After having seen my motivation levels for role playing seriously dip for the past five or six weeks or so, for one reason or another, I’m finally beginning to feel my interest and motivation returning and am beginning to think about actually doing some stuff for my current game – you know, the adventure that I’m currently running! I even did some work on The Kyngdoms the other day for the first time in ages. Not much, but something.
Such has been the level of my general dissatisfaction with gaming over recent weeks that I actually considered quitting it altogether. Simply sell all my stuff and be done with it. It was a serious consideration too, though thankfully not one that lasted for too long. I’m glad too, as I get a lot of pleasure from running a D&D game and have met a lot of good people who I otherwise wouldn’t have.
That’s the thing about role-playing. I’ve been playing a lot of computer games recently, but they’re very much an isolated gaming experience with no real interaction. Online gaming allows for more interaction, but still nonetheless remains very much a private experience. Role-playing on the other hand is outgoing, forcing you to interact with all manner of people and personalities. Generally this is a positive thing, though as I have discovered (in particularly recently) it isn’t always and can be hard work.
Hopefully I’ve seen my way through what has probably been the roughest patch of my being involved in role-playing and can start to look a little more positively at the future once again. Who knows?
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Jeez, I didn’t know your enthusiasm had dipped so low. Although it’s understandable given the assorted events of recent months – at the table and away from it.
I’ve recently started playing World Of Warcraft. It’s fun, but it’s definitely not the same as D&D. Not even 4ed.
And I agree – roleplaying has brought me into contact with people I generally never would have otherwise. Even if I think I’d like some extra spare time, or wonder how much that big pile of books would fetch on ebay, the enjoyment of the game and the people I play with have brought me back.
glag to see you are back in the gaming world again. I think alot of players and Dm’s get like that every now and again, the DND blues as we call them.
One thing about WOW and this is my view I started to play it for a month and really got into it but I found the lack of roll playing and just being around people was a big thing for me so I gave it up very quickly.