"It's just a game."

[MonsterMash]

Make mine a solid 2. I can play other stuff, but I think more about RPGs when I'm not playing them than say Munchkin or Monopoly.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's central to my practice of Satanism.





















What? What?

 

[KB9JMQ]

3.5 ???
I voted 3 but am closer to 4.
Anything I do that is considered a hobby, relaxing, time to myself, etc is likely to be connected to D&D.

 

[Oryan77]

My real life is just a game. I play D&D to rest up between sessions.

 

[Gnome]

I voted #3: dedicated hobby. Right now it's my only real creative outlet, which seperates it from any other kind of game for me.

 

[davidschwartznz]

I would have said 2 or 3, but since I've started freelancing it's moved up to a 4. Fortunately, I have other hobbies to keep it from being a 5.

 

[jasper]

me number 1. Now back in the early eighties that is different story. Oryan hoowho. Nice post

 

[StupidSmurf]

Running a continuous D&D campaign is the closest thing to having an electric train layout that includes real people.

 

[Sundragon2012]

I voted that it is a dedicated hobby because for me it is. I am a hypnotherapist who uses much of his free time writing marketing materials for my company and creating new CDs for customers/clients.

I NEED a creative outlet that doesn't require me to make money (though I am creating a setting to sell, if I break even I will be happy so long as my contribution is embraced by others) at it and D&D is something I do for the love of the game. I love this game. I am surprised how many folks said that computer games have better graphics than pen and paper because I have yet to see anything on a computer screen that is 1/100th as powerful, inspiring, compelling or fearsome as what I see in my mind's eye when I am preparing/running a session of D&D with my players. I am probably a frustrated fantasy author and though I am able to write well enough I am no author. With D&D I am able to tell stories with great heroes and horrid villians in a world that I created. No game engages the imagination the way RPing games do. No game puts you into situations of moral/metaphysical questioning the way RPing games do. No game allows you the near total freedom within a given milleu as RPing games do.

Damn do I love this game.


Chris

 

[shilsen]

I gave it a 4. For me it's a hobby, my primary creative outlet, and the equivalent of a gym for me to exercise mentally whenever I want.