WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin lit a fire under Martin Hywood, a charity worker with a similar condition who's raised over £300,000 since his diagnosis

Ibelin speaks with a friend while fishing in World of Warcraft's Stormwind City canals.

I recently had the opportunity to attend a roundtable discussion around The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, hosted by the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK. In case you're unfamiliar, the documentary centers around WoW player Mats Steen, who died in 2014 due to Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting condition with a life expectancy of around 20 to 30 years.

It's an emotional journey to watch, to be sure, but I was also deeply impacted by the speakers at the roundtable itself, all of which found a deep connection to the story and the way it was told. I had a follow-up chat with Martin Hywood of Muscular Dystrophy UK, who was diagnosed with limb-Girdle muscular dystrophy in 1996, and has raised a staggering £300,000 for research into conditions like his over the course of his life.