What’s the best thing to come out of role-playing games that isn’t a RPG? Modern videogames.
Sure, without tabletop RPGs, you would still have puzzle games, platformers, and first-person shooters, but games with roleplaying elements: characters that level up, gaining new abilities, going on adventures and having ongoing stories — those wouldn’t exist. Imagine no Fallout series. No Mass Effect. No Final Fantasy. No Pokemon.
Today, when someone talks of playing a RPG, they’re most likely talking about something on a computer or videogame console.
So my favorite RPG-playing celebrity is Stoya. She’s an occasional player in a D&D game that porn stars play in from time to time. She’s also Stoya. Not just a porn actor, she’s someone that’s in control of her own body and is an activist for women to be in control of their own bodies, which means she’s a person with a fantastic agenda: education. The Editor-in-Chief of The Verge writes “The questions our male readers ask Stoya continue to completely validate her column.” She has written for The New York Times, Esquire, the New Statesman, and Vice.