If I weren't roleplaying I'd be...

[Zappo]

Many years ago, I was getting back home from high school and I was thinking about a card game where each card would be different and it would represent a fantasy monster or something, and you'd fight your friends' monsters, and purchase random packs of cards to get stronger.

Then I said "aw, let's go play D&D instead". One year later, a little company known as Wizards of the Coast published Magic... need I say more?

More likely, I'm certain that I would be making videogames and bloody good ones at that. Though I'm afraid I would also be a lot less socially capable.

...I'd be alive and there wouldn't be a bald jumped up doctor running the mercenary company named after me.

Aw, but he's doing a remarkable job at cleaning up the rest of the guys who offed you.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Writing fiction.

Going to the gym. (It's not bad once you're into the swing of things, but it can be time consuming when doing it more than three times per week and doing cardio and weights)

Computers. Let's face it, with stuff like World of Warcraft out, RPGs aren't necessary any more. Want to get a game going? Hop online.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Aw, but he's doing a remarkable job at cleaning up the rest of the guys who offed you.

True, true. And they make pretty good popcorn and cocoa up in mercenary heaven but it's still frustrating to see one of my best soliders limited to the intelligence of a child while a doctor and my retired father are the ones finishing up the job I should of done myself.

Or something.

 

[Arnwyn]

Skiing more. Golfing more.

Actually getting to my massive backlog of video games and DVDs.

 

[der_kluge]

Yup, harp. After playing the trumpet, french horn, piano, and serving in our church's handbell choir, I thought the harp would be a neat challenge. Turns out I haven't had the time to find out. As for composing, yeah, I'm just an amateur as well, but it's lots of fun.

What kind of music do you compose? Do you handwrite it, or is there some sort of notation software that you use?

 

[diaglo]

dead or as a General.

i would've poured my interest in wargames into more constructive things. like school work.

not that i didn't get straight A's anyway... but i would've chosen more focused subjects.

completed high school and gone to the West Point or the Air Force Academy. instead of staying safe and close to University near home...

been a pilot or commander in the first Gulf War. and probably gone onto operations in Columbia, the Philippines, or other place of action in between battles... then fought in or been involved with the US operations in the former Yugoslavia...

and if i was still alive i'd be risking life and limb behind a desk at the Pentagon during this war.

 

[Napftor]

What kind of music do you compose? Do you handwrite it, or is there some sort of notation software that you use?

I suppose you might call it classical--I'm very theme-oriented and haven't branched into coupling music with lyrics (yet). My magnum opus so far is a four-movement suite for piano called "The Forest Folk Suite", wherein a bit of text is read before each movement (it tells a simple story about the elf-type beings who are attacked by giants, the forest folk king dies in the attack, and his daughter becomes the new monarch after the giants' defeat). I've also written two short pieces for handbells for my church.

As for software, I use a program called Music Write Plus (by Voyetra). If you want to compare notes, so to speak, feel free to email me: dmbretb (at) comcast (dot) net.

 

[EricNoah]

I am sitting here trying to imagine it... I guess for the parts of my adult life when I wasn't roleplaying, I was a) desperately looking for my soulmate, b) reading a lot more than I do now, c) pining for some RPG action, d) watching more TV. I think TV is the biggest thing that has taken a hit -- I'd rather tinker with D&D stuff on the computer than watch a show I'm only half-interested in.

 

[Brain]

If there were no RPGs, I'd be playing other games. Games games games etc.