Formian Gaming

[pawsplay]

Sometimes I feel possessed by bizarre LN impulses to engage in activities that have little to do with live gaming. I remember being first afflected at age 10 with the urge to roll up dozens of characters, far more than I would have a reasonable use for even in the deadliest campaigns. I once filled a hundred room dungeon using only the random dungeon filler provided in the Red Box set.

I can't exactly explain why I like to stat things. Lots of things. Humorously, seriously, whatever. And conversions, don't get me started. Left alone in a room with two games, I will without fail start trying to convert one to the other.

I'm like a bizarre gamer of the Outer Planes, slowly converting and statting the entire multiverse.

 

[HoboGod]

Yeah, I find myself doing that, too, sometimes. I have nothing to do, so I create NPCs, advance monsters, add class levels to them, then do endless combat simulation to determine accurate CR, only to later throw them away because I have no real use for them. It's hard to pinpoint the source of this behavior, it seems quite alien even as I'm in the middle of doing it. Loved ones ask me what I'm doing and I feel almost frightened to tell them and quickly make up a lie.

 

[Alzrius]

When I saw this thread, I read it as "Fomorian Gaming" and was envisioning a group of ugly giants trying to squeeze around a table and play D&D.

It wasn't pretty.

 

[Verdande]

I do the same thing, except I write modules and games and stuff that nobody reads. Only recently have I gotten the idea to publish it- before that, I'd just detail worlds and draw maps that I never really thought anybody would even want to see before the advent of Twitter and good ol' blogging.

Is trying to get the worlds inside your head onto the outside world Lawful? I don't even know.

 

[Camelot]

I spend hours a day creating character sheets without any story attached. I just want character crunchiness. And I'm a DM!