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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gregweller" data-source="post: 310149" data-attributes="member: 879">I think that this might be the heart of the problem right here. I remember a thread from awhile back that talked about who actually *plays* the game, and who actually *thinks* about playing the game. And if I recall correctly, there were a lot of people who never play the game for a variety of reasons, but one of the reasons was that some people just prefer to think about it and never do it.  It's almost a kind of meta-gaming in a way.  I remember something similar to this (at least I think the concept is similar) during my college days.  Now this was actually before there was DnD.  There was a book called 'Trout Fishing in America' by Richard Brautigan, that a bunch of us loved.  It wasn't about trout fishing, really ...but it was, in a sense about the idea of trout fishing in a late-60s druggie sort of way. So every year for 3 or 4 years, when the opening day of trout fishing season opened, we'd go out trout fishing in America. Not trout fishing, but trout fishing in America -- it usually involved dropping acid and having long conversations about what we would be doing if we were trout fishing. You kind of had to be there, I guess. I guess my point is, if the idea of playing still gives you pleasure, if you still enjoy reading about it and fantasizing about what you would do if you were playing, you're still getting something out of it.  So don't get caught in the trap of thinking that you *have* to play the game to enjoy the game.  One more example--I love reading about the game of Go, but I don't have the slightest desire to play the game of Go.</blockquote>

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