{"id":3682,"date":"2002-10-08T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2002-10-08T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2002-10-08T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2002-10-08T19:09:06","slug":"wish_about_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/08\/wish_about_the.html","title":{"rendered":"WISH about the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Game WISH<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the gaming you are doing lately, what do you miss from earlier games? What works so much better you never looked back? Three examples?<\/p>\n

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What I miss:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Character-driven gaming, at least in F2F games. Between Living stuff and just how things work out even in our non-Living campaigns, the characters just seem a lot more like cardboard set pieces than they used to be. Part of this may be lack of prep time on my part, but I think part of it is that games seem more chaotic (less focused) than they used to be — a problem discussed in an earlier WISH. (PBeM games are more character-driven, certainly.)\n
  2. I miss staying up all night, either playing until the wee hours of dawn or working on rules and campaign stuff until then. That’s both due to declining CON and increased demands on my time.\n
  3. Drinking a lot of beer. I used to drink a lot more beer, and enjoy it. Now I drink more than a couple of beers and I can’t focus on my damned character sheet. Feh.<\/ol>\n

    What I don’t miss:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Doing it all by hand. Excel (not to mention other, more sophisticated tools) rock, as do game company message boards, e-mail, etc.\n
    2. AD&D r1 and the other RPG silliness of the early 80s. Arduin Grimoire, anyone?\n
    3. Really having people wonder if I was a Satanist. Or, worse, one of those gamers — the scrawny, pimply kind in black t-shirts with no social graces and a tendency to drone on and on about incredibly esoteric stuff. Mercifully, I am no longer scrawny.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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