I'm A Board, Let's Game!

Video gaming was a huge part of my life since I was able to hold a paddle and though life has made gaming more difficult for me to sit down and enjoy, I still consider myself a hardcore gamer at heart. But no longer do I consider myself just a hardcore video-gamer. I am both a hardcore video-gamer and tabletop-gamer. I learned about tabletop gaming as a young kid, as is custom for young American kids. But I didn't learn about tabletop games other than Monopoly, Trouble, and Trivial Pursuit until about ten years old. When I discovered Stratego and Risk, they opened up a whole new world for me. I never wanted to stop challenging people to Stratego and just like baseball; I kept statistics in my head of my winning percentage for years. Gladly, it was very easy to keep track of my winning percentage for my first couple of years because it was 100%. I never once lost at Stratego until one day my friend Rick and I played and we were both down to just a couple bombs, a few movable guys, and our flags. I knew where his was and he knew where my flag was. It was a matter of getting your few remaining, weak troops across to capture the flag. I tried to distract him at one point when I saw he was definitely going to get to my flag first, I planned to switch my flag, but he would not fall for the trick and that goddamn sonovabitch took my flag and my proud 100% winning percentage with it! I was so mad and I still am today that I lost to someone who didn't really even care for the game. As for my skill at Risk, I didn't bother keeping those statistics long because I rarely ever won. For years I played these games and games similar and they made me develop a disturbing passion for RPG games in my video game world and even eventually led to my becoming very much obsessed with playing Dungeons and Dragons. But that is a story for another time. For now, I am bored, and I'm gonna go game!