'Role-playing games offer laughter and life lessons'

Editor's note: Zheng Daojin, 28, is a reporter at a news agency in Beijing.

I first began playing one of the new role-playing games last year. I thought it was a good way to have more social interaction, rather than just a game.

When I go on business trips with people from other news agencies, we play card games to break the ice quickly. Usually we play in large groups of about 20 from early evening to the early hours.