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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9856244" data-attributes="member: 6879661">This thread might not be what you are expecting. I’m not going to tell you that everything that WotC does is amazing and we’re living in a WotC utopia of TTRPG gaming. It is about why it’s important to recognize what we have and not focus on what we don’t have.Happiness matters, it enhances our physical health by boosting immune systems & can even help us live longer. It improves mental health, increasing resilience & reducing stress & anxiety. From a TTRPG community point of view happiness can improve productivity & creativity. Whereas the reverse, is a blight that can have serious negative health and societal effects.The problem is heightened happiness is fleeting. The truth is WotC could make your favorite product exactly as you want it tomorrow and it would make you happy for a short while. Even if they kept making those kinds of products, eventually your happiness would return to its original state as you became used to them and started to expect them. By the same token if WotC released the opposite of what you want your happiness might plummet but would similarly return to its base state after initial sadness. You’d move on, find alternatives.This is captured in a study done with lottery winners and folks that had lost their ability to walk that showed that in the beginning there was a big gap between how those people felt in happiness. Over time people returned to their baseline. In the end there really wasn’t much of difference in happiness between one group and the next. Baseline happiness is hard to change long term either way.There was one thing people could do to meaningfully and measurably raise their baseline happiness. Recognizing that…These are the good daysThose simple words are something we should be saying to ourselves and each other as often as possible. Our happiness really matters. Whether Darksun gets released this year or not really doesn’t in the grand scheme of things.this thread isn’t a place to come to post about why you think these are the End Times. Save that for twitter and the morning papers. Tell us why you think for the wider community these are the good days. This isn’t about boasting about how brilliant you are (though you are brilliant) but about acknowledging things we can be grateful for. That have improved our lives in some way. Feel free to bring real life into play but let’s avoid the normal no-go areas.PapersLottery winners and accident victims, Brickman 1978Counting blessings vs burdens, Emmons and McCullogh 2003</blockquote>

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