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General D&D Discussion / Re: What Would/Has Made You Quit The Game?
« on: July 20, 2012, 07:28:14 AM »
Quote from: NiteCyper on July 18, 2012, 01:50:44 AM
Your reminiscence, comparison, and belief that "these games were simply lacking something [that you] missed dearly" reminds me of this series of question and answers: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-most-new-music-starting-from-2010-just-plain-terrible .

And now, you've fear of commitment. The last gaming that you did was an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the magic. Maybe I should stop trying and just let it go, let it be. You hit your stride, and nothing's gonna match how it used to be. Is that it? I feel similarly in regards to interactive story-telling.

I won't deny that could be a big part of it. There are quite a few excuses in addition to that. Some of them along the way were stuff like 'I've moved 9 times in the last 8 years' and 'I've changed jobs so many times I feel like a gypsy'. Other excuses had to do with the area I lived in (the south), picking up new hobbies (adult hockey league). Now it's become 'Well, I just bought a house, so there is a huge list of "honey-do" things to do around the house. A lot of these boil down to 'time factor' being the big one. All-in-all, I'm just full of [lame] excuses. Maybe now that we've settled down, I'll get back into it.

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General D&D Discussion / Re: World of Warcraft ruined D&D!
« on: July 15, 2012, 09:42:37 PM »
Quote from: phaedrusxy on July 15, 2012, 05:51:22 PM
And in my experience, when you don't even have time for MMORPGs, you then resort to PbP games. :P

Sure. Once someone takes the time to get the rules down, PbP could be less of a time-sink to play.

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General D&D Discussion / Re: World of Warcraft ruined D&D!
« on: July 15, 2012, 05:46:59 PM »
Full disclosure: I play World of Warcraft and I haven't played tabletop RPGs in about 3 years (for all intents and purposes). Prior to that I had been playing DnD since 1989.

caelic has it right. His list of reasons outlining the time investment, between reading and memorizing the books, scheduling game time, and so forth, make MMORPGs much more popular. And the cultural acceptance plays a huge part of that. DnD did have a brief shining moment where it was talked about as the cool thing to do. Well, one less nerdy or strange than previously. WoW surpasses even the level DnD achieved in this regard.

Perhaps I simply don't have the grognard gene in me because I simply don't see DnD as having been ruined by WoW. Things evolve, and gamers are not excluded from that, nor are their tastes. I see that WoW and other MMORPGs have changed DnD and I believe much of that change is for the better. The more time goes by, the more of the little inane bits of really old DnD get rooted out.

I was unpacking my books and opened up both the 1ed and 2ed DMG and flipped through them. My lord there is a lot of ridiculous stuff in them. There is such a wide range of stuff between the extraneous complexity and the 'Nintendo hard' bits and pieces that I simply cannot fathom someone defending some of it as good.

(On the other hand, I'm glad the grognards are up in arms about it. Especially the part where they proclaim they won't buy new books. At least that makes less chance of their views regressing the game back to the old style.)

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General D&D Discussion / Re: What Would/Has Made You Quit The Game?
« on: July 14, 2012, 05:22:17 PM »
The most recent thing that triggered me to quit was death.

This was a couple of years ago.

I had moved to a new town and through trial and error I eventually found a group of like-minded gamers. Things were humming along pretty well, with me running the game for quite some time. When I got a little burned out, one of the other players would step in and DM for us or we'd play (the newly released) 4ed or we'd play some other indy RPG. This went on for a year or year and a half.

Then I got a call from an old friend back home. One of our very close friends had died in his sleep on a random Friday. He was 42.

This friend and I had gamed together from 1993, when we first met, until I left town in 2004. This got me to reminiscing about our games back home. Inevitably I compared the current gaming situation I was in with our older games. These games were simply lacking something. Something I missed dearly. After quite a bit of thought, I emailed the current group and let them know what happened and let them know that I was going to step back from the game for a bit. As mature gamers often are, they were understanding and offered whatever support they could, including an open invitation to come back to the game any time.

So here it is, three years later. Once in awhile I open up my old homebrew stuff and mess around with it or I'll post a little on a DnD message board. I've thought about getting back into it from time to time, but never really pursued anything. One never knows; the future is always open.

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Introduce Yourself / Hey!
« on: July 13, 2012, 09:01:53 PM »
New boards! I guess that shows how long it's been since I went to the old boards.  :blush


(edit to add)
Ok... I'll play along...

-Your name = Hammerface! (Just kidding.)
-Your favorite games = Stump!
-Your non gaming hobbies = Hockey
-Where you live, including country, without using abbreviations = New Britain, Connecticut, USA, Sol, Milky Way, The Universe.
-What other communities you belong to meetups, message boards etc = Technically speaking, a few dozen gaming and non-gaming places.
-Your twitter, facebook or G+ handle = What is that stuff? And get off my lawn you punks!

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