Last weekend, while getting together to play the Adventure Club adventure, we had the opportunity to check out a new gaming tavern. AFK Tavern bills itself as being the kind of place where you buy a drink, sit around a table, and play RPG games; it sounded like our kind of place. While, as the site says, they are undergoing stress testing and implementing fixes we found ourselves a bit unprepared to take advantage of playing outside of our own normal habitats.

I pondered this question for several days before writing this post, and came up with a lot of examples of historical figures I’d never want to game with. Ganges Khan, for one. In the end, though, I’m forced to say that I would like to share my gaming table with The Bard. Yes, Shakespeare, though I don’t believe he gets any bardic music abilities, which is a real shame.

Sometimes authors make up words. Shakespeare personally added 3000 words to the English language, and since we still use many of them, he’ll never be surpassed. But I still get the impression that Stephenson wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject. And it’s gotten me thinkin’.