How Do You Enjoy D&D Away From the Table

[Reynard]

It occurred to me that there are more ways then ever to engage the hobby while not actually playing it. This poll is more about media and methods with borad applicability, but feel free to narrow down in the comments with more personal stuff.

 

[Henry]

Let's see...

• Posting online
• Consuming the occasional media like Crit Role or Glass Cannon Podcast
• Working on what to take for the next level of my PC while driving or in the shower
• Proselytizing to computer gamers at work when they ask about the foam polyhedral dice at my desk
• Sitting in very boring meetings, wishing I was playing D&D

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

If this is meant to have a formal poll, I’m afraid I’m not seeing it.

I guess the two most common ways I enjoy D&D when neither playing, running, or preparing, are YouTube videos and videogames. I tend to prefer advice, informational, and anecdotal ones over livestreams (which I generally just don’t have the blocks of time to watch). For videogames, it’s generally the Neverwinter MMO (though I’m hardly a hardcore player of it).

I will idly pick up and read one of the old TSR fiction line books, for nostalgia’s sake, now and then. Most of them don’t age all that well, but it does take me back.

Also, debatably, my music. I took an old unused campaign idea and pretty much started using that as the basis for the songs for a musical project of mine, Wurm Fang.

 

[Reynard]

If this is meant to have a formal poll, I’m afraid I’m not seeing it.

I got a 502 error after I put the poll in, so it's just a conversation now. [emoji6]

 

[ccs]

BSing about it online,
Prepping stuff for the next session or two.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Posting on forums, and game prep.

 

[Jester David]

Critical Role
Message Boards
Designing my homebrew world
Writing content for the DMs’s Guild
Painting minis (often while watching Critical Role)
Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
#dnd on Twitter
Planning campaigns I will never run
Reviewimg books on my blog / site
Drawing webcomics for my website

 

[Swarmkeeper]

Listening to Podcasts
ENWorld
Perusing DMs Guild for adventures to plug into our homebrew worlds
Updating private G+ community with session recaps
Reading Blogs
Session prep

 

[guachi]

Online discussions, which have to suffice when I don't have a game - like now.

Game/adventure prep, which I find really satisfying. As it turns out, I don't enjoy DMing on the fly or running one of those 4hr AL adventures for an AL session nearly as much as I do a game with prep work to it.

 

[Inchoroi]

I write for a 3rd party publisher...kind of envelopes all my free time, other than planning my actual campaign.