Is D&D a lifestyle for you?

[francisca]

So, I think this needs a poll. Is D&D a lifestyle for you? Please take the poll and discuss!

While this poll was inspired by Wizard's stage III D&D "lifestyle" bullet point, please go ahead and include all RPGs in your decision.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

It's probably the non-essential thing I spend most money on, and it's my favorite form of entertainment, but other life obligations make it so I do not spend that much time on it (damn 24 hours days!)

AR

 

[bubbalin]

I put no, having never played D&D, but I'm trying to get in a game, and I play other D20 games...
Hence my presence. Perhaps you should have asked the question differently or put other lesser options...

 

[ph34r]

It's a small, though important, part of my life. I spend time on it when I can.

 

[d4]

I put no, having never played D&D, but I'm trying to get in a game, and I play other D20 games...

i took "D&D" to mean all role-playing games, because i think that was his intent.

role-playing is one of the few hobbies i have, and luckily the only one that really costs any money (for the books). also, i've been gaming for over 20 years now, so i'd say it's a large part of my life.

 

[Altalazar]

Now I listed it as a small part of my life. I used to spend a lot of my free time on it. I used to game 2-3 times per week. I don't have any free time these days, so I can't game at all.

When my time becomes freer, though, I will get back into it. Then I'll just have to see what else might end up limiting my time with it.

 

[MerakSpielman]

It's a big part of my life, a majority of my free time is spent on D&D.

Especially if you count spending time here.

 

[Asmo]

D&D is one of my top 3 games, the other two is Magic:the Gathering and Talisman the board game (2 ed). And yes: I play only once in a week but I would love to play more often, so I guess it´s a big part of my life.

Asmo

 

[dreaded_beast]

Depends on how you look at it, in regards to myself.

Before I started playing DnD, (around the same time that I just started going out with my girlfriend) I was lucky enough to have a fairly decent social life: I had different groups of friends that I would hang out with and go out fairly often, mainly to the local night clubs (I love to dance, heh).

Anyways, as the years passed and I grew more comfortable with my girlfriend, I started losing contact with my friends (wanting to spend more time with her; while I still have a few "friends", only a few are left that I would consider "close") and going out less frequently.

However, the only constant was playing DND, which I actually made the time and effort to keep an active part of my life, as oppossed to the above. Nowadays, I find DND night to be the "going out" night of my life, the other days and nights spent either at work, school , at home just relaxing or with my girlfriend.

When I stop to think about it, a lot of my "wandering" thoughts tend to gravitate towards DnD. I would say that from a very black and white point of view, I pretty much just do work, school, girlfriend, or DND. I'm fairly happy, so I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, hehe.

I don't know if I would say that DND is a "lifestyle" for me, but thinking about it, I would say it is a VERY big part of my life for the past couple of years.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I voted that it's a big part of my life. I've been playiung RPGs for 22+ years, I currently have a second job which pays for my RPG and comic books (that's pretty much the only reason I keep that job), I spend a god portion of my waking hours either online or reading RPG books, I play in 1 regular and 2 irregular games, I have a game room in my house, and I'm currently an Ennnies judge. I think that qualifies as a big part of my life. I do other things as well (softball, hiking, work, etc) so it's certainly not the only thing in my life.