Random nerd-post: I miss gaming

[sholio]

Getting my dice out to generate prompts for the Genficathon this weekend (... I'm such a Luddite) made me really miss RPGs. It's been over a decade since I did any gaming at all, and unfortunately my last gaming experience was a rather unpleasant one. I made the mistake of getting talked into gaming with some friends-of-friends on the local military base -- it wasn't nightmarishly bad or anything, just uncomfortable, because they were all guys and they all knew each other and I didn't fit with the group at all.

It took me awhile to even want to game again, and I'm still wary of getting involved with a gaming group that I don't know. But I do miss it. I don't know what game I'd want to play, though. My sister and I toyed around, awhile back, with making up our own set of rules for Stargate gaming, based off the Palladium system rules, but we never finished it.

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[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

I soooooo hear you!!!! *gazes longly at dusty dice* Yea, I'd use any excuse to use them too. Hell, I still browse all the pretty new sparkly dice colors at Comic Con :)

I also sooo hear you on the problem game with a military group. OMG, my one bad game was when me and a friend tried to hook up with a local group over summer holidays when we were in college. Lets just say our styles were so far off, it was amazing. They were after world conquering - the character is unimportant games. We left there shaking our heads, clutching our characters and vowing to never do that again.

The problem with our local group - the DM's all had kids. *sigh* Or should I say L.I.F.E. We kept gaming for a while when the kids were super small, only a few. Then tried trading off. Now, we've just let it die for years and well, hard to pick back up.

[sholio]

Yeah, I don't think I'd realized prior to that experience just how much difference it makes if everyone in the game is on the same page ... or not.

Life is pretty much what happened to me too. My gamer friends moved away; *I* moved away; everyone got too busy with other things. But I do miss it. Maybe one of these days ... :D