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Message: <blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3484149" data-attributes="member: 40894">This thread reminds me of the movie, Dragonslayer.I am 38, and I don't game, but only because there are no people around me that do so. I have a son, 8 years old, and I ran a solo adventure for him not long ago--rules-light--and he really enjoyed it. He's only a little older than I was when I first saw the game, and when I see him having fun, I start to smile, even if I have had the worst freakin' day possible up to then. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> My wife doesn't get it, but I love the game.The people that I consider my closest friends live two hours away, and my nearest sibling is nearly 3 hours away. It takes an 8 1/2 hour drive to visit my mom and dad. My youngest sister is no less than 20 hours away, in Minnesota, and probably more like 24 hours away.My game books are in the shelf to my left as I type this. If my hobby has devolved--or E-volved, as the case may be--into rules tinkering and collecting of game books, then so be it. One of these days, therell be a game, or there won't. Either way, I'm still kickin', and I'm still getting the good out of what I'm doing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As to having to deal with what people want for their characters, maybe try playing instead of refereeing, for awhile. It could reset your outlook on dealing with limitations placed on you by DMs. Maybe not being in charge will free up your mind and heart so you can enjoy yourself again.Way back when I was a kid, I would always try and hang out with my brother and his friends, he's 6 years older than me, and that's a big difference, when you're six. My mother would always say, "You need to make some friends your own age." I really don't mean to sound like this sounds, but maybe that's something you should do. The game, when I was playing, was always a chance to socialize with like-minded people. Maybe the group you're in with is not so "like-minded", and that's what's bringing you down.The reason that I come to these boards is to interact with similar intellects. My kid is really amazing, but there's 30 years' difference in our experience levels, and sometimes, I just need to talk to a grownup about something that's of interest to me. And, like I said, my wife just doesn't get gaming.I hope that I've helped you, somehow. Just remember, if you cut off all of your means of self-expression, you are taking the first steps toward depression by inviting unalleviated stress, which creates cortizol, which shrinks your brain and makes you fat. AT THE SAME TIME!-Steve</blockquote>

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