I Am A Gamer   I am a gamer. I spend my evenings and weekends
holed up in cavernous basement rooms consulting sourcebooks and
to-hit charts, or running around parks and community centers in
full makeup and costume playing rock-paper-scissors at various
intervals. I spend my paycheck or my allowance on the latest
games and supplements and mounds of polyhedral dice which have a
way of turning up in the oddest places around my house or
apartment. I have hundreds of stories about games I have played
and characters I have known, some of which are actually
interesting and funny to other people. I am a gamer, and this is
how I spend my free time.   I am a storyteller. I practice a
dying art. But my stories are even better than ghost stories
around a campfire, because they are completely interactive. My
friends and I play Let's Pretend, just the way we used to as
children-we become the intrepid hero, the plucky princess, the
wise old man. They let people live another life and, in the
process, discover things about th