Make or break?

[robinbloke]

It's sometimes interesting to take a step back and look at your life as it evolves and changes, people drift and mutate with extra limbs, friends come and go and you alter over time.

Crucial all consuming elements of your life become less important and focus shifts as time grows on and every now and then you cross a point where you think, "Well thats done for that, best move on.". I think Gencon this year will be like that for me, it'll either make or break gaming, although I'm bound to keep on tabletopping as I run a game at the moment.
But my interest in the whole thing seems to be waning slowly and soon it could be just a pile of books to Ebay...
That said I'm looking forward to the games davywavy is running, a bunch of my old LRP friends are going to be there and the beer, dice and pizza should be flowing once more.

But I still have my plans for dodding old age, oh yes. Once I hit crusty old fogey level I fully intend to exploit all the karma I've (hopefully) built up over the years by being a generally nice bloke... my plans include buying the biggest, fastest, flashest car I can and driving everywhere at 12 miles an hour, standing in queues at supermarkets and then asking at the last moment if the assistant can go and get me an item that I've previously hidden somewhere else, paying for everything in coupons, standing by zebra crossings and pressing the button six times before slowly sloooowly walking across the road, phoning up window fitting companies for my neighbours so that several arrive at the same time, writing letters to the parish council to complain about 'those young upstarts'. That and playing loud offensive oldy (80s) music so that my neighbourhood is driven mad.
I'm looking forward to it all.

Comments

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun.

I'm going to be one of those old ladies who pushes to the front of the bus queue and mutters loudly about the "youth of today", depsite having a purple rinse, wearing crimplene and being totally obnoxious myself.

Can you tell I've started practicing? ;)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

You'll be one of those indestructible grannies Eddy Izzard talks about :)

[angusabranson.livejournal.com]

I really wouldn't pin your gaming future on the success or failure of this years GenCon. Hopefully it'll be a great show for all those attending but it seems to have been so screwed-up this year one way or another I'm not expecting amazing reports back from it.
Have fun and, regardless, give gaming another shot once you get back :p

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

We'll see, I think my gaming will shrink down to small local tabletop games rather than LRP's and suchlike now... you're not going?

[angusabranson.livejournal.com]

Well, considering most of my gaming is on the 'small local tabletop games' level these days I can't complain. Just don't stop gaming for good alright! :p
I won't be at GenCon this year. Work isn't going as it clashes with another convention that we do in South London (which is closer to us, a lot cheaper, and we make mote money out of it - plus if we missed it for a year we might not be able to get back indue to demand for trade space!). We may do GenCon next year depending on a number of factors including location, dates, costs and the feedback we hear about this years show.
I *really* do hope it goes well but have my reservations.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Oh ar? Whats the London con then, sounds a more sensible option for the future if they're going to be putting gencon in the back end of beyond...

[angusabranson.livejournal.com]

The convention we're at this weekend is actually a wargames convention called SELWG. I would certainly reccomend checking out Dragonmeet at the beginning of December though as that is a great RPG and general gaming one-day convention. Ozzy has been a few times, as have some of the others so they can give you an unbiased view of it (Not that I am biased but I am one of the organisers of it).
Dragonmeet generally gets between 600-800 people through the doors.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

As famously stated by Blackadder: "I want to be young and handsome, and then I want to be middle-aged and rich, and then I want to be old and annoy everybody by pretending to be deaf."

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Hehe :) Yes indeed, a life template I can relate to.

Incidentally didn't get to say hello to your resplendent green self last night, so a belated "hello!"

[libellum.livejournal.com]

hello yourself :) I was only there for about an hour an a half - I got there late and disappeared early. So you were probably DJing for the entire time :)

[suzerain.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I know the feeling - the whole LRP scene has died a death of late for me, as other things have taken up more interest and activity. The whole WOD2 cash-in, ("requiem: the Angst", or whatever it's called) has'nt impressed me at all, and I suspect that it's going to be either a re-firing of interests, or ir's going to kill the hobby dead.

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and the plans for being a crotchety old git sound quite suitable.
May I also reccommend arranging with a dog pound to collect a wheezy, incontinent terrier each day that you need to go out, which will try to bite anyone and anything, or at least leave a wet puddle on their trouserlegs. it does'nt matter if it does'nt know you, or is uncontrollable, that's just a part of the standard deal for such pets.

and may I also suggest dental appointments at some stage to make a set of dental implants that allow you to get a horrendous whistling wheeze whenever you breathe - the sort that's guaranteed to drive everyone insane in the space of 2 minutes, when you've sat down nearby... course, you can remove the dental implant when you get back home and it won't annoy anyone any more.

And lastly, remember to get specialist training in taking up at least two parking spaces in any congested carpark, and how to make maximum damage to other people's cars with denting and colliding, (My father's taken the advanced course in that bit.), before blaming the other drivers. And don;t forget to remove your read-view mirrors. it's other people's duty to get out the way of you...

J

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

small tabletop games? Sitting around with a few friends, mit beer and snackage, having a laugh whilst playing a game?

sounds awful :p

It's really not that strange to reach a point where you feel little motivation to go to a game and have to deal with people you don't know, may not like, and invariably one or two who are just a pain.

Life is what you make it, as it seems, is RP. I always personally enjoyed games where the ST has a 'because I say so.. now shut up before your character suffers a brain haemorage' clause ;)