You and I both play a lot of RPGs, Alrik. I played Tabletop RPGs for years, and you still do. Was any of it ever about power to you? It never was to me, and I would absolutely describe myself as a Power Gamer (That's high level, high challenge! :)). It's about being a part of the story, isn't it? About helping to create a tale you enjoy.
RPGs exist for the same reason novels do - sheer escapism.
Or are you secretly a tinpot tyrant who yearns to rule all with an iron fist?
I suspect you are not
Way back when the usual bunch of uninformed scaremongers were running around screaming about the evil of RPGs, Games Workshop even produced a massive pack of information as a counter-campaign. Did you know that role players are amongst the least violent and least criminally inclined group around? It was so in the 80s, and I doubt it's changed too much since
