Gaming Withdrawal

[Kaodi]

I do not suppose anyone can recommend a Grandma-friendly way to entertain oneself when one is suffering from what I shall refer to as "game withdrawal" (though it could also be referred to as "boredom" or "laziness" potentially) and have few prospects of finding succour?

Most of my life I have played video and computer games... but I sort of gave those up those to two months ago. And with gas prices the way they are, I am not sure I want to get into any games where I would have to drive into town every week to play, assuming I could find one at all.

I need a good way to amuse myself with something related to what I enjoy that does not involve endless statting of characters I will never get to play. I mean, it is all well and good to create a kobold dragon sorcerer (in the hypothetical world in which I have PHB 2) from the city of Stormreach in Eberron who believes that the cities kobolds are really the dispersed soul of a powerful dragon who will be reawakened in the body of the last kobold in the city to remain alive, thus building up to an epic (well, paragon) duel to the death with Hasalaac Char, but what good is it if you never actually get to embark on that genocidal mission of virtually ensured hilarity?

P.S. Is there still such a thing as EN World chat?

 

[ggroy]

I do not suppose anyone can recommend a Grandma-friendly way to entertain oneself when one is suffering from what I shall refer to as "game withdrawal" (though it could also be referred to as "boredom" or "laziness" potentially) and have few prospects of finding succour?

Recently I was reading some cheesy 4E Forgotten Realms novels. For some strange reason, I found myself being captivated by such cheesy novels.

In the past, I always thought D&D based novels were largely crap. Basically the sci-fi/fantasy equivalent of "junk food".

 

[pawsplay]

You could try buying and reading used RPG books for cheap. And there's always fanfic.

 

[jonesy]

You could start a Story Hour thread here where you go over the games you've played in/run yourself.

 

[pawsplay]

Why don't you join an online game?

 

[Thagdal]

There's lots of forums and chatlines for online roleplay.

Plus DDO is free to play.

I'd be planning my next GM'd world/adenture.

 

[IronWolf]

I would take a serious look at online gaming. You could either do play-by-post or a virtual table top like MapTool. Play-by-post is slow but easily fits into varying schedules. VTTs these days are pretty nice, especially once you get used to them and provide a great gaming fix.

 

[Thanael]

When i suffered gaming withdrawal, I started reading more fantasy fiction, collecting and reselling gaming books and hitting the internet forums.

I also suggest play by post games run on forums, posting your statblocks in the relevant forums for others to use in their game or even writing up stuff for netbooks.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Go here to look for game recruiting

Talking the Talk - EN World: Your Daily RPG Magazine

Or here to see games being played.

Playing the Game - EN World: Your Daily RPG Magazine

I just started one here, my first.

 

[Jimlock]

watch/read LOTRs for the hundredth and one time, read D&D novels, watch the "game of thrones", start asking people around you if they want to play (people that are not necessarily aware of RPGs), look for a game in town and then decide about the gas, try to reach old gamers/friends, try online gaming, cry if need be, create your next campaign, reread some of your old D&D books, go out, buy some new dice, clothes even, do something else not related to gaming, see that it sucks and try feverishly to play again, visit hobby stores, find a full plate and wear it on a daily basis, perform a coup de grace on your neighbor's dog, go back to town and buy him a new dog, get yourself one, dress it in full plate too, listen to classical music and epic metal while imitating sword swings in front of your mirror, roll dice for no reason, roll a dice 1000 times and make a study about the results, rearrange your D&D shelves, go out, murder some 4e funs, come back in, teach your dog to play, play with him, go back to town...................

N.I.T.R.O

(as you can clearly understand... you are not the worst case scenario)