I play the MMO Star Wars the Old Republic - but it doesn't cut into my pen and paper RPG time. I love the MMO, but I agree that MMOs will never catch up to pen and paper games. You get a limited choice of characters which many others also play, all carbon copies. Your role playing is extremely limited, even on so called RP servers. It takes little if any imagination. So online games cannot compare.
Another child of the 70s I played D&D in one version or another most of my life until I was about 35. Then I dropped out of playing an RPG for about ten years. I discovered Pathfinder in '09 through an old friend and have been playing regularly ever since.
Why play? I am a 51, disabled woman who is very creative. It has to go somewhere, why not my home brew game? I love adventure paths, so I run one of those too. I am currently playing in Wrath of the Righteous, which appeals to my "knight in shining armor" heroic fantasy interests. It's in my blood. I can't not play.
Well, off to prep for Sunday's Giantslayer campaign. Then some Star Wars. All in a day's "work".
