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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 5392404" data-attributes="member: 4601">I'm Tyler Do'Urden, and I...*hate playing RPGs.  Seriously.  I cannot last more than a single session before going stir-crazy from boredom and frustration with 90% of the gamemasters I've played with.  There was one brilliant GM I played with in college who was an exception to this rule.*love running RPGs.  I've never been interested in MMORPGs... because I can't be the gamemaster.  That's the part I love.  Creating the world; the plots; and subjecting other people to them and watching their reactions.*am the simulationist to end all simulationists.  I'm obsessed with the rules and numbers behind the game, more than the game itself.  I fall down squarely on the Monte Cook side of the Cook/Mearls divide.  I took one look at 4e, and knew it wasn't for me (though I won't attack it, because it looks like a fantastic game for non-simulationists, and I don't necessarily consider being a simulationist to be a good thing, despite the fact that I am one.)*like Drizzt and Raistlin, and feel no shame in that.  Reading the DL and FR novels were a great way to cool my brain cells in college.*despite that, I can't read fantasy literature anymore.  It no longer interests me in the least. Though I'm still a huge fan of good, hard science fiction, especially David Brin, Neal Stephenson and John C. Wright.*my last three attempts at starting D&D campaigns were all flops.  In part due to my "simulationist" tendencies overriding the making of a good game.  And in part due to the interference of "real life"- you know, that thing that hits you after college ends.*As much as I like running RPGs, my true love are FFG-style board games- especially Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, which comes close to the perfect game design for me.  I'm also a shameless Settlers of Catan addict.*I live in nerd-topia.  When I tell a girl I'm dating here about D&D (which she's invariably never heard of), her first reaction is "That sounds like fun!  I want to try it!"  My girlfriend calls me to ask when we're going to go to the board game shop again, because she can't stop thinking about playing Settlers or Agricola.  On top of that, I can get a guy on a motor scooter to deliver burritos to my door; there's no social stigma for being a geek (because every "successful" young man around here is one too); and I can gawk at futuristic skyscrapers and ride zooming bullet trains. I love my life.*Despite the lack of success of my games, and my knowledge that my simulationist tendencies are pathological... I can't stop reading 3e D&D supplements and making lists of statistics.  It's a compulsion.  I guess it beats cocaine addiction.</blockquote>

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