Some thoughts...
So here I am, sitting in the foyer of the Cobb Galleria Center, bored because traffic forced me to miss my first seminar of the morning. (Although the jury is out on whether or not I will be bored IN the seminar or not. Part of why I'm grateful to my wife for letting me borrow her laptop. It is lighter, has greater battery capacity, and less prone to random shutdowns due to overheating than mine.
But I got to digging around some stuff, and I've been digging around in general lately...at stuff relating to me. I've wondered why I've felt restless. Part of that is doing nothing for the entire summer, and being more than ready to go back to work on Monday. But I've realized now that there's been something I've wanted to do for a very long time. So long, in fact, that I don't think I've done this since playing games with Matt Howe in high school.
I want to game. I don't want my gaming to be solely restricted to computers. I don't want it to be a combination of MMORPGs, RP servers on MMORPGs, MU*ing, and single-player RPGs on console or PC. I love all of those things, but I want more. I want to go somewhere, to a restaurant, or house. I want to PLAY. I want to roll a character and let that character explore the world and wiles of someone ELSE's mind. I want that character to affect the game world on more permanent and unchanging terms than in WoW for example. Sure, I killed Onyxia and rescued the Kingdom of Stormwind from her evil. But I went and did it again the next week, and the next week after that.
I want to play Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire: The Requiem, the Firefly RPG - I want to play CCGs, and I want to watch my Space Wolves sweep across a battlefield, bolters blazing as they fight for the glory of Leman Russ and the Emperor. I want to learn how to play my sinister Dark Elves, resurrect my Bretonnian Knights and let them ride foes to the ground.
Ok, so my wife is probably going to kill me....but as I was perusing the White-Wolf website I realized just how much I missed all that. It's been around 13 years since I was in high school. Which means it has been about 13 years since I was last called to be something other than a GM in a table-top RPG game. Less since I last played Warhammer...but if you're going to go in, go IN.
But I got to digging around some stuff, and I've been digging around in general lately...at stuff relating to me. I've wondered why I've felt restless. Part of that is doing nothing for the entire summer, and being more than ready to go back to work on Monday. But I've realized now that there's been something I've wanted to do for a very long time. So long, in fact, that I don't think I've done this since playing games with Matt Howe in high school.
I want to game. I don't want my gaming to be solely restricted to computers. I don't want it to be a combination of MMORPGs, RP servers on MMORPGs, MU*ing, and single-player RPGs on console or PC. I love all of those things, but I want more. I want to go somewhere, to a restaurant, or house. I want to PLAY. I want to roll a character and let that character explore the world and wiles of someone ELSE's mind. I want that character to affect the game world on more permanent and unchanging terms than in WoW for example. Sure, I killed Onyxia and rescued the Kingdom of Stormwind from her evil. But I went and did it again the next week, and the next week after that.
I want to play Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire: The Requiem, the Firefly RPG - I want to play CCGs, and I want to watch my Space Wolves sweep across a battlefield, bolters blazing as they fight for the glory of Leman Russ and the Emperor. I want to learn how to play my sinister Dark Elves, resurrect my Bretonnian Knights and let them ride foes to the ground.
Ok, so my wife is probably going to kill me....but as I was perusing the White-Wolf website I realized just how much I missed all that. It's been around 13 years since I was in high school. Which means it has been about 13 years since I was last called to be something other than a GM in a table-top RPG game. Less since I last played Warhammer...but if you're going to go in, go IN.