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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8787039" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Actually playing D&D is one of my least common D&D related activities, lol. Outside of actually playing D&D, my most common activities are generally character creation and world-building/story design. I'm one of those folks who simply can't turn off their excess creativity so I'm constantly creating new characters or building worlds and playing out various adventures in them. As a trained actor with interests in psychology, sociology, archaeology, and history, I'm always exploring various angles in my head for how a specific character would behave in a situation, how a certain nation or culture would develop given its history or what sort of geological history would form a specific kind of terrain, etc...  I love posing myself "What if?" and "How would?" questions and following them out logically to see where they go or trying to reverse engineer a particular situation to figure out how it came about.Basically, whenever I'm not focused on some sort of life task or other form of entertainment, my brain constantly spits out new people, places and character dialogue. A quick mental estimate of my 40 years of D&D says I've easily got about two hundred PCs I've either completely statted out or at least have a clear vision of in my head, and probably about 50 clearly-defined NPCs.I also like the mechanical aspects of the game, so I like going through the rulebooks to improve my system mastery and find interesting synergies in various game elements, particularly character optimization.I previously spent a lot of time doing a lot of image manipulation to create character portraits (which was really a separate hobby all on it's own), but haven't done anything with it for a long time.Apart from the constant flood of new content pouring out of my brain, though, my biggest game-related activity is painting and collecting miniatures - which, again, is another hobby all on its own. (I rarely ever paint or sculpt figures for use as my personal characters or for tabletop use.) As painter, I primarily paint Reaper Miniatures figures. As a collector, I primarily collect the old Ral Partha Official 2nd Ed. AD&D 11-XXX series figures, as well as various Ral Partha, Grenadier and TSR box sets.I also haphazardly collect previous-edition books and modules, and D&D-themed toys, video games and other merchandise. In particular, I have a great many of the LJN action figures and toys produced in the 1980's, as well as the first twenty or so of the old Endless Quest books.</blockquote>

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