G. R. R. Martin Interview about his Pen and Paper Roleplaying Times

Mháire Stritter and TDE creator Werner Fuchs interview George Martin at Worldcon 2017 in Helsinki.
The video starts with a German introduction but we switch to English at around 0:44

[@sacredbirdman]

All this happened just a train trip away from where I live and I didn't know! Man I'm mad.. but on the other hand I'm really glad people made and posted these videos so I can at least enjoy them =) Hope you enjoyed your stay in Finland =)

Thanks so much for sharing this!

[@ColonelBragg]

I could imagine George being into World in Darkness stuff

[@flochforster88]

Crazy that this is under 100 views, looking forward to listening to it in the car :)

[@orkcleavertv8383]

The English part starts at minute 1. Sorry for the German intro.

[@mrdink1399]

@@orkcleavertv8383 No need to apologize. This is a great interview!

[@ChiefGironca]

Daumen hoch!

[@muckymucks]

They start speaking English and GRRM interview start at 0:44.

[@jbill2986]

I wonder if he's played CD Projekt Red's epic "Witcher 3". The characters and dialogue/writing are amazing because the Polish seem to appreciate language and words like the Irish and authors.

[@element1111]

Planescape Torment still takes the cake for the best writing in an RPG. Witcher 3's production values are off the charts, though.

[@dmp1520]

Have u played ?

[@jbill2986]

@@element1111 been meaning to play that but keep forgetting cause it's hard to find. Thanks for the reminder ;)

[@jbill2986]

@@dmp1520 I'm a big gamer nerd. Spent tonight playing FF7 Remake. Been lovin FromSoftware (you can check my channel and for some reason "Funeral Pyres" from W3GoTY with both expansions in 2017 won't upload) so you can't imagine how thrilled I am for Elden Ring. Here's hoping CDPR's CPunk in September will be awesome too....my backlog is gigantic though prob cause I spend a lot of time reading GRRM, Erickson, and currently "The Last Wish" by Sapkowski.

[@chadwickerman]

I'm sure he's read the Witcher books. I doubt he's played the game. The game is fan fic and has little to do with the actual story as it takes place after the books if I recall correctly. If his friend Sapkowski didn't like the story and writing for the games, which he didn't, I doubt Martin would either. As far as video games, Martin said he quit playing video games a long time ago because they are addictive and he'd waste so much time on them.