gaming changed my life in high school!

It literally kept me out of trouble, because I was no longer out running around with a crowd od near-hoodlum druggies. Instead, I was staying indoors with a group of friends. My parents approved a hell of a lot, of course! ... Mostly we played
The Fantasy Trip, which was similar to DnD, but its character generation & dice rolls were a lot more realistic. I continued tablegaming into college, but somewhere in the late '80s, but eventually dating and real-life stuff began to take over.
That's really great you are able to still keep gaming in this way, Arcry. It is really fun gaming with a group of others, You'd think it might be boring because it's so slow, right? A fight which takes 30 seconds in a videogame could take well over an hour with real dice rolls / book notations. But the truth is, time really does fly, because we were all having fun