Like any good geek, I've played a number of different games - the most notable being Dungeons and Dragons, Marvel Super Heroes, AFMBE and, most recently, Call of Cthulhu. I love playing RPGs - the freedom it gives you, the time you can forget about your normal life and just have fun. To me, there's nothing like it.
I don't know why I feel burned out. I'm not part of any gaming group that meets regularly (or at all at the moment). For the most part, the only time I get to play RPGs is at the Origins gaming fair; usually running them as opposed to playing. But even as the deadline for submitting games came, I felt no desire to do so.
At Origins I usually run a number of Call of Cthulhu games - sometimes enough to just get a badge (around 16 hours worth) but in the past I've run close to 10 games in 3 days. It was fun. I loved doing it. But this year I couldn't get excited about running any games. I still could have submitted enough to get a badge, but that wouldn't be fair to the players. Nobody wants to have a GM who isn't into their game - it makes the experience suck for everyone.
It was at this time that I came to the realization that for whatever reason, I was burned out on RPGs. I decided I didn't want to feel like this. After all, who wants to hate a hobby that they previously loved to do?
I decided what I needed to do was "reboot" myself back into RPGs. I need to take a step back and rediscover why I love the hobby. I need to re-experience the games and the fun it brings me. I need to start back at the beginning.
This blog is going to have two purposes. The first is to document how I try to get back into gaming. The second is to be used in the process of returning to gaming - writing down the memories of what made it fun, the experiences I've had, and so on.
Here's to a return to gaming.
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