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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9892863" data-attributes="member: 11760">[USER=54840]@SlyFlourish[/USER] talked on an episode recently about how RPGs are actually multiple overlapping hobbies.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Playing the game is one hobby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reading RPG books is a hobby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Collecting RPG stuff is a hobby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Painting miniatures is a hobby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Creating RPG worlds is a hobby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Creating and publishing RPG content is a hobby for most of the people who do it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arguing about RPGs online is a hobby</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Watching/listening to actual plays is a hobby</li> </ul>I'm with you, [USER=467]@Reynard[/USER], in that playing is the most important of those hobbies to me, but I also think that Mike's point -- which honestly hadn't occurred to me until I heard it phrased the way he did -- that those other parallel and overlapping hobbies have equal value to those who enjoy them is worth remembering.A large part of that list isn't of any interest to me, but conversely, I'm sure the Warhammer and Reaper minis enthusiasts would find a lot of what I do to be a boring waste of time for them.The play may be the thing, but it's not the only thing.That said, it'd be great to have products labelled in some fashion as whether they're play-first or reader-first, etc. I find some of the wall of text books out there unmanageable at the table, but conversely, there are readers who prefer that to a more spare format, since the reading is the thing for them.</blockquote>

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