RPG A Day: Day 28--Close

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RPG A Day 2020: Day 28—Close

There are two ways to pronounce today’s prompt and I’m sure it was done by design. RPG A Day will soon come to a close vs. we are very close to wrapping up RPG a Day.

I have to say that most of my responses have had a negative vibe this year. Hard to avoid it what with everything going on in the world. This one is no different for better or worse.

I feel that I am closer to walking away from hobby than I’ve been in years. That’s not to say that I won’t come back at some point or that I will stop following the updates and taking an interest in upcoming projects—even participating in next year’s RPG A Day. I think my daughter is about a year or two away from being ready for a full on introduction to the hobby and hopefully she’ll bring some friends with her and I’ll be the gaming dad, but that’s really all I see on the horizon.

Some say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it has been my experience as an overseas teacher, that for many things the more proper saying is out of sight, out of mind. I used to be a big NFL fan, but now some 11 years into the overseas career, I find that I rarely watch aside from the Super Bowl and I have no plans of even watching that this year. The separation from the latest RPG group due to the Wuhan Flu has finally steered me in a similar direction with table-top gaming. The time that I didn’t invest—I still refuse to call it time wasted—in playing and preparing to play has been spent on other endeavors. I’ve come to the realization that we need to redeem the time, and I’m not sure that playing RPGs is the best way to do that.

I’m going to link here the story of another DM who felt similar. Very interesting story. I don’t want to put out the wrong message. I love RPGs—I find nothing satanic or wrong in a Christian sense about them—and will likely come back or never fully leave, but listening to him—and I did come across this some years ago—gave me a lot to think about. There is nothing wrong with RPGs in and of themselves, but they are a time sink, and I don’t think anyone can deny it.