No looking back. This is a geek post.
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.
January 25th, 2006 at 3:54 am
Note to David: tomorrow we will be at Spam-A-Lot. No time for trips to the mall to buy clothes and/or LSAT study materials. Spam spam spam spam! You can be an adult on Thursday. Note to David’s faithful readers: I tried to get him to include this information in his post, but apparently this blog is about “him” and not “us.” (I’ll be damned. I sure get a lot of flack when “he” doesn’t make it into “my” blog.) Anyway, in case there was doubt… I quit D&D also. The couple that quits together… sits together? on Sundays? when they used to play D&D? Further information omitted by Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave Sir David: we will still be playing D&D with our other friends. The ones with whom we also do other things. Ricky and Sondra. Basically the problem was, this particular campaign was too much effort.