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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atom Again" data-source="post: 1762439" data-attributes="member: 16489">I'm 36, married with a two-year-old daughter, and full-time teacher and part-time writer.  In short, I'm a busy guy. Long gone are the days when I would sleep in until noon, work on my master's thesis for a few hours, then play video games for a few more hours.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> My problem is that I've begun to see a disturbing tendency in myself, a tendency to what I would call "Gaming ADD".  I have too much stuff.  I bounce around between GURPS and D20 Modern and Call of Cthulhu and Dark*Matter and D&D.  I can't focus.  There's too much going on in my head and no time to process it all.Just when I get started planning one campaign (a D20 Modern/Future-based RIFTS excursion to the Arctic) I find myself thinking about doing something else (a GURPS-based Resident Evil); that new idea is quickly eclipsed by yet another (D&D 3.0 Planescape, with an excursion to Ravenloft).When I was in my 20's, perhaps I could do all this.  In fact, I did.  <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=":)" />  But I can't anymore.I'm thinking about a radical solution, and I'm not sure if it will work, so I'm hoping to get some input from you good folks.  I've decided that I need to decide what is really important in my life.  What really matters.  Gaming is one of those things, but it isn't the top thing, not anymore (if indeed it ever was--in university it always seemed to play second fiddle to video games <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ).As a way of keeping myself sane and trying to focus my attention, I'm thinking of selling off all my gaming stuff except for ONE game--D&D.  With Greyhawk, Planescape, and Ravenloft, D&D should keep me happy for all my gaming needs.  And if I get the urge for post-apocalypse or zombie horror or modern conspiracy, I will just shrug and say, "Can't do everything, bub."  Then I'll rent a zombie flick or watch the X-Files to get my fix.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Is this feasible, just focusing on one game to try to preserve sanity and simplify a busy life? Can anyone relate to what I'm saying?Help!</blockquote>

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