Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 5696736" data-attributes="member: 1231">My life is going nowhere fast. I have a massive problem with procrastination and avoidance which has ruined my education most recently. Back in March I tried to solve my problems by quitting playing video games, my most beloved hobby (if you go by the hours I spent on it over the last twenty years), and I am doing my best not to go back. Ever. Unfortunately, quitting video games did not help me stop avoiding doing work, though it did free up a lot of time for other things. Now I wonder if I should give up RPGs as well. I spend far too much time fiddling with 3e and Pathfinder stuff with an abysmal amount of time spent playing RL games. Something like eighteen years of RPGs and no more than three of playing. The thing is... so much of it is just a kind of escapism, and I have already spent my lifetime quota of escaping at all of twenty-seven years old. D&D has undoubtedly helped my handwriting, and I have made a number of friends over the years through it, but I do not really think I have been getting from it what everyone else has. In fact, I would say the number one thing, maybe the only thing, preventing me from giving up on RPGs is that I value being a member of this community; the EN World community. I have been around since the days of Eric Noah's 3rd Edition News, and as anyone can see I re-registered in the aftermath of the Great Crash, back in January 2002. I do not want to quit the community, though there is not a heck of a lot to follow here other than the rather sparse Media and Technology forum.A lot of fantasy and science fiction is going to get thrown on the fire as well. No more D&D novels other than maybe Weis & Hickman, perhaps Baker. Continue reading The Wheel of Time, the Chronicles of Ice & Fire, Feist's Midkemia.  The classics like Tolkien and Lewis will of course still be permitted. But that will be the criteria. Classic, or quality.A professor of mine actually lamented in class once that people have forgotten how to enjoy leisure. I think I will write him soon to discuss this point in more depth. For myself though I am not sure I can afford this any longer. Fiction is not the enemy, but if it does not teach you something, or set your imagination on fire, then what is the point? No more time sinks or I am sunk.So I am left with having to consider quitting. Not because I think D&D is a waste of time in itself; I do not think social games are necessarily a waste. But rather because it increasingly seems to be a waste of time for me. Is it possibly to give up and still belong here?</blockquote>

Verification