From Elizabeth Belben, Nettlebridge, Somerset, UK
Jacob Aron says “video games offer something unique among media: choice” (10 October, p 32). I disagree. As he points out, if you are playing a shooter in a video game, you can’t decide to host a tea party instead – but in a tabletop role-playing game, you can do precisely that.
I speak as someone who, in my first ever Dungeons & Dragons session, derailed the dungeon master’s carefully plotted story of demonic possession via a magic ring by choosing to have my character chop her finger off.
