I quit DnD five minutes ago (actually probably by the time i finish writing this it will be a couple hours ago). It phases me more then I thought it would. Something about the imagination in the back of my head that screams out in agony because of this.
I play video games a lot. Less then i used to of course, but that is because of my new job. Not due to personal will power. Anywho, i digress. I spent a lot of my life recently planning out characters for a game we play. When it came down to it, i saw my ideas about the character raped and mutilated into fortuitious mush. You see in my mind i would have a mage that drew on magic like a crack addict. And since he drew on the magic so much it ate his body like food.
So I would have a very skinny somalian character that has ribs poking out of his stomach, but all in all his body would still function on some sort of stable level. His use of magic though allowed him to pull and create new forms of magic that were stronger and more powerful.
In the end what i got was a maniac psychopath that could use magic, but it was a different kind of magic. Not to mention the character’s degredations in game mechanics meant i usually couldn’t move around. He could take literally one five foot step where other would take 30 feet steps. He was made blind, which means he has no physical input for sensory information. This of course meant that anything he attempted to “learn” had to be told to him. It was rediculous.
But this is not what my post is about.
I could bitch about my ideas being changed drastically, but that is neither here nor there.
The bottom line is that best times i had with the game were when I was planning out my character, allowing my mind to organize the character data on a sheet of paper and imaginging all the cool ass situations he could get into.
So DnD was attempted, and failed horribly. At least hard-core DnD.
Tomorrow i’m going to the mall and buying some new pants, a study book for the LSAT, and a a couple shirts.
Another hint…
I’m growing up even faster.