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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6545410" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>That's a given, in my opinion. When I was in college, I would easily spend 5 to 6 hours PER DAY planning campaigns, writing about my homebrew worlds, reading Forgotten Realms material, and not being on message boards, because They didn't exist, and I wouldn't discover Usenet forums like rec.games.frp.dnd for at least five years into the future. My extracurricular activites WAS D&D.</p><p></p><p>Now, I have a wife, to whom I have commitments, I have 4 pets that I didn't have back then who require doctor visits, grooming, and other regular attention; I have obligations to family or a friend occasionally, I contribute to community computer clubs and events, I occasionally put in 9 to 11 hours at work if a project needs it; and then Isurf tech sites to stay current or put in an hour or 3 spinning up a new VM to get hands-on with new technology I'm interested in (lately it's been Katello, but it still doesn't feel ready for Prime Time, though it's pretty cool.) once a week for 4 hours straight, I am PLAYING an RPG, rather than planning one.</p><p></p><p>As a result, I maybe have 4 horus a week total that i could be plotting RPG stuff - a half hour here, an hour there, not at all regularly scheduled. The more resources I have at my disposal that I can Plagiarize and outright steal, the better. If I have to make it up whole cloth, with very few correctly done examples to inspire me, the harder it is to plan. Matter of fact, a lot of times instead of planning a D&D game or looking for a 5e group, I'm trolling here instead (or GITP, or WotC) looking for advice or inspiration (no pun intended) for 5e. Hopefully the Princes of the Apocalypse stuff will give me more than the Tiamat storyline did, or I can alter another company's product (such as Giantslayer or older TSR modules) to fit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 6545410, member: 158"] That's a given, in my opinion. When I was in college, I would easily spend 5 to 6 hours PER DAY planning campaigns, writing about my homebrew worlds, reading Forgotten Realms material, and not being on message boards, because They didn't exist, and I wouldn't discover Usenet forums like rec.games.frp.dnd for at least five years into the future. My extracurricular activites WAS D&D. Now, I have a wife, to whom I have commitments, I have 4 pets that I didn't have back then who require doctor visits, grooming, and other regular attention; I have obligations to family or a friend occasionally, I contribute to community computer clubs and events, I occasionally put in 9 to 11 hours at work if a project needs it; and then Isurf tech sites to stay current or put in an hour or 3 spinning up a new VM to get hands-on with new technology I'm interested in (lately it's been Katello, but it still doesn't feel ready for Prime Time, though it's pretty cool.) once a week for 4 hours straight, I am PLAYING an RPG, rather than planning one. As a result, I maybe have 4 horus a week total that i could be plotting RPG stuff - a half hour here, an hour there, not at all regularly scheduled. The more resources I have at my disposal that I can Plagiarize and outright steal, the better. If I have to make it up whole cloth, with very few correctly done examples to inspire me, the harder it is to plan. Matter of fact, a lot of times instead of planning a D&D game or looking for a 5e group, I'm trolling here instead (or GITP, or WotC) looking for advice or inspiration (no pun intended) for 5e. Hopefully the Princes of the Apocalypse stuff will give me more than the Tiamat storyline did, or I can alter another company's product (such as Giantslayer or older TSR modules) to fit. [/QUOTE]
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