Gaming is becoming a hard hobby... nowadays it is so much easier to be entertained by videogames and movies that RPGs, wargaming or even playing plain ol' board games that they are becoming increasingly uncommon. And even then when you find other gamers it seems you have a 50% chance to encounter someone you won't want to play with in the 1st place (ie munchkins, rule lawyers, bad losers/winners, etc). A couple of years ago I moved to a new town for a job and I looked at the local gaming scene. I had the choice between the Games Workshop crowd (mainly 11-yr old kids) and the local gaming "clique" that felt that their membership of 8 was large enough already. Then you have the just weird people; like the time I placed an ad at the FLGS and some guy calls up. He had a really whiny voice and I remember I had a hard time restraining myself from laughing. Now for some reason he suddenly started a long diatribe out of the blue against Battletech, saying it was this and that, yaddya, etc. The funny thing was, the ad was for bloody Warhammer (!).
Geez, the two last RPGs have played were 2-3 years ago; a few ICON games and some Call of Cthulu. I do play the occasional wargame in solo mode like Starmada. Sorry for the digression.
Edit: Ha! I just remembered; lets not forget the effects of on-line video gaming. Apparently it is THE hot new trend. Why have to go to the trouble of GMing a game of Dungeons&Dragons, call the players up, having to make it to the game, etc when all you can do is turn your Playstation and join an onile game sitting on your couch.
Last edited by Snake_Plissken; 07-30-2004 at 08:50 PM.
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